Foursquare has made some improvements that make this type of social mapping easier for a brand-without-a-location like Corcoran.

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McKinney notes that social mapping is successful only if people name names.

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There were numerous smaller grants announced in both the disease mapping and social services initiatives, but no investments yet in small businesses or electric vehicles.

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From mapping sites to social networks, web-based software evolves much faster than desktop software, which often looks old-fashioned by comparison.

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According to him, local search requires the right combination of a myriad factors, such as Yellow Pages, personal reviews, mapping and even social networking.

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The GPS coordinates are appended to each image and easily syncs with Canon software or mapping apps on social network sites to show image locations.

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Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.

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WifiSLAM has been offering the technology to application developers for indoor mapping and new types of retail and social-networking apps.

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Social network analysis may not and need not be a perfect mapping to show value.

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Robert and I contend there are five rapidly converging forces: social media, mobile devices, sensor networks, Big Media and mapping that are forming a new contextual era.

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