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That's the basis of Foursquare, the gorilla in a new wave of location-based social-networking sites. While sites like Facebook and Twitter are interested in what you're doing, Foursquare is more interested in where you're doing it - and using different ways to reward you for checking in. (See the top 10 tweets...
...Foursquare has some heady problems to face before reaching critical mass. There's competition from a slew of similar sites, including Google Latitude (reborn from the wreckage of Dodgeball) and Gowalla, and there are rampant rumors that both Facebook and Twitter are interested in figuring out new ways to harness user locations in 2010. But the biggest challenge? Taking something that's popular in the young, tech-heavy communities on the coasts and making it appeal to moms and dads in between. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
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Harvard’s participation with foursquare marks the latest move in the University’s push to make itself more accessible to students, faculty, and the general public, according to Hewitt. Other efforts have included the creation of Harvard’s own official Facebook page and Twitter, whose content is edited and updated by HPAC employees...
...with any kind of giving, it's wise to verify that the cause you are donating to is a legitimate organization before pledging funds. This is especially true when you learn of a nonprofit on Facebook, where phishing and other scams can give the impression that your friends are sending out links, when really a spammer has hijacked their identity. (See TIME's photo-essay about the 2004 tsunami in Asia...