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Nice global version of the Foursquare check-ins in Manhattan/San Francisco animation which I bookmarked a while back (also in the Geolocation "list")

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One of my fave bloggers, David Hopkins, casts a critical eye over 4sq and it's potential for use in education.

From November 2010

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A bevy of ideas on how to use Foursquare in an educational setting.

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An example of an HEI using location-based social media to support its students.

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H/T @markpower

Nice infographic showing usage of different social media tools including a comparison of people using them on mobile or fixed devices.

Look at where apps like Foursquare and Gowalla are in relation to the big hitters like Skiype, Facebook and Hotmail.

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Intriguing visualisation of Foursquare checkins in New York and San Francisco over the course of a week as a heat map.

Looking at it you get a picture of how useful this data might be to marketers or other service providers.

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Police.uk crime stats for your Foursquare check-ins.

Interesting mash up of open data and location-based social networking. The raw police data looks only at locations to compare crime rates, but this app takes it from the perspective of the individual who moves between locations. The crime stats for your latest 10 check-in locations are collated to give you a "fear" score - ie, if you spend all your time in crime-ridden locations you'll have a higher score.

This is interesting, but I wonder about the meaningfulness of the data. Also, how productive is it to explicitly link crime figures with fear. It makes for a catchy title but is this giving people something else to be scared of?

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Guardian piece about the head of Foursquare. 
I'm not a big user or fan of 4sq but it seems to be gathering a bit of momentum and some of the possibilities hinted at towards the end of the article are interesting. 

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Article highlighting some of the risks in using location-based social networks.

Slightly creepy - went straight to my 4square settings and privacy'd myself up.

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