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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Experts ” have recently placed Foursquare valuations in the $50M to $70M range. I think this is low, and I also think it is too soon for Foursquare to sell. I don’t think so. More on 4sq in a moment.).

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Stand By for a Foursquare Superuser

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Perhaps it doesn’t deserve the status of a combat fighter pilot, but Foursquare has upgraded me to “Superuser&# status, which means: “you gain the ability to edit our venue database (fixing incorrect addresses, suggesting duplicate venues, marking places as “closed&# , matching venues with their Twitter accounts).

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare. Brightkite 2.0

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“I’m At Safeway.” So what? The Problem of Trivial Updates

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Are trivial Foursquare Twitter updates especially annoying, or just more of the same? Twitter was built for trivial status updates. Remember, URL shortening wasn't built into Twitter at the beginning.) Even today, everything on Twitter can be divided into two categories: status updates and shared content.

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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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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter recently rolled out its Geotagging capability on a limited basis.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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They search social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, etc.; Social media and careers are covered by prediction #6: “In 2009 we saw a couple of interesting surveys by respected organizations indicating that recruiters are increasingly using or planning to use social media to find and investigate talent.