Tag: CHECKIN

Cheating at Foursquare has always been insanely easy. Check in somewhere you're not, get the points, take unearned mayorships ... no problem. In fact, there are even some loathsome new third-party services that let you pay for mayorships. Well, Foursquare has had enough of that, especially since businesses now offer real-world perks based on checkins. They've implemented a new anti-cheating ...

Do you like the idea of Foursquare, but aren't in love with the Foursquare iPhone app? Maybe Kickball is more your speed. This new iPhone app is a Foursquare client with awesome mapping of nearby venues and friends' locations, and it makes Foursquare both more interesting and easier to use. It's available for free ("for a limited time") in the App Store. Kickball uses Twitter's GeoAPI to ...

We've been writing an awful lot about the location wars on Download Squad lately. Gowalla, Foursquare, and the rest are exploding in popularity, and that means trendy, early-adopter types might have several different sites to check in with every time they go somewhere. Reporting your location to multiple sites is a usability nightmare, but it has a solution: unified check-in! A service called ...

In this corner, with a big head start, a huge userbase, and tons of features, it's ... Foursquare! In this corner, with millions of dollars in funding and a great-looking new design ... Gowalla! digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/DING_Round_2_Foursquare_Gowalla_both_update_iPhone_Apps'; By now, most people know that Gowalla and Foursquare have been going blow-for-blow in the location-based ...

We recently covered the beta version of Gowalla's location-based social app for Android, and now it's hit version 1.0. You can download Gowalla from the Android Market starting today. Gowalla's main competitor, Foursquare, has already been on Android for some time. If you're familiar with the Gowalla iPhone app, the Android version won't disappoint. It has practically all of the features of the ...

A big part of getting a location-based app right is -- shocker! -- providing an accurate location. Gowalla is using that principle to get a leg up in its battle with Foursquare for location-based check-in supremacy. Gowalla now uses Skyhook in its Android app, which means it's providing some of the best location data around. The Android app is currently in beta, although it's not highly ...

Foursquare's exhausting week continues. After drawing some big-name competition from Facebook and getting an unofficial WIndows Mobile client, now the trendy location-based game is partnering up with the Bravo TV network. Viewers of Bravo TV shows (including "The Real Housewives," "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "Top Chef," "Kell on Earth," and "Shear Genius") can now hunt for custom Bravo ...

The Foursquare phenomenon just keeps growing! Amidst rumors that Facebook might enter the location-based check-in arena, Foursquare continues to pick up users and expand to new platforms. Thanks to the service's APIs, an intrepid developer has put together a client for Windows Mobile: WinMoSquare. It joins the roster of other mobile clients for Foursquare, which was already available in some form ...

Software is a lot more fun when there's a little drama involved, which is why I'm thoroughly enjoying the rivalry between location-based social gaming apps Foursquare and Gowalla. In the beginning, there was no clear reason to choose one over the other, but their featuresets have started to diverge in an interesting way: while Foursquare courts local businesses and works to get discounts for ...

The flow of Foursquare news just keeps on coming! Since we are called Download Squad, I'm happy to report that this latest item from the location-based gaming world is something you can actually download: a Mac desktop client for Foursquare. It shows your friends' checkins - Growl-alert compatible, no less - and allows you to check in yourself, but it's also got things the mobile version of ...

Foursquare and Gowalla have been locked in a battle over the emerging market for location-based social networking, but wait ... here comes a new challenger! Actually, it's an old, familiar challenger: Yelp. Yelp has gained a massive base of users and venues as one of the biggest user-submitter review sites on the web. It only makes sense to build check-ins and a leaderboard on top of that, so ...

Since the launch of Foursquare, playing the location-based checkin game depended on being in one of the officially-supported cities. Some large cities in the U.S. and elsewhere are still waiting to be added to the list. Well, the wait is (nearly) over, even if you live in some remote nether-region. Foursquare will soon span the globe, so you'll be able to check in anywhere you go. Heck, even ...

Foursquare, the location-based game of checking in at venues to compete for points and "mayorships," has landed on just about every mobile platform out there. We told you when it first arrived on the iPhone, when it got an even better app for Android, when it came out for the Blackberry, and when it finally hit the Palm Pre last week. Well, now you can even play Foursquare on a Nokia N900 - just ...

Dodgeball was legend amongst Internet social junkies. This cool mobile app let you know where your friends and crushes were, and made meeting up easy. It was so beloved that there was a farewell party in San Francisco when the site shut down. Something with that much community support can't stay dead for long, though, so now there's Foursquare, a Dodgeball "sequel" from one of the guys behind ...