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PayPal, Microsoft team up with Foursquare to Save The Children

By | March 11, 2010, 3:40pm PST

Finally. A good reason to use geolocation software.

Foursquare has teamed up with PayPal and Microsoft to help the Save The Children charity. All you have to do is “check in” on Foursquare or tweet something with the hashtag #sxswHaiti and 25 cents will be donated.

I’ll append #sxswHaiti to every tweet I post and I’ll be checking into every single panel. It would be cool if they had a system to see how much each person actually donated by using these social services, but there’s always next year.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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