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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. And there’s something nice about simple, uncluttered, standalone apps, particularly in a mobile environment. I don’t think so. Wagers anyone? *

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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

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If you haven’t set your Facebook privacy settings properly, your status updates will be visible to everyone. (It’s If you worked at Nokia and told your friend in the cafe that a certain competitive mobile phone sucked, you would not be in legal jeopardy. It’s unclear what everyone means.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. As the late Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan said, “Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.&#. How Does It Know Where I Am? Brightkite. With Brightkite 2.0,