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Entertainment-based social network GetGlue revamped its iPhone app and website, adding integration with location-based mobile app foursquare and sports check-ins, as well as launching a thorough redesign.

GetGlue added that updates for the Android, iPad, and BlackBerry platforms are on the way.

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Another major feature in this release is the ability to share your location to foursquare with each check-in. This integration enables a cool new use case: the ability to check in to content at a location. For example, with GetGlue, you can now check in and share that you are: watching The King’s Speech @ AMC Theatre, listening to Maroon 5 @ Madison Square Garden, reading The Hunger Games @ New York Public Library, watching San Antonio Spurs @ John’s Sports Bar, or thinking about Albert Einstein @ Princeton University.

Checking in to content and location is both meaningful and convenient. A lot of times you want to share what you are doing at the location, and this release of GetGlue makes it really easy. First, you can select what you are doing and then you pick the location using foursquare.

When you click the share to foursquare button, GetGlue will prompt you to sign into foursquare. Then you can select your location via the familiar foursquare screen. The check-in is posted to both GetGlue and foursquare, making it easy to share with friends, as well as to get points and rewards on both networks.

The check-ins that have location associated with them will have a small location icon next to them, so you can easily tell them apart in the GetGlue streams.

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The first installment of Next Wave with Gary Vaynerchuk, the recurring video segment for News Corp.’s The Daily iPad-only newspaper, announced Tuesday and featuring Daily Grape founder and wine reviewer and SiriusXM Wine & Web with Gary Vaynerchuk host Gary Vaynerchuk, went live Wednesday:

The Daily added Daily Grape founder and wine reviewer and SiriusXM Wine & Web with Gary Vaynerchuk host Gary Vaynerchuk to its wine cellar, as he will become an on-camera contributor for News Corp.’s iPad-exclusive daily newspaper, hosting recurring video segment Next Wave with Gary Vaynerchuk.

Vaynerchuk will continue raising his glasses to Daily Grape and SiriusXM. He is also the author of 2009 best-seller Crush It! Why Now Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion.

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Entertainment-based social network GetGlue announced the release of a free BlackBerry app, joining its apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Users can check in to TV shows, movies, music, games, and books; share check-ins via Twitter and Facebook; see what friends are currently watching, reading, or listening to; earn leader-board points and stickers from GetGlue and major brands; rate lists of popular shows, movies, music, and books; get suggestions for weekly new releases and old favorites; and take favorite entertainment and suggestions everywhere.

Google TV announced that its Google TV Remote app is now available for the Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPods running iOs 3 or higher, joining the Android app, which debuted in December.

In addition to traditional remote-control functions such as changing channels or DVR access, users can search for their favorite shows via voice search.

Google TV added that the app currently does not support sharing Web pages from the Apple devices to TV screens.

Today is finally here for the iPad, as the NBC morning-news show released its free Today App for iPad, which uses the Apple table’s high-resolution display to allow users to view video segments, interact with video transcripts, view slide shows, and read other content. Videos can be viewed in full-screen mode, as well.

Users can also share Today content via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

Today.com director Jen Brown said:

We know our audience wants to be in the loop on the latest news and information. We created the Today App to allow them to stay connected with their favorite segments throughout the day and on the go.

Professional networking site LinkedIn is making its entry into the news arena, announcing the beta launch of LinkedIn Today, which aggregates the most-shared headlines related to multiple industries by members of the network.

LinkedIn Today users can sort their news by connections, industry, and the overall network, as well as seeing what their connections are reading. Up to 22 industries can be followed, as can specific news sources.

The product is also deeply integrated with Twitter, allowing users to Tweet trending news to their Twitter accounts, post it to their LinkedIn Groups, or email it to their connections.

LinkedIn also announced the release of version 3.6 of its iPhone app, which includes LinkedIn Today.

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Location-based mobile app Gowalla added a CNN iReport option to its Highlights, allowing citizen journalists contributing to the cable network’s initiative to use Gowalla Passport Holders to highlight important locations.

When the Gowalla Passport Holders are added, messages will automatically be uploaded to CNN iReport, and highlights can be shared on other platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.

CNN producers will be able to choose reports highlighted via Gowalla for use in the network’s reporting, and users whose content is chosen will receive CNN iReport pins on their Gowalla passports.

CNN.com participation director Lila King said:

Opening up iReport to the Gowalla community is an exciting step for participatory journalism. By bringing the power of location services to our iReport community, we are connecting our audience to the precise places where news events are happening.

Bravo will preview upcoming music-competition series Platinum Hit during a March 16 panel at South by Southwest, How to Become the Next Big Hitmaker, and the cable network teamed up with foursquare to allow fans to unlock a special Platinum Hit badge by using the location-based mobile app to check in at various locations in Austin, Texas, Broadcasting & Cable reported.

Fans who earn the badge will be eligible to attend a meet-and-greet with Jewel, the host and judge of Platinum Hit, at the Spin Loft March 17, with the first 90 being admitted, according to B&C.

Bravo also teamed up with foursquare for its Watch What Happens Live New Year’s Eve special.

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The short history of foursquare contains several ties to South by Southwest, so it’s only fitting that the location-based mobile app will ring in this year’s SXSW by releasing version 3.0 for Android and iPhone devices Tuesday night.

One of the most prominent new features in the updated app is an Explore tab, which offers suggestions based on users’ previous visited places, friends’ visited places, users’ trends, time of day, and other factors.

Highlights from a post by co-founder Dennis Crowley on the foursquare Blog:

It was almost exactly two years today that Naveen Selvadurai and I flipped the switch on foursquare, jumped on a plane to Austin, and introduced the folks at SXSW 2009 to our idea of “turning life into a game.” We’ve told the story a number of times, but we really had no idea whether people would dig the “check-ins and game mechanics” model or laugh us out of Texas. As it turned out, a lot of people loved it. By the time we got back to New York, we had 5,000 users. We started a company, raised a round of funding, and hired a bunch of the smartest people we could find.

Last year, we came back to Austin with a slightly bigger team (12 of us!) and more confidence in our ideas. Not only were people digging the “life as a game” idea, but we were seeing foursquare badges actually driving people to do things (“Gym Rat” badge, anyone?), we saw mayorships encouraging loyalty at coffee shops and restaurants, and merchants starting to reward people for their check-ins (“free coffee for the Mayor!”). It wasn’t hard to see how the social utility of check-ins, tips, and to-dos were starting to change the way people experienced both familiar neighborhoods and new cities. We launched “Trending” at SXSW 2010 — a way to see where a critical mass of people were checked in — and watched as people at SXSW used it as a “sixth sense” to know when it was time to switch parties and as a way to choose which panels to gravitate toward. We left Austin last year with just under 500,000 users.

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