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Foursquare is a web and mobile application that allows users to connect with friends via updates to their location.

It's also a game with points and badges awarded for checking in at venues, and tips to save detailing things to see, do or eat nearby. You might also be crowned 'Mayor'.

We'll be scooting around Edinburgh this festival season offering our recommendations, so add us as a friend.

New Media Scotland writes for the Digital Section of The Skinny covering the ever evolving art of new media. The Skinny is the media partner of our programme at Inspace.

Saturday 4th July to Tuesday 4th August 2009.
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A re-engagement with the cultural and physical landscape of Edinburgh by imagining and enacting a geographical conversation with eight figures of the past.

Leaving a physical and virtual trail which others will be able to follow both during and after the project, these eight prominent characters will engage in a conversation both amongst themselves, but also with their followers on Twitter and Brightkite.

Robert Burns, Charles Darwin, Robert Fergusson,
David Hume, James Clerk Maxwell, Walter Scott,
Adam Smith & Robert Louis Stevenson.

Wednesday 1st April to Sunday 31st May 2009.
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We were pleased to announce a two month Twitter residency by artist Sarah Sharp AKA @trixiebedlam

Sarah spent much of her youth practicing to become the world's greatest detective. Disappointed to find rather fewer unexplained murders cropping up than her literary role models had led her to expect, she now applies her acute powers of observation to the bigger mysteries of human existence.

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1st to 31st December 2008

"A frisky December of smouldering fires and distant scintillation. Here the village of Albert lies, nestling betwixt rolling buxom hills."

Now available as a PDF download.

Last.fm is an internet radio and music community website. Users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm's music library.

Here's what we've been listening too...

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1st to 31st Aug 2008

"Military experiment creates intelligent snow. Icy fists smash the armies of the world. The carrot-nosed Emperor wears a coal crown."

New Media Scotland was proud to announce that its third Twitterist-in-Residence was science fiction writer Hannu Rajaniemi. He used his residency to post daily microfiction pieces which were only 140 characters long.

Get your sticky fingers on the Edinburgh Art Festival
5th August to 5th September 2009

Explore the artworks using our interactive map. Plan your visit to the Edinburgh Art Festival and enjoy all that there is to see and do with your family and friends.

Be sure to pick up a pack of free stickers from Stills so you can try your hand at curating an exhibition, just download the StickerCurator instruction sheet below.

Hands up... and get ready to stick 'em!

Spreadshirt is a creative apparel platform, inspiring people to create, buy, or sell individualized fashion.

Visit the New Media Scotland Spreadshirt shop here:
http://www.mediascot.spreadshirt.net