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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee says GPS has “accuracy of 7.8 The National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee says GPS has “accuracy of 7.8 Foursquare.

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Repositioning Through Social Media: The Conan O’Brien-Case

Mindjumpers

A huge orange blimp – hot air balloon – with a build in GPS has been circling around major cities on the east coast during the month of October enabling Foursquare-users to earn a Conan-BlimpSpotter badge as well as seeing images on Flickr. • A Twitter account as we described in our previous Conan-post , which is now close to 1.8

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

Convince & Convert

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Her latest posts include Covering Your Geo-Location Bases: Using Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yahoo & Facebook to Help Customers Find You , Think Like a Rockstar , and Social Media Introduction. Kristi is the chief mischief maker of Fresh ID, creator of Intefy, opinionated user/brand experience designer, and customer advocate.

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