April 2011
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@foursquare specials now added to @Checkinmania
You can now find deals in any town without having to be in the neighborhood. Look for the deals tab to browse and find specials anywhere, select a city and click anywhere on the map to find foursquare check-in specials, Mayor specials, Newbie specials or Loyalty specials using checkinmania.
February 2011
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Add CheckinMania Map Widget to your website
You can now add CheckinMania Map to your own website by adding a small snippet of code to your website. You can customize the size, you can set default location, select the services you want displayed and default service to start - Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite or Twitter.
Here is the link to customize and get the code
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Google Latitude adds Check-in
Not the typical check-in method you see in foursquare, gowalla or facebook, but some cool new optional features that will be very useful:
+ Notification to check-in once you arrive at a place
+ Automatically check-in when you arrive a particular destination
+ Automatically checks you out of place when you leave
Full details at Google Mobile Blog
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@foursquare growth in 2010 [Infograph]
December 2010
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Foursquare adds Photos and Comments feature
Photos from @Instagram, @Picplz and @FoodSpotting will be pushed to @foursquare, the new foursquare iPhone app will also support adding photos with check-ins.
New foursquare iPhone app features include:
Push notifications when your friends comment on your check-in.
Leave Tips with Photos.
Comment on your friends check-ins.
Check-in Photos and Comments are available only to friends
Tip...
October 2010
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First ever check-in from International Space...
Expedition 25 Commander Douglas H. Wheelock became the first human to ever use a location-based service from space. Doug checked in from the International Space Station and unlocked the new NASA Explorer Badge.
Read full story at foursquare blog: “One small step for man, one giant check-in for mankind”
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SCVNGR launches New Apps for iPhone and Android
Location based game app SCVNGR has launched new apps for iPhone and Android. SCVNGR now has about 500,000 users and growing fast. The iPhone app design looks a lot like facebook iPhone app with new feature including a improved activity stream, dashboard and a social map to view your friends on a map. More details can be found on the SCVNGR’s blog.
Photo via @techcrunch
August 2010
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FireFly: Check-in service for your Twitter social...
FireFly is the new Location based Check-in service that is based on Twitter Places API and uses the twitter social graph as your friends. The iPhone app design is very similar to foursquare or gowalla, you can check where your twitter friends are checked-in, you can browse nearby places and check-in, and also attach pictures with check-in. It is not clear if the it just shows friend check-ins done...
Location Based Social Networks Compared
(via @TechCrunch)
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Facebook rolls out check-in feature
Facebook today announced “Places” feature which will allow users and friends to be tagged to a location a.k.a check-in to a location.
Here are some of the features of Facebook Places:
- Check-in to a location
- Tag friends to a location
- Find friends nearby
- Post photos/messages to a place
- View people checked-in at the same location you are
- Businesses can claim ownership...
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Gowalla anounces check-in API with guidelines
Gowalla has released API to check-in users, back in February they had released APIs for all but the check-in API. Developers could only pull venue and user information but did not have the ability to do actual check-in. Gowalla’s main concern was that people could do fake check-ins using APIs, foursquare on the other hand released full APIs this lead to creation on many third party apps with...
Superfans and superusers: show your foursquare... →
So many of you have been asking how you can rock the t-shirts we wear every day here at foursquare HQ, so we made a store for you to get your own! …. read more
(via foursquare)
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Visualize your @foursquare check-ins with...
Here is an awesome web app to visualize your foursquare check-ins, login with foursquare and Weeplaces will show your movement on a map over time. At the end of the visualization you will be left with a map with all your check-ins. You can then share this visualization with friends using twitter/facebook.
However one thing I noticed was that once you login and use this app, your check-in...
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List of Foursquare Badges
(via @aboutFoursquare)
Here is a good resource for list of foursquare badges compiled by @aboutFoursquare. Read more on aboutFoursquare blog post.
a&g’s Location-Based Services Cheat Sheet
(via Allen & Gerritsen)
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MisoTrendy: Real-time foursquare trends
With this new app, you can find all the locations anywhere in the world that have people checked in currently.
The app lets you find popular locations, list of people checked-in, number of men/women checked-in, tips and stats about the venues. The app also lets you filter out location like coffee, bars or parks and find checked-in users and tips from foursquare. This app also has a mobile...
