CBS has linked their hit show "The Amazing Race" with Foursquare and created a brand page on the site. Given the topic of the show (traveling to different destinations all over the world) it completely makes sense for CBS to make this move. Here's the message on their Foursquare page: CBS's "The Amazing Race" celebrates ...

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‘Checking in' to TV shows and other forms of media quickly evolved from the success of location-based services like Foursquare. However, it's not quite captured the public's imagination in quite the same way. Now prominent media checkin service GetGlue has published some new stats which show that perhaps it would be wrong to write off the idea just yet.The startup says that June, July and August this year combined saw a 130% increase in the number of checkins being made by its users, helpi [...]

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Social network measurement service Klout has unveiled a new metric to better calculate its users' overall social reach, adding Foursquare checkins alongside its existing Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn metrics.Klout measures social influence by using data collected from supported social media accounts, incorporating following counts, follower counts, retweets, list memberships and the influential people that interact with those accounts – combining them all to award the user with an o [...]

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