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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Foursquare, for example, runs only on iPhone and Android, though other versions are under development. Brightkite.

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Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School

Convince & Convert

Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer. He’s been great, taught me and our entire agency a ton about how to develop and deploy social media for our clients and own efforts to grow business.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

And Yelp is an interesting player in this market, boasting a huge user base (huge by Foursquare standards) that it brought into the location-based world with an iPhone app earlier this year. The Yelp iPhone app alone had around 1.25 Tags: Social Media Brightkite check-in check.in Wagers anyone? *

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MingleBird – The Next Big Thing?

Mindjumpers

I believe the last application (not being an actual game) to come out of this triangle that has turned big is LBS applications like Foursquare and Gowalla , with a call for human interaction, a game design to win mayor ships, badges etc – and all powered through your mobile. MingleBird – a mobile socializing application.

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How To Create a Conference Badge Page

Bare Feet Studios

You can use FTP to create a custom directory for your badges or you can also use the image up-loader that comes with your blog site. This is what you would place in your Event’s Badges page (assuming you replace the appropriate URLs and file names as outlined above: Step 5. See the PodCamp Hawaii Badges page for examples.

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The 12 Startups I’ve Invested In and Why

Convince & Convert

If you want your employees (or your team) to share something in social, or your employees want to recommend content to the marketing hub, etc. This is a corner of the social media world that will be accelerating quickly, I believe. You’ll see an example of those disclosure “badges” at the bottom of this post.

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Pinterest App Pins: How, and What, to Use Them For

Devumi

All the iPhone lovers out there, and those who want to be marketing to iPhone users, this is for you! The Pinterest app pins will have a familiar look to them – they look like the “App Store” badge that you’re used to seeing everywhere else. Pinterest app pins – How do they work? Nothing else changes visually.

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