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• A Day’s Outing – Find a great Day Trip, Weekend Getaway, Local Event, Things To Do
  Liking the way they're approaching the "find things to do" problem. I need to play around a bit and see what the data quality is like.
• There is something different about Foursquare friends, methinks | TrisHusseyDotCom
  Nice post on why "friends" on inherently mobile + social networks like foursquare are different.
• 100 Uses of RFID
  Nice comprehensive list of different ways people are using RFID. Now if only it could go mainstream.
• Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications… – …ifindkarma…
  So much good stuff in here about what it takes to design and build compelling social applications and why Google hasn't been able to pull off any of them.
• data@beta
  betaworks rocking a blog highlighting insights pulled from their copious data. Love it.
• Twitter Media
  Great showcase of people doing interesting stuff with the Twitter platform.
• Get your brand started on foursquare today using the tools they already provide
  Nice post about how brands can leverage the foursquare platform using tools that are out there.
• World Cup, through quarter finals: Foursquare and gowalla checkin totals @ Ozzie Sport
  Cool analysis of foursquare and Gowalla World Cup checkins.
• Some Career Advice – Continuations
  Some great tips here, particularly if you're interested in working at a startup.
• The Hidden Persuader: "Net generation"
  Great list of 8 norms that today's generation consider (implicitly and/or explicitly) when making a purchase.

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