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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Aren’t you glad they still offer a “Poke” feature?)

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. Foursquare.

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Social Media News Ticker: Crowdfunding Coming To YouTube Soon

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: Facebook. Related Stories Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches Mobile Ad Network, Snapchat Adds Text Chat & Video Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Video Ads Expand Outside U.S.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

And, Street Bump is a mobile application that lets people improve their own neighbourhoods. But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. 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 Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. Facebook will make the service available in more countries and on more mobile platforms in the future. Facebook has of course also taken privacy into consideration.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. Facebook will make the service available in more countries and on more mobile platforms in the future. Facebook has of course also taken privacy into consideration.

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Why does Facebook hate us?

Freelance Social Media

Of course, we cannot forget the massive backlash over privacy issues. The business side of Facebook is losing control of its brand and the user side is losing control of its privacy. Featuring the Thesis Wufoo Skin WordPress Admin Movements like QuitFacebookDay.com are popping up on the web.

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