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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. The National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee says GPS has “accuracy of 7.8 How Does It Know Where I Am?

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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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Facebook Places Explained

Mindjumpers

Within the coming years, geosocial functions will likely become an integral part of our lives, as more and more people get smart phones, tablets and cameras with in-built GPS data to track our lives. Similar Posts: Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places Foursquare: How Does It Work?

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Find Twitter followers by location 2011

Laurel Papworth

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. Many Twitter mobile phone clients that use the GPS location of the phone may auto-update the Twitter bio from the phone’s location based software.

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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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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. hours/week on social networks and 2.2 By the way: did you know that more people own an iPhone than people use Twitter? hours on email.

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Why I Did Not Freak Out Over My Stolen iPhone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

With my iPhone 3GS inside, wallet and credit cards, and a few coupons and lip balm. To me, it was an opportunity to let technology work for me, and of course, get a new iPhone 4! My Tech and Internet Guardian Angels Mobile Me Account I always purchase Mobile Me alongside my iPhone service. I was not freaking out.

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