On Foursquare I have: 1,700 checkins, 41 badges and 11 mayorships. I’ve met new friends using the app and I keep in touch with many other friends through viewing and commenting on their checkins. Nonetheless it still feels like early days with LBS. New applications continue to come to market, existing applications are adding checkin …
I asked how people how open they are with their Facebook account in April’s poll. Lately I had seen more and more people using Facebook almost like LinkedIn. This contrasted with my traditional view of Facebook as a network of family and friends. – – – The results showed that: 83% of respondents choose to …
Location based services such as Foursquare/Gowalla/Whrll/Places/SCVNGR continue their relatively slow adoption rate. Some see it as an important precursor to social shopping, yet some are worried about security or just don’t see why they should spend time with these apps.
Last month’s poll asked, “What is the best use of social influence measurement?” The results were as follows: Quick take on an individuals influence (44%) Track Marketing campaign efforts (22%) It’s completely without merit (22%) “First pass” metric used to discover potential influencers (12%) It’s early days on social influence measurement and the consisent thought …
Do you limit your Facebook account to family and friends or is it open to the public? Where do you draw the privacy line? [poll id=”5″] photo credit renjith krishnan @ freedigitalphotos.net