Video Barbie tight with fast-growing Foursquare
Foursquare, the service that allows people to text to the world when they’ve arrived at the corner donut shop (that’s called a “checkin”) just passed the 100 million checkin mark, Mashable reports....
View ArticleSocial location-sharing
More and more we’re hearing about location-based socializing in the news – for example, Loopt and Latitude for keeping track of friends in a geographical sort of way, Facebook’s new Places, the more...
View ArticleGood or bad ‘Deals’ for FB users?
Add the mobile piece to social shopping + social networking and we just might have a new killer app (i.e., huge uptake). What I’m talking about is Facebook’s just-announced “Deals.” Analysts are saying...
View Article4% of US online adults use location-sharing
Geolocation apps and services like Foursquare, loopt, Gowalla, and Facebook’s Places are an online-safety frontier where consumer (much less kid) usage is the great unknown. Thankfully, the Pew...
View ArticleNew phone app: Color me (& us) careful!
The new Color photo-sharing app for iPhone and Android smartphones, is free, potentially fun, and has no age restrictions. And it will probably have a lot of appeal for our highly social, digital...
View ArticleSocial-media-powered neighbors in New York & Nairobi
As I watch the definition of “citizen” evolve during our planet’s social media shift, I’m also noticing a social media-fueled expanding sense of what it is to be a neighbor, to identify with a place,...
View ArticleYik Yak update: How the app came to geo-fence off US schools
After Yik Yak “fenced out” her daughter’s entire high school in southern California, Diana Graber of CyberWise.org did some investigating to find out how the app was blocking use in schools. What she...
View ArticleFacebook’s new friend-tracking tool
Spontaneous get-togethers are now more possible than ever with Facebook’s new Nearby Friends feature. You’d think parents could use it to see if their kids got where they said they were going, but...
View ArticleVideo Barbie tight with fast-growing Foursquare
Foursquare passes the 100 million checkin mark, and Mattel's Barbie capitalizes on its growth with a marketing campaign aimed at kids? The post Video Barbie tight with fast-growing Foursquare appeared...
View ArticleSocial location-sharing
Some basics on cellphone-based location-sharing and children's online safety when using the technology The post Social location-sharing appeared first on NetFamilyNews.org.
View ArticleGood or bad ‘Deals’ for FB users?
Facebook's adding "Deals," combining social shopping and geolocation. The post Good or bad ‘Deals’ for FB users? appeared first on NetFamilyNews.org.
View Article4% of US online adults use location-sharing
Four percent of US online adults now use location-sharing services on their cellphones, according to the latest Pew Internet data. The post 4% of US online adults use location-sharing appeared first on...
View ArticleNew phone app: Color me (& us) careful!
With Color's social photo-sharing, safety and privacy protection are more than ever a shared, real-time, real-world, on-the-spot negotiation – no small proposition for users. The post New phone app:...
View ArticleSocial-media-powered neighbors in New York & Nairobi
As I watch the definition of “citizen” evolve during our planet’s social media shift, I’m also noticing a social media-fueled expanding sense of what it is to be a neighbor, to identify with a place,...
View ArticleYik Yak update: How the app came to geo-fence off US schools
After Yik Yak “fenced out” her daughter’s entire high school in southern California, Diana Graber of CyberWise.org did some investigating to find out how the app was blocking use in schools. What she...
View ArticleFacebook’s new friend-tracking tool
Spontaneous get-togethers are now more possible than ever with Facebook’s new Nearby Friends feature. You’d think parents could use it to see if their kids got where they said they were going, but...
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