With the world of location based services, including Foursquare and Gowalla, getting a lot of discussion of late, especially as news comes that Facebook will soon check in with its own offering, Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss the purpose today’s services serve, and how we both leverage Foursquare – the current app of choice.

Are these services here to stay, and should they be used to show all of one’s comings and goings, or just major points of interest? Chris argues Foursquare should be used in a social way, while Louis is enjoying checking in from the mundane places in life. Meanwhile, we debate the true nature of “cheating”, and whether it is acceptable or not.

Much of this discussion stems from Louis’ recent post: Are You Filtering Checkins to Enhance Your Image?

Referenced in addition to Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook are Twitter, Stalqer and The Cadmus. Chris is an advisor to Stalqer.

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In Edge Theory Conversation 8, Jeremiah Owyang and Chris Saad discuss Twitter’s latest moves to fill their own holes. Have they irreparably hurt their developer relationships, or will the community just move up the stack? What is Twitter’s ultimate goal and are they on the right track?

See also:

• Twitter announces @Anywhere at SxSW
• The Twitter Platform Inflection Point
• Twitter buys Tweetie
• Seesmic’s Loic responds (Just prior to the Tweetie purchase)
• Evan Williams message to Twitter Developers

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Louis Gray, Chris Saad and Ben Parr have a conversation about Twitter’s new API partnerships and its implications for their revenue, the developer and user communitis and APIs. Is their approach competitive or cooperative with the community? How is their model likely to change over time?

This show mentions @al3x, @rsarver, @parislemon, @ev, @paultoo, @kfury, @btaylor and discusses Buzz, Pubsubhubbub, Facebook, FriendFeed and Twitter.com

 

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This is our first discussion. We talk about @JoshElman, @Twitter and the incremental changes to the Twitter Suggested User List. In the conversation: @chrissaad and @louisgray.

Mentions of @joshelman, @gregarious, @scobleizer, @danielbru and more…

 

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