I’d heard about the Foursquare website for awhile before it ever became available in my hometown of Indianapolis, IN. When it finally arrived here in Indianapolis and they added it to their city list, I immediately got more active on the site.

Prior to using Foursquare I was a fairly avid user of the similar website for geo-location updates with Brightkite. My initial thoughts were that these two sites were competitors of each other, but after using Foursquare for awhile, they’re really not, which I’ve written about earlier on this site.
Foursquare focuses more on what you’re doing and encouraging …read more

Not too long ago everyone on twitter was showing their support for Iran by changing their location. There were a variety of reasons I heard of for changing your location to Tehran, but I never did. I think accurately representing your location in your twitter profile is more important than people think.

As you can see from my graphic above, people set their locations to a variety of different uses. Some people are very specific and providing city, state and zip for their location. Others just provide a city. Some people put the name of a business in their location. In …read more