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If you’re not in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, you may not be able to check in to foursquare, but fear not: Fellow app GetGlue will sate your check-in appetite by offering stickers to users who check in to CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin or MTV’s New Year’s Bash with Whitney Cummings and Jersey Shore cast members Pauly D and Snooki, Mashable reports.

Users who check into the CNN coverage before 11 p.m. ET Dec. 31 will also be eligible for a special sticker, according to Mashable, which added that GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold said New Year’s Eve will mark the first time GetGlue will attempt to drive users to a live event.

It’s that time of year: New Year’s Eve is only 24 days away, so the Times Square Alliance, Countdown Entertainment, and Livestream announced their plans for a live, six-and-a-half-hour, commercial-free Webcast of the celebration from New York’s Times Square.

The organizers said the Webcast will be made up of five story lines: One World Revealed, which will share the stories of people from everywhere around the globe who traveled to Times Square to be part of the festivities; What It Takes, a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the New Year’s Eve celebration; Celebrate Community, in which viewers from more than 190 countries will chat and share photos and video via Facebook chat, Twitter chat, or Tweeting hashtag #TimesSquareBall; Times Square, a look at the history of the world’s most famous intersection; and The Official New Year’s Eve Live Blogcast Headquarters, “the central nervous system of the global celebration,” located at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.

Free, customizable widgets will be offered for blogs, Web sites, and digital media outlets to embed the live stream, and it can also be viewed at TimesSquareNYC.org, Livestream.com/2011, and TimesSquareBall.net.