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Six next steps for mobile social location

Stuart Dredge
Six next steps for mobile social location

Our pick of how Foursquare and co will evolve in the coming months.

In the last 12 months, there’s been a huge amount of excitement around Foursquare and rivals like Gowalla, Rummble, Brightkite and MyTown.

Social location is one of the hottest sectors in the mobile entertainment industry, as shown most recently by rumours that Yahoo may be mulling a $100 million acquisition of Foursquare.

ME has taken a look at six of the ways social location will evolve in 2010. They are:

1. More platforms and countries
2. More promotional partnerships
3. More game-ification
4. More openness and aggregation
5. Bigger fish starting to bite
6. The money thing

To read our thoughts on all of these, check out the full feature.

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Tags: foursquare , rummble , gowalla , mytown