The biggest threat to the Foursquare boom has arrived – Facebook Places. With over 500 millions users now, Facebook is the largest social media network in the world. There has been much hype over this anticipated move by Facebook into the geo-location services arena, and since the launch the uptake has been massive.
Geo-location based services are growing at a rapid rate since the release of platforms like Foursquare and Gowalla. With these services you are able to “check-in” at various locations, and leave comments, and share
When your website host really lets you down it can be very frustrating. And if you read some reviews out there, you can see a lot of people have been very disappointed by a variety of hosts and their false promises.
So you may be considering a swap to a new host. But of course, this might make you a little nervous, since you do not want to face the prospect of your website being down, or something going wrong.
Here is a little step by step guide for changing your website host as quickly and
Guest Post by Pamela Evbota
1. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are – Theodore Roosevelt
Most times we complain that what is holding us back, and stopping us from attaining our goals in life is inadequacy. In actual sense we made ourselves inadequate. We stop ourselves saying we are not good enough – ‘you don’t have what it takes’. Stop selling yourselves short, you are good just the way you are and the world is waiting for you to share your brilliance.
2. Create your dream circle/team
On your way to success, learn to surround yourself with
Foursquare is a geo-location social media network that is growing at a very fast rate. It is becoming more and more popular for people to “check-in” at their favourite bar, cafe, restaurant, tourist attraction, and other locations. And now more add-on mobile apps are being created to enhance the value of Foursquare, and extend the interaction just from “checking in”.
If you currently have a smartphone (iPhone or Android), here are 10 new Foursquare mobile apps you may want to look into:
1. Fourcash, finance by location
Fourcash is promoted as a fun, free way to manage your
So far, in the social networking world, only Linked In has led in the area of business and professional online networking. But now this may change with a brand new Facebook application which you can use to engage in professional networking with your friends and contacts from your profile.
The application is called “BranchOut” and I’m surprised it’s taken this long to see an add-on application like this added to Facebook.
Once you activate BranchOut in your profile, you can:
- Browse your friends’ employers, or search by company







After the vast discussions that followed my post –
With Facebook you are chasing “likes” or “fans”, with Twitter you are trying to build followers, and with your blog you are trying to increase traffic, or the infamous “unique visits”.







