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UF partners with Foursquare to share campus lore
Nelson, a first-year master of fine arts in acting student, earned the title by “checking in” to UF on the social networking website Foursquare more times than anyone else in the past 60 days. He said he likes the idea that UF now has a partnership …
Magazine Touts Foursquare Kings
Time Out New York’s newest Foursquare effort underscores how increasingly serious the magazine and other media companies are about combining traditional publishing with mobile.
FourSquare Allows New Yorkers to ‘Treat Yo Self’
Foursquare, the social-networking app that allows you to “check in” to venues, become a mayor, meet up with your friends, and find out which Starbucks locations have been masturbated in, now has a new crowd-sourcing function.
First-Ever Location-Based Awards Presented at The LOCALS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nov 03, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — JiWire, the leading location-based mobile media company reaching the on-the-go audience, and Geo-Loco, the future of geo-location services, today announced the winners of the first annual …
Mobile advertisers paying 4x more for location-based impressions
Mobile advertisers are increasingly prizing location-based ads, according to real-time bidding exchange Nexage, which said mobile publishers and developers are getting 3.8 times more for eCPMs, or ad impressions, that include location data in the last …
New emergency information system will save lives and money
The Location Based Response System is a mapping system with over 195000 addresses. The data base will make EMS response more efficient and provide better routing of roads across the country as well more detailed information about what’s at a specific …
More Than Half Of Mobile Developers Use Location Based Services In Their Apps …
Fifty-four percent of developers working on apps for mobile devices are including location based and mapping services into those apps, according to a survey of over 400 mobile developers recently released to subscribers.
Facebook Warnings!
There are many ways Facebook can get you into trouble. Here are the latest ones, culled from this week’s news: Beware friend requests from unknown hotties who have lots of friends in common with you.
BofA, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Galleon, BP in Court News
Paul Ceglia, who claims he has a 2003 contract that gives him half of Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg’s holdings, was ordered to return to the US from Ireland to locate evidence in his case.
Facebook Is Most Popular Social Network for All Ages; LinkedIn Is Second [STUDY]
Of all the social networks, Facebook is the only one that knows no generational limits. From grandparents to teenagers, Facebook – the largest of the social networks – attracts users of all ages. A recent study by Forrester found that of US adults …
