Tag: foursquare

Google Places Now Imports Your Foursquare Data
Late yesterday evening, the Google Places blog announced an update to their location-based service that aims to give you "better access to your content." The first tweak is the...
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People Who “Check-in” Are Young, Most Likely Android or iPhone Owners
A study put out today by comScore sheds some light on who is doing the majority of the "checking-in" in the U.S. The statistics were derived from the 16.7 million mobile users t...
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Foursquare Check-in Nets Cheaper Gas at Murphy USA
As gas prices have continued to climb, topping $4 in many parts of the U.S., one fuel retailer is harnessing to power of social media to bring in customers. Murphy USA, a gas...
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Foursquare Experiments With NFC at Google I/O
Today begins the 2011 Google I/O conference, which will bring thousands of developers to San Francisco to immerse themselves in the world of next gen applications.  Foursquare has...
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Foursquare’s Future: Predictive Check-Ins, Recommendations
Foursquare should be excited about its current success in the check-in sphere. Not only did they recently sur...
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Foursquare Day Success: 3 Million Check-ins Plus
I told myself I would stop.  I really did.  I told myself that there was really no reason to check-in on Foursquare to every bar and restaurant that I visited.  Nobody really cares...
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April 16th Declared Foursquare Day
According to Wikipedia, this Saturday marks the shared birthday of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Belichick, Peter Billingsley, Jon Cryer, and Martin Lawrence.  Only now it will also, a...
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Google Latitude Check-In Offers Take On Foursquare
Back in February, Google added check-ins to Google Latitude, the company's social location...
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Foursquare Rewards Check-ins With Food…For Your Dog
In "wow, that's actually a great idea" news, a German pet food company, GranataPet, has found an interesting way to market its product - free samples via...
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GetGlue Foursquare Integration Announced
If you aren't familiar with GetGlue, it is a smartphone app that allows users to check-in to activities in a way similar to how users check-in to places via...
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Foursquare Shows Interest In UK Expansion
Check-in company Foursquare may itself be on the move in a sense.  Although nothing's certain just yet, its cofounder and CEO, Dennis Crowley, has gone on the record stating that h...
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Facebook Search Patent… Should Google Be Worried?
A patent that Facebook was awarded about a month ago, called "Visual tags for search results generated from social network information," is suddenly getting some...
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Why Foursquare Is the Leader in Location
Popular location-based service Foursquare was full of announcements at SXSW this year. According to Eric Friedma...
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Foursquare: Google Would Be Great Partner
Foursquare announced the expansion of its Venues API today, as part of its...
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Foursquare Talks Future of Locations at SXSW
Everyone is trying to figure out the answer to getting location-based services to go mainstream. SCVNGR CEO Seth Priebatsch ta...
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