Tag: FOURSQUARE

Foursquare is a location-based application that's available for Android, iPhone, Palm, and BlackBerry. Many of you are probably already familiar with it or, at least, have seen people showing you their location on your Twitter and Facebook pages. Foursquare serves both a social broadcasting and a business promotion purpose. For those who just want to let their friends in the electronic world know ...

For folks who are sick of checking in at a favorite venue on Foursquare all the time, with no clue when they'll finally become mayor, relief is here! Now, when you check in on Foursquare, you'll see how many check-ins you have toward mayorship, along with your overall total. If you're within 10 days of becoming mayor, you'll also see how many days you have to go. If you need more detailed info ...

If you've been testing out Facebook Places, you may have noticed that the Places icon looks like the number four ... in a square. Is this a blatant glove-slap at Places rival/partner Foursquare? Is Foursquare so synonymous with location-based check-in services that Facebook decided it would best represent the Places services? It's a lot more innocent than that, according to the artist behind ...

If you're a mayorship-obsessed, Foursquare-loving, check-in fiend with an iPhone, Mayorama could be the best 99 cents you spend this week. It promises to show you the status of your mayorships -- how many check-ins you have at each venue, and how many to go until you become mayor -- and give you a list of targets (nearby vulnerable venues you can check into). Even if you're just wondering how many ...

The launch of Facebook Places marks Facebook's long-awaited entry into the location-based social networking game. Far from destroying Foursquare and Gowalla, though, Facebook actually got those companies, along with Yelp and MyTown, on board with its Places API. Check-ins should eventually flow both ways, making it as easy as possible to tell Facebook -- I mean, uh, your friends -- where you are. ...

Big news for Foursquare this week, both good and bad. The good: they've acquired another $20 mil in funding from Andreesen Horowitz, the venture capital firm led by Marc Andreesen, who founded Netscape way back in the '90s. The bad: there are some emerging privacy issues, including vulnerabilities that have allowed a white hat hacker to capture huge amounts of checkin data. According to Wired, ...

If you're as obsessed with Foursquare as I am, here's some good news for you: there's finally a site that lets you see how many more checkins you need to become mayor of your favorite venue. It's called When Will I Be Mayor?, and it offers features like venue monitoring so that you always know how close you are to achieving a mayorship. I've been waiting for something like this for a while ...

Although they've been overshadowed by nightmarish privacy concerns lately, Facebook's upcoming location features are starting to get some buzz again. This time, it's been more-or-less confirmed that Facebook will be introducing Foursquare-style checkins, at least on mobile versions of the site. Some code for a "location" tab in the touch.facebook.com version of the site seems to indicate ...

Foursquare is awesome for figuring out where your friends are, but it can also be useful for knowing where your enemies aren't. Avoidr, a service built on Foursquare, promises to help you "keep your friends close and your enemies at that bar down the street." With Avoidr, you can select any Foursquare contact and discreetly declare him or her "dead to you." You also get to assign an insult to ...

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 ...

This isn't happening just yet, but it's pretty exciting news. NeoWin spotted a Microsoft announcement of some upcoming Bing features. The most exciting, to me, is the prospect of FourSquare integration. You will be able to search any location, and overlay it with a FourSquare "layer." You will then get icons showing where users in this area have been "checking in." This effectively shows you ...

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 ...

Until now, geolocation has been one of those quaint, semi-useful buzzwords: '... now with geolocation!!!' Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare -- the main exponents of exposing your location -- might not be small, but they pale in comparison to Facebook. With the announcement that Facebook will be enabling geolocation next month, Pandora's Box has been torn open; whether you like it or not, geolocation ...