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What is it?
Facebook Places is a (currently US-only) additional feature which allows Facebook Mobile users to check into locations. Sound familiar? Like Foursquare/Gowalla, you can signal your location, whether it’s at a bar, shop, building, wherever. A key difference between Places and Foursquare is that Facebook has a ready-built userbase in the millions. Places also [...]

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What is it?
Another development in the location-based service world, and thus another location-based technology briefing. Shopkick is a newly launched iPhone app, which, lazily summarised, is the ‘Foursquare for shopping’. This is, however, a slightly misleading description as Foursquare functions around user tips, comments and interaction - none of which feature in Shopkick.
Nonetheless, Business Insider predicts big [...]

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This post was written by RMM’s intern, Rob Meiklejohn with some editing by Shona Ghosh.
What is it?
Flattr is a new take on voluntary micropayments for online content - the textbook web 2.0 name combines flattery and flat rate. It is a standalone platform which allows users to reward creators for specific content they really [...]

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What is it?
As indicated in our last briefing, location-based services are where it’s at (albeit more so in the US than the UK). There’s been a lot of focus on the privacy issues inherent in always telling people where you are, but arguably these are being slowly swept under the carpet as more exciting possibilities [...]

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What is it?
Last week, Twitter announced Twitter Places in a major step towards location. Places isn’t a new platform, but an added functionality which allows you to ‘tag’ your Twitter updates with a location.

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