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FourSquare, the hot location-based services startup, is hoping to increase its momentum by opening its API to the public.

With the rise of superphones such as Apple’s iPhone, the BlackBerry Bold and Nokia’s E71 and N96 devices, we are at the cusp of a new era in which the mobile and the wired web converge.

Earlier today, Google unveiled Latitude, a nifty little application for your smartphone (as long as it’s not an iPhone) that lets your friends locate you, and you them, on a map.

Time and privacy are two aspects of our modern lives that are in short supply.