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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks. This gave the social network a true exclusive feel and made people long for access.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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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. Isn’t that how social networking works? Connect on LinkedIn today.

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New Photo-sharing App Called “Color”. The Next Big Thing?

Mindjumpers

Recently, the new social networking photo sharing app called Color was launched. The new app is launched on iPhone and Adroid, and behind this new social networking app we find former Lala CEO Bill Nguyen and former BillShrink CEO Peter Pham. What you can do with Color.

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Find Twitter followers by location 2011

Laurel Papworth

Someone asked in comments on my blog – this one – “how to find followers or users on Twitter by location?&# Or based on the phone GPS co-ordinates that are sent with the tweet to Twitter. Doesn’t work if they are on a computer or they block GPS location on their phone. Self proclaimed. Copy that link.

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Why Facebook and Twitter are Old News

Ari Herzog

As long as you have a mobile device with GPS identification and the ability to visit a website, you can play. The social networking icons are not flashed on the screen. When is it the right time for you to branch out and evangelize other social tools? Is this a game changer in how brands market themselves with technology?

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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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