Facebook appears to have added cross-linking between Pages and other location-based sites like Foursquare, Yelp, Gowalla and SCVNGR to its Pages, reports Scribbal. Tech evangelist Robert Scoble posted a notice on his Google+ profile earlier today that  indicated a new partnership between Foursquare and Facebook as the Page for a place was shown to direct viewers to the comparable location on Foursquare.The links appear off to the left underneath the ‘Like' count and checkin count on a loca [...]

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Over 1.5bn more people now have access to foursquare thanks to the recent language expansion. Now available in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai, foursquare hopes to meet the global demands of its international members with native-language access.Why these languages specifically? According to the official foursquare blog, these are the areas that represent the most growth for the app.You can either check out the foursquare website to see the changes yourself, or update you [...]

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I wouldn't say I'm a very "popular" person on LinkedIn. With only a few connections made on the platform, I definitely have a ways to go before I hit anywhere near where some of my more established colleagues are. If this was Twitter, their follower count would really set the bar. This, of course, makes me wonder: Am I using the service correctly?Of the many people who send connection requests, I have to know: Who are my colleagues adding to LinkedIn? Do they actually know these people, or have [...]

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Facebook is dumping Facebook Places and conceding defeat to Foursquare, Gowalls and other check-in services. With Places demoted to tagging locations, what is Facebook setting its sights on now? Messaging, as evidenced by the release of Facebook Messenger for iPhone, is one. Another target appears to be Instagram and other photo filter apps and services. The New York Times reports that:Facebook Targets Instagram With Photo FiltersFacebook wants to own your photos instead of merely being the reci [...]

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Social Times' Bilal Hameed picked up on iPhone apps being added to Starbucks' Pick of the Week last week. Previously, the program provided a free song from iTunes every week. However, it seems Starbucks wasn't quite done with making changes to the Pick of the Week program. This week Starbucks announced that in addition to a free song and free app, the Pick of the Week program would also provide free chapters from books from the iBookstore as well as free TV episodes andn "other media types" (pre [...]

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