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		<title>Make Your Web Applications Addictive: 5 Lessons to Learn from Foursquare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Nutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story is similar for my foursquare experience: my friends who live in California came back to bitterly cold Minnesota talking about checking in here and being mayor there, explaining to me that Foursquare had become the new hotness in San Francisco and I'd better get on the bandwagon if I knew what was good for me. Ever since then, I've found myself compulsively checking in to every insignificant place I go. I've even been able to convince a friend of mine to start using it who is usually very skeptical when it comes to these social apps.  It's worth taking a look at some of the ways that Foursquare has been so successful in gaining and retaining users.]]></description>
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