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What is Foursquare? Say you and I are friends and you see me check in using your Foursquare iPhone or Android app from a local restaurant, such as McDonald's. If you are in the area, you might stop by and join me. Your app uses the phone's GPS to determine your location and suggest nearby establishments to check in from.

There's also a competitive aspect to it. The more you check in from local places, the more "badges" you earn and if you've checked in from a spot more than any other user, you become the "mayor" of that place.

The location-sharing social game has taken select cities around the world by storm and become very popular in the cites like New York and San Francisco where people play location based games with the flavoring of social networking.

You can "check in" to different restaurants, bars, shops and other locations in different cities and share that information with friends. When you check in, a notification is automatically posted on your profile as well as on other social sites including Twitter and Facebook.

Here are those new cities:

NORTH AMERICA
Charlotte, NC
Columbus, OH
Honolulu, HI
Louisville, KY
Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
New Haven, CT
Oklahoma City, OK
Orlando, FL
Park City, UT
Providence, RI
Sacramento, CA
Tampa, FL
Tucson, AZ

Calgary, Canada
Edmonton, Canada
Ottawa, Canada

Mexico City, Mexico

SOUTH AMERICA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil

EUROPE
Birmingham, UK
Bristol, UK
Brighton, UK
Cologne, Germany
Edinburgh, UK
Frankfurt, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Lisbon, Portugal
Milan, Italy
Oslo, Norway
Reykjavik, Iceland
Vienna, Austria
Zurich, Switzerland

AFRICA
Johannesburg, South Africa

MIDDLE EAST
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel Aviv, Israel

ASIA
Beijing, China
Bangkok, Thailand
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mumbai, India
Seoul, Korea
Shanghai, China
Singapore, Singapore
Tokyo, Japan

AUSTRALIA
Brisbane, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Sydney, Australia

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington, New Zealand

Almost 100 cities total are now covered. Is your city is not in the list? Drop your vote here at http://foursquare.com/cities

• Take a photo on your phone and upload it right to your orkut album on the go, directly from your phone.

• Share photos with orkut friends or SMS the photos to phone contacts whether they use orkut or not.

• Easily Call or SMS any of your orkut friends or phone contacts without leaving the app.
  

• View scraps,updates from friends

• Get automatic updates when your friends change their contact information or orkut profiles.

• View scraps, friends' updates, and photo albums while you're in offline mode.

Of course, besides all this unique features you'll still have all the conman features of orkut mobile at your fingertips, including writing/reading scraps, updating your status, searching for users, viewing/accepting friend requests, and much more!

Remember, it's in Beta. To install the beta version of the app, visit m.google.com/orkut on your phone's browser . Mobile phone which support Java ME (J2ME), MIDP 2.0. can download & use this app. This App available in English and Portuguese language. While the app is free to download and use, your mobile provider's regular data charges will apply.

Plaxo roll out of an integration of Facebook Connect with it's website core. Facebook which is a social network site & Plaxo which helps keep people connected by solving the common and frustrating problem of out of date contact information. Users and their contacts store their information on Plaxo’s servers. When a user edits their own information, the changes appear in the address books of all those who listed the user in their own address books. Because contacts are stored in a central location, it’s possible to list connections between contacts and access the address book from anywhere. By this integration both networks user will get more comfort for their data sharing.



Main benifit from this integration:

• Share your Facebook content such as photos, videos, links, and events over to your Plaxo Friends

• Sync your status updates between the two services (in either or both directions)

• Automatically connect with your Facebook friends who use Plaxo

• Share a link or post a review in Plaxo & you can also share it over to your friends on Facebook.

• Sign into any of the millions of sites and blogs using Friend Connect with Netlog credentials

• Use their Netlog profiles on these sites

• See if any of their friends are already members of the same sites and invite other Netlog friends to join

• Share their Friend Connect activities with their friends on Netlog

• Send messages back to their Netlog friends

Google’s integration with Netlog lets users sign into sites and blogs using Friend Connect with their Netlog ID and password. Users can use their Netlog profiles on the site, invite other Netlog users to join Friend Connect, and also share their Friend Connect activity with friends on Netlog. On the back end, Google used open standards like OpenID, OAuth, and OpenSocial as underlying technologies to enabling any other service to plug into Friend Connect like Netlog & because of this Open standards it's far good then Facebook Connect.

Any social network or service, whether they are large or small, regional or global, niche or general audience, is welcome to take advantage of these open standards to integrate with Friend Connect, and participate in an open social web.

Additionally, for sites that are already using Friend Connect, one of the benefits of this standards based model is that they can take advantage of any new service that chooses to join this open ecosystem, like Netlog, without any additional work. The new network option simply appears.

Netlog is growing fast, especially in Eastern Europe and the Middle-East, where it serves as the community portal of choice thanks to its viral nature and extensive language translation program. But even though Netlog is becoming increasingly popular in other parts of the world, this isn’t as big of a win for Google as the integration of a popular social network worldwide like Facebook, which officially has 200 million registered users around the globe. Facebook just hit 307 million unique visitors worldwide in April, with MySpace trailing behind with 127 million unique visitors in April, according to comScore. By comparison, comScore’s worldwide unique visitor estimate for Netlog is 23.8 million.

