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Foursquare is a location-based application that's available for Android, iPhone, Palm, and BlackBerry. Many of you are probably already familiar with it or, at least, have seen people showing you their location on your Twitter and Facebook pages. Foursquare serves both a social broadcasting and a business promotion purpose. For those who just want to let their friends in the electronic world know where they are, what they are doing, and how they feel about it, Foursquare is a great application. For businesses, it creates a new medium to spread the word about your products and services, specifically if you have a fixed location.

Setup in the Foursquare application is pretty straightforward. When you first open the app, it brings you to a home screen with three tabs: Friends, Places, and Me.

The Friends tab allows you to see where people you have connected with on Foursquare have most recently checked in. By touching any of these friends, you are instantly able to view their info, which includes where they were last seen and various options that they control so that you can communicate directly with them via SMS, email, Twitter, or phone. In my experience with using these contact methods, you are likely to find that many folks aren't even aware that their information is out there on this application for the world to see. That being said, it is up to you to go to your homepage through the Web browser (not the application on your phone) and edit your privacy settings.

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