Launched in March 2009, Foursquare has established itself as a top player in location-based services. It allows users to “check in” to a business when they are at (or technically in the vincinity of) a business. In exchange, users earn fancy badges and mayorships, plus social benefits with their friends and other users located nearby. [...]
Yuping Liu-Thompkins, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Marketing & E. V. Williams Faculty Fellow at Old Dominion University, and a 2010 Fellow of Society for New Communications Research. Dr. Liu-Thompkins is an expert on Internet marketing and customer loyalty. Her work has been published in a wide variety of journals. She is also an editorial review board member for Journal of Marketing Communications. More information about Dr. Liu-Thompkins can be found in her curriculum vitae (PDF).
