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The all new Foursquare

Sherrilynne Starkie

Foursquare has been around for a few years and has always been a bit of location-based fun. The social network boasts a community of 20 million users, but never really seemed to go mainstream. But that’s set to change with yesterday’s relaunch of the ‘All new Foursquare ‘ Image via CrunchBase.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Save for Later’ Reading Feature, Twitter Beefs Up Security

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Buffer: Facebook. Foursquare. Social Media News Ticker age gate Buffer Facebook Facebook video autoplay Foursquare security TV Conversation Targeting Twitter'

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare.

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Facebook Launches Questions

Mindjumpers

Tweet Yesterday Facebook has launched Facebook Questions, which allows users and pages to post a Question to friends or a Facebook community. Latest with Places to match location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla. But the new feature will hardly threaten Quora’s user base. How it works.

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4 Ways To Tap Into Local Markets

Harp Interactive

Foursquare allows for check-ins. Google Buzz nearby mobile feature serves up a list about places, and users can read Buzz info about those places from others who are both in and outside their networks. BrightKite Gowalla and Loopt allow users to check in at locations, and the ability to share that activity among a network of friends.

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135 Million Users Are Active in Google+ Stream

The Realtime Report

The blog post also announced new features for Google+, showing a continued effort to make the social network more appealing to users. Google+ has been around for well over a year, but user numbers still pale in comparison to competitor Facebook’s over 1 billion monthly active user base ( AdWeek ). What do you think?

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Why I Choose Whrrl For My Location Based Time | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

I’ve been wanting to write more about these services, but not until I was able to really give them a good try and for the past few weeks, I’ve immersed myself into really 3 choices, Facebook Places , Foursquare and Whrrl. It’s the only one of the three that truly has a community feel to it. So why I’m I on board the Whrrl train?