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Foursquare Reaches 10 Million Users

by Shabbir Akhtar on 21. Jun, 2011 in Infographic

Foursquare now has 10 million users. Amongst all the location based social networks, Foursquare is the first one to achieve this mark. In the official blog post, Foursquare released an infographic to celebrate this feat.
The infographic shows how the user base of Foursquare kept on increasing over the time. In march 2009, there were only [...]

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Foursquare Checkins Become Secure, Defaults To HTTPS Across Its Platforms

by Shabbir Akhtar on 08. Apr, 2011 in Uncategorized

There are websites where secure data encryption is a must. A good example here is PayPal.com, a site with which you share your banking and financial details. Another example in this context is any email server, which encrypts data while logging in. The reason is the same; safety of your privacy.
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Foursquare Gearing Up For SXSW

by Shabbir Akhtar on 24. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools

This year’s SXSW event, scheduled to take place in Austin, Texas is just weeks away. Many startups are lined to come up with something exciting in the event. Foursquare, which was once such a startup and lucky enough to get the breakthrough, is also tying its shoelaces to join the race. Foursquare has a new [...]

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Facebook Places Crushes Foursquare As Facebook Takes Down Google

by Shabbir Akhtar on 23. Feb, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter, social media marketing

Facebook doesn’t want to leave anything on the plate for others. The Facebook Places feature was launched not more than five months back, but within such a short period of time, they started outbalancing the so called pros in the arena like Foursquare and Gowalla.

That’s what Financial Times points out in their official blog. The [...]

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Twitter And Foursquare Add More Languages To Woo New Users

by Shabbir Akhtar on 16. Feb, 2011 in Twitter

The success of a social network lies in its accessibility. To make Twitter more accessible across the globe, the company is introducing a new product — Twitter Translation Center. In their official blog, Twitter describes, “The Translation Center allows us to crowdsource translations from our passionate users in order to more quickly launch Twitter in [...]

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Tracing The 3400 % Growth Of Foursquare

by Shabbir Akhtar on 24. Jan, 2011 in social media statistics

The year 2010 was dedicated to social networking. All social networks, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others saw phenomenal growth. Even Foursquare was in that crowd. Foursquare now has 6 million registered users and to celebrate this, they released an infographic, entitled, 2010: OUR YEAR OF 3400% GROWTH, to describe their growth through 2010.
The infographic highlights [...]

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Salesperson Profiting from Social Media

Salesperson Profiting from Social Media

by Apoorvaa Deshpande on 13. Jul, 2010 in social media marketing, social media roi

Gone are the days when salespersons and hawkers went door to door selling their products.
Now the Internet is a great resource to get your goods into the right hands, but it can also be a confusing mess of options. How do you find the right people online? How can you get your products to them?
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$20 Billion: The Potential Value of Location Based Services Market

$20 Billion: The Potential Value of Location Based Services Market

by Sahil Shah on 01. Jun, 2010 in Infographic

This simple question does not any longer have a simple answer and in fact rather very important implications. Depending on where you are, several businesses and services want to reach you and advertise to you. Today’s fast paced technology has made it possible to ‘Geo-target’ you and let local services reach you.
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Facebook to add Location Based Check-Ins this Month

Facebook to add Location Based Check-Ins this Month

by Sahil Shah on 07. May, 2010 in Facebook

News has it that Facebook is working on integrating a location based check-in feature where a user can update his/her status with. As the Business Insider quotes it, this new location based feature could be up and running anytime soon. Some questions as well predictions coming up in my mind right now. Let me detail [...]

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