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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Citing privacy concerns and not wanting strangers to know where I was every moment I checked in to a location, I deleted my Foursquare account 14 months ago. Forrester Research recently surveyed 37,000 mobile users and in its report issued this month, a mere 2% of those users had Foursquare accounts. There are many questions.

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Mashable Summit and Foursquare Dennis Crowley

Laurel Papworth

Foursquare announces new World Cup partnership with CNN. Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley on live at the moment. BTW they’ve left secret locations for people to find badges around the world, for the World Cup. AJ Bombers sold 30% more burgers through a Foursquare special. Foursquare already have revenue!

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

If I wanted to know these things, we’d be connected on Foursquare so I could follow along as you cruise through town going to meetings and running errands. For each stop in your day, you check-in with Foursquare , Gowalla , Brightkite , Loopt , Whrrl and others. Still, it is your choice. Seriously, stop it! Please, stop it! .&#

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. Daniel proposed that we set up Foursquare style badges to encourage staff to contribute and use the internet.

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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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The Voice of the Social Employee Inside the Firewall

Direct Marketing Observations

Taken a step further if you were to look at Gowalla and Foursquare , and why they are/were successful-it’s based on the notion of a reward system-earning badges for “checking in”. But I digress with this parting question.

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What Websites Are You the One True Fan of?

Justin Levy

If you’re like me, you’ll immediately think of the different services that are available such as Foursquare , Gowalla and Facebook Places. As with many of the location-based services currently available, you can win different badges and also the OneTrueFan ownership of any website.