I’m intrigued by Foursquare’s expanded Explore feature, which uses its 1.5 billion check-ins (and growing, rapidly) to curate suggested destinations based on where your friends have been and tips they’ve posted.
This is what Web 2.0 is all about — filtering information through sources you already trust and, presumably, with whom you have common interests. Chasing badges and mayorships has had so little value, but Explore does. And now there’s more reason to add out-of-town friends, because it can come in handy when traveling. Foursquare is not just a meet-me-here-for-a-beer app anymore.
Source: The New York Times
Titans WR Kenny Britt, whom I only know from multiple arrests this offseason, curses out the NFL commish and retires on Facebook, then claims his account was hacked. All while cheapening the value of a Rutgers education with his moronic grammar and spelling. Social media has really exposed these dopes.
Darren Rovell's 13 Golden Rules of Twitter
Excellent advice on how to properly use Twitter from one of the best sports-related Tweeters out there, CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell.
Here’s just one of his 13 golden rules, which is right on target:
1. You don’t have a 140 characters, you have 120 at the most
Remember, Twitter is not a monologue, it is a dialogue. You want people to engage with you, you want people to retweet you. If you use all 140 characters, the only choice they have is to click the retweet button, which means they can’t comment on it. I’ve found that my ideal tweets are about 100 characters. Including my 12-letter name, an RT, a space and the @ symbol, that’s 116 characters. My followers then have 24 characters to say what they want. Your number of characters are precious, so use link shortening sites like bit.ly or is.gd to reduce the amount of letters in your tweet.
