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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These terrifying statistics make me wonder if it’s time to change given that our privacy is starting to diminish. After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks.

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Has Social Media Killed Off Privacy?

Laurel Papworth

What with Tom Tom selling our GPS data to the police that then book us for speeding, and facial recognition connecting our faces to our social networks and the privacy implications that entails, are we thinking enough about the big issues in our rush to upload, tag and share content in online communities?

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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Brightkite.

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10 social media sites, blogs and links you might have missed

Direct Marketing Observations

Social Media Marketing GPS: A New Media Roadmap For Creating A Social Media Strategy. From one of our weekly Tweetchats hosted by JD Lasica on Facebook and Privacy , this link was shared: Facebook Backlash Sparks Transparency Tools which has a couple of really good tools in the article. Fan Page List has all the data.

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Is Marketing About To Get Really Creepy Or Really Good?

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Applications range from step-by-step indoor navigation, to product-level retail customer engagement, to proximity-based social networking." " If you can get beyond the marketing jargon, WiFiSLAM is, essentially, GPS for the indoors. Having GPS capabilities inside businesses is still in its nascent stage.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?