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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

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How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? With the introduction of Foursquare and other location-based services, we started publishing our precise location data, and now with Blippy , our friends can see our credit card purchases as we make them.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Tags: Social Media Brightkite check-in check.in

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Stand By for a Foursquare Superuser

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And are those of us risking our lives every day on the social media front lines any less deserving of respect? The creators of Foursquare are tapping into basic human behavior. Foursquare plays to both of these, and many others. It may not be as exciting as the life of a fighter pilot, but Foursquare is clever and addicting.

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Foursquare Driving Media Paranoia Fun Fest

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Mainstream media are having a field day scaring consumers into thinking that criminals are preying on users of social networks that disclose their geographic locations. The idea is that you “check in&# with a service like Brightkite or Foursquare , letting your friends know you are at a restaurant, the office, the gym, etc.,

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare. Brightkite. Brightkite 2.0

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Asymmetry of Expectations in Social Network Friending

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When you choose to add someone on Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare, do you stop to think about how they might react to your invitation? And when you receive a request, what kinds of reactions have you had? There are many emotional responses to a friend request, and often, an imbalance.

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Rally, I Can Quit You: My Failed Social Networking Experiment

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A Foursquare veteran, I decided a. I didn't intend for it to be an experiment, but I just realized that my brief fling with Rally (alternately called Rally Up), was one of unrequited love. I had some hopes for Rally that weren't realized, due mostly to unreasonable expectations on my part.