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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVom_j0Wtp4&feature=player_embedded MTV Online presenter Tom Thurlow went on the streets to ask students about their digital lifestyle. What mobiles are they carrying and why? Are they adopting Foursquare or Facebook Places? Do any of them still read newspapers or do they get all their news online?

If there was any doubt left as to whether Social Media had the kind of reach of traditional media, then the answer arrived last week by way of Doug Wheelock who checked into the International Space Station on FourSquare, unlocking a ‘NASA Explorer Badge’ There’s a new first in the realm of outer space social [...]

Google officially axed the underutilised (and overhyped) Google Wave project last week (read Fast Company’s obituary here). I have a fear that my favourite geo-tagging program, Foursquare, will go the same way. Foursquare allows you to use your mobile phone’s GPS capability to “check in” at various venues (read an intro slideshow here if you [...]

Those of you old enough may recognise my borrowing of a Talking Heads song for the subject line of this post : ) Of course I’m talking about location-based social networking platforms. The likes of FourSquare, Gowala, Loopt, etc. It’s not the first, or the last, time I’ll write about this, because it’s a big and interesting happening. It [...]

We’ve just added a new PodCast to the TomorrowToday feed. We took an exert of Barrie Bramley, speaking at a Business Breakfast, talking about Technology, from TomorrowToday’s latest presentation called After Shock. If you’d like to listen to this audio track please click on the following: iTunes automatic subscription RSS Feed

When FourSquare opened it’s ‘borders’ to include South Africa, I think I might have been in the 20 first users. I worked hard to learn the culture and energy around this social media positioning platform that I was reading so much about. I religiously checked into every spot I found myself at. I think I [...]