WeboLobby also having Google Friend Connect at the basic base. we are trying to improve it and Soon we enable all the interactive features of Friend Connect for batter user experience. Mean while do join our community and invite your friends to Join the site.

Facebook’s new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live The new directory allows users to sort through apps using a number of new categories like, Applications You May Like, desktop applications, and iPhone apps that use Facebook Connect for iPhone, External website that use Facebook Connect. At the top of the directory is a section for featured items called Featured By Facebook, where Facebook staff can feature some of their favorite applications even if they aren’t the most popular.

Also new is a feed that is incorporated into the directory itself. At the bottom of the page, you’ll notice an area called “Recent Activity From Friends”. This includes updates from all of the third part applications your friends are using, the idea being that it will help you discover new applications that you might be interested in that your friends are using right of the moment.

Apps categorised in Lifestyle, Business & Finince, Education, Sports , Utility and many more.

Flock, Sister browser of Mozilla which works on Mozilla technology has rolled out new version 2.5 with very new features that's more social.

Flock browser is one of my favorite browser that I'm using it. love Mozilla because of it's security, speed and add on support and flock also support the Mozilla add on and it performs as same as Mozilla.

Flock add support for Bebo and improved support for Twitter, adds facebook chat within browser and much more.

• Bebo has been integrated as a People service so now user able to see their friends in Flock sidebar

• Based on the Firefox 3 technology, providing a faster, safer, and more stable web surfing experience.

• Incorporated Mozilla's 3.0.10 updates for Firefox.

• Facebook Chat has been integrated as an Instant Messaging service so now it's easy to chat with your facebook friends with in browser interface.

• Improved Twitter features in the People Sidebar with several new options.
  

• Twitter Live Results have been added to the search chrome.

• Twitter Search widget has been added to MyWorld so now you can save twitter search.

• FlockCast has been integrated as a new feature in Facebook, allowing you to easily broadcast your actions from around the web directly onto your Facebook page.

• Magnolia service support has been removed.

With Help of Google latitude user can share location with friends. Yes till now you can able to share the location with friends only but now Google developed some application that allow to share the location publicly with anyone.

Till now user can use Latitude via mobile and iGoogle that lets you share your location with your friends Only, not with others who are not your friends and people were asking "What if I want to share my location with people who are not my Latitude friends?" To answer that, Today Google launch some application which enables user to share the location with anyone. Well it sounds cool. Let's see what application Google develop?

Google Talk Location Status (beta)

Share your Google Latitude location as your status message with all of your Google Talk or Gmail chat contacts, including anyone that can already chat with you so it will Automatically updates your status message with your current city's name as you move. What it means?

Simply if you're in New York then in your Google Talk, it will show the city name which is New York as a Status message.

But here, Your current city is shared with all of your Google Talk or Gmail Chat contacts openly so even if you hide from some of them in Google Latitude it will not work. For example, if you hide your location from a specific friend in Latitude, that friend may still be able to see your location in your Google Talk or Gmail chat status message if you have your location status enabled.

don't wanna share your location?

What if you don't wanna share your location? What if you don't wanna let your mom know that you're in pub? So to stop sharing location in your status message you have two options.

• Simply Disable the app entirely by going to http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/status

• Or Clear your status message or change it to another saved or custom message to temporarily stop sharing your location as your status message.
  

To start using it again, you'll need to select it from your recently used status messages or use the "loc:on" shortcut.

Google Public Location Badge:

The Google Public Location Badge lets you publish your Latitude location on your blog or website. You can choose to show just the city that you are in or you can have your device's location detected automatically, using GPS, Wi-Fi, or cell tower ID, which provides a more specific location. You can also use a KML or JSON feed to create a custom experience in your own application. you can receive an email reminder that you are sharing your location publicly with your badge. You may choose to receive emails one, never, weekly, or monthly.

Here also your location will be shared publicly and you will not be able to control who can or cannot see it.

Don't wanna share your location?

Here also your location will be shared publicly and you will not be able to control who can or cannot see it. here the case is different. To stop sharing location the only way is that you disable the badge entirely or change its settings by going to http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge

But Once you create and publish the embedded badge HTML code on your website, anyone with access to your website could copy the code elsewhere so that your location is still accessible even after you remove the code from your site so to stop publicly broadcasting your location, you must go back to http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge and disable it as I already said and you may also want remove the code or feed from your site or application.

According to Google, These applications are only available in the US for now, but they'll soon be ready for all the same languages and countries that Google Latitude supports.

google.com/latitude

To use Google Latitude first you need to Join Latitude via Mobile or Web

For Web user: add Latitude Widget to your iGoogle Page. For this Google Account needed.

For Mobile User: Go to your Mobile Browser and open google.com/latitude or get the link via Text message & if Google maps is working on your phone then you can use Google Latitude on your Phone. Supported platforms & mobile devices as under:

• Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1

• iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)

• most color Black Berry devices

• most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices

• most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smart phones)

NutshellMail enables you to update your MY Space status via email and track new activity in your My Space account, including:

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