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Dec 08

How to Protect Yourself on Mobile Check-In Applications

By Kelsey Jones

foursquare thumb How to Protect Yourself on Mobile Check In ApplicationsMobile check-in and geo-location applications like Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp, and Facebook Places can be great for finding out where friends are, gathering badges, and even earning specials. However, for people who aren’t careful, mobile check-in applications can pose a risk, especially if the person in danger of being followed (e.g. via an ex-boyfriend).

However, there are several things a user can do to still take advantage of mobile check-in application perks while being safe and aware of what they are posting online.

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Dec 08

What is Next For Location-Based Social Applications?

Gowalla announced last week that they integrated FourSquare and Facebook Places’ APIs into their iPhone app, making it easy for users to check into FourSquare, Gowalla, Facebook, and even Twitter all at once.

Take a Good Look in the Mirror, FourSquare
Mashable claimed that the “ball is now in FourSquare’s court”, as FourSquare could simply ban Gowalla from accessing their API. However, I believe that this is a bad idea. In order to use Gowalla’s new integration, users will still have to sign up for a FourSquare account if they want to post on FourSquare. Instead of focusing on how they can prevent this integration, FourSquare should instead take a long, hard, look on why they didn’t do it first. Maybe they thought Gowalla wasn’t even in their realm of competition. Maybe they believed that their over 4 million users would never go over to Gowalla.

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Sep 02

Three ‘Facebook Places’ Tips for Businesses

facebook places Three Facebook Places Tips for BusinessesNo, that wasn’t a typo. There’s actually a thing called ‘Facebook Places’. It’s the latest and greatest feature from the giant social networking site. ‘Places’ is an application that is targeted at those with web-enabled phones. Similar to the Google Maps Profile & Foursquare, it is a way to virally share where someone is physically located.

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