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Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 11:18 am by Ryan Matzner
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Foursquare, the latest trend in location-aware social media, is a tool that allows users to “check in” to just about anywhere, alerting their pre-approved friends of their wareabouts. Users can check into restaurants, bars, their offices–anywhere they want. If they want to check into somewhere not in the database, they can simply add it themselves. Here’s CNN’s explanation of Foursquare.
Foursquare uses an algorythm to calculate “trending” places. That is, they monitor checkins and when a particular place is more happening then the places around it, it gets boosted to the top of the local list and will begin “Trending”. That’s exactly what happened this morning to Blue Fountain Media. Check it out…

To find out how Blue Fountain Media can help you promote your business through location-aware social media services like Foursquare, request a quote or call 212-260-1978
Tags: foursquare, location-aware