July 2010
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Foursquare Venue Search added to CheckinMania
New search feature is implemented in CheckinMania for foursquare. You can now search for specific types of foursquare venues and find checkins around. This will make it easy for example to just find out who are checking in to Starbucks around an area or look for all Starbucks Mayors. This search is only available for foursquare tab in CheckinMania. Visit CheckinMania.com and select the...
June 2010
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Twitter Places added to CheckinMania.com
Find out who are tweeting from places around you. Twitter is now one of the options available in checkinmania.com to browse places around and look for any tweets tagged with venues, you might just find some interesting comments/ reviews about the place. You can access this by going to http://checkinmania.com/twitter . Currently twitter has only enabled places for US. If you want your tweets tagged...
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UsersLike.me: Find Gowalla users who check-in at...
New web app UserLike.me helps you look up users who check-in at same locations as you checked in using Gowalla. Of course it will only work if have the privacy option turned OFF. It did not find anything initially for me, I have the privacy turned ON in Gowalla.com, worked great after I turned OFF privacy option in Gowalla settings. It also shows people who have multiple spots in common with...
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May 2010
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4 new Location based services at TechCrunch...
FriendsAround Me, WeReward, GeoToko and Scvngr are the latest new location based apps seen at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference NYC. All are location based services similar to Foursquare/Gowalla but with a slight twist.
Friends Around Me is a location based app that helps you find and meet people around you interacting with them using in app chat. It shows friends location on a map. It also has an...
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Watchφ² project - QR code Foursquare Android App
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TweetDeck for desktop adds support for Foursquare
TweetDeck release 0.34 has added support for Foursquare. You can now check-in to locations, view tips, view venue details, check friends updates and more. There is also a interactive map to view your friends check-ins and venues. TweetDeck now has support for Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and Foursquare. I’m guessing this will be available soon on the iPhone version of TweetDeck which will...
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Universal check-in app "Check.in" comes out of...
Check.in, a universal check-in web app developed by Brightkite is out of beta and open to all users today. Check.in does location matching between services and then allows users to check-in to multiple location based services. It had Brightkite, Foursquare and Gowalla during the closed beta, it has added 2 more location based services Whrrl and TriOut. It works by detecting user location by using...
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Foursquare opens up App gallery
Foursquare has just opened a App gallery for third party developers to add Apps developed using Foursquare API. Developers can now use this link to submit their app to the Foursquare gallery. You can select categories for your app which include “Mobile”, “Website”, “Plugins”, “Visualization”, “Games” and “Others”. You can add...
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Brightkite to offer deals from Starbucks and...
Brightkite has just announced on their blog that they are launching a brand partnership with Starbucks to offer deals for checked-in customers. You can now check-in to a local Starbucks using Brightkite during the Frappuccino happy hour (between 3pm and 5pm, from May7th to May 16th) and get half off on Starbucks Frappuccino. Once checked-in you can unlock your favorite Frappuccino badge to share...
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foursquare: We've just made the "Places" screen... →
We’ve made some changes in the way we list venues in the “Places” screen of our mobile apps and API. The problem with smart phones is that they’re good - but not great - at knowing exactly where you are. Also, there might be a lot of venues nearby that you are very unlikely to check into (like someone else’s apartment — which is great for them but not so much for you) that clutter up the...
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Assisted Serendipity: Get notifications for...
Foursquare powered app called “Assisted Serendipity” will send email notifications based on the check-in ratio of female/male at your favorite local venues. You sign-in with foursquare, select your favorite venues and set the male/female ratio for which you want notifications. The app will monitor these locations and will send you an email notification with the photos of checked in...
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Foursquare up and running after outages
Amazon EC2 server outage caused foursquare to be down for almost 4 hours on May 4th, most of you might have seen this image of a weeping Princess on Foursquare website (similar to the Fail Whale image displayed when Twitter is down). The issue has been resolved and the Foursquare app, website and APIs are all back up and running. Foursquare did a great job of constantly updating the status of the...
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GeoLorean iPhone App: Check-in stream aggregator
There is a new iPhone App available on App Store called GeoLorean that aggregates your friends check-in stream from Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite. It is a very simple app that helps you keep track of all your friends check-ins. There is also an option to open to Check.in web service, which lets you check-in to Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite. Check.in is still in beta currently, however...
