by Shannon Johnson
August 23, 2010
Something substantial happened in the sphere-o-social-media this past week – Facebook’s rumored geolocation “check-ins” feature finally cropped up. It’s called Facebook Places. But you probably knew that already since it’s likely that you’ve recently seen a story about a friend’s location appear in your News Feed. Or maybe you know of it because Facebook alerted [...]
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by Katie Van Domelen
January 20, 2010
This last week, Yelp announced an update to their mobile apps, allowing “check-ins.” This announcement is an attempt by Yelp to take advantage of the growing popularity of geo-location based networks like Foursquare, Gowalla and MyTown. All of these location based social networks operate off the same basic concept — Users sign-up and connect with [...]
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