April 2010
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Gowalla iPad App Launched
Gowalla iPad App is now available for free in the Appstore. The app is more focused on exploration and place discovery, along with all the features available on their iPhone app. One of the cool feature is the map view to explore where your friends are checked in relative to you, perfect for an iPad use case. The map will show pushpins with the picture of your friends, you can click on your...
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The Wall Street Journal teams up with Foursquare
(via WSJ)
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Foursquare to decide to sell or raise venture...
According to Bloomberg, Foursquare Co-founder and CEO, Denis Crowley has said that he will be deciding whether to sell foursquare or raise venture capital in the next 2 weeks. “we’ll have it resolved in a couple of weeks. I want to end the distractions and get back to work.”
According to TechCrunch - Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook are all trying to acquire Foursquare. Denis Crowley’s...
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Foursquare vs. Gowalla: Who struck geolocation...
Via Mashable, here is Social Analytics of Foursquare vs. Gowalla one month after SXSW. The Data Visualization and statistics of geolocation competition shows the sentiments and social mentions on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and videos. Here is the complete blog post by Mashable.
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Foursquare introduces tools for businesses
Business owners can now claim ownership of venues on foursquare to add special offers or track stats of check-ins to their venue. Business owners can now offer specials based on mayorship, check-in count or check-in frequency. Detailed real time stats are also available to track recent check-ins, frequent visitors, histogram of check-ins per day and more. They also have official foursquare...
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Spot search finally added to Gowalla iPhone app
The new Gowalla iPhone update has the search feature which will enable you to search for venues other than the ones found by proximity to the user. This was one feature that was missing in the Gowalla iPhone app that was frustrating to users. Glad to see this in the recent update. You can now search for places and look up information about the venue, look at photos, check-ins and more with out...
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SnackSquare to show Foursquare specials and deals
A new site called SnackSquare has launched a service that will show users where the foursquare specials and deals are located. Previously the only way to locate these deals was be in the neighborhood where the deals are and the Foursquare app would show the deals. SnackSquare helps you find these deals and specials easily on a map and get details so that you can plan where to go for lunch or...
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Over 150 parties planned for Foursquare Day -...
April 16th will be celebrated as Foursquare Day (4/16. i.e. 4*4=16). There are over 150 parties arranged all over the world. You can check the locations at http://4sqday.com/. Most of the parties are in the US, there are some in Europe, China, Malaysia and Australia too. Check out the map here http://4sqday.com/map.
There will be an official foursquare badge to unlock for people attending the...
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Twitter Places to challenge Foursquare and...
Twitter announced today at the chrip conference that it is planning a new feature that will link geo-tagged tweets to an actual place. Not exactly a “check-in” feature like in Foursquare or Gowalla, but twitter is trying to get into that space.
According to Business Insider, both Denis Crowley of Foursquare and Josh Williams of Gowalla don’t seem to be threatened by...
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more @Foursquare valuation talks on TWiVC
Jason Calacanis and Mark Suster talk about Foursquare valuation of $80 million and rumors about potential acquisition by Yahoo for $100 million on the first episode of This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC), Jason Calacanis’ latest podcast show.
Here is the full video of the discussion.
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First ever Check-in at the North Pole using...
Fifteen-year-old Parker Liautaud is first person to check-in at the North Pole and unlock the ‘Last Degree badge’ on Foursquare (via @Mashable). Full article here.
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CheckinMania Google 'My Maps' App available
Just created an submitted Google My Maps version of CheckinMania, (also called Google Mapplet) you can now view all checkins and tips from Foursquare and Gowalla on maps.google.com. (Just like the Foursquare Everywhere app on Bing)
Click here to add this app to your Google My Maps.
To preview the app working on Google Maps before adding, click here
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Foursquare and Gowalla iPad App screenshots
Foursquare iPad app called DashFour by Project Zebra has released iPad application, which is a map based Foursquare client. Below are few screenshots:
Below is a leaked screenshot of the Gowalla iPad app developed by Gowalla, this has been confirmed by Gowalla as a real (via TechCrunch). Below is the screenshot: