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Things have been quite lately at Foursquare, but don’t let lack of noise fool you; the company is having some money-churning activity that when unleashed could make the social location space very exciting again. According to several reports, Foursquare is looking to add to the first three rounds of funding that has so far netted [...]
November 3rd, 2012 by Anthony West
With all the promise that the cloud brings, it still has some major kinks that can make things bad for those rely on it too heavily. Case in point is Amazon’s cloud offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS); according to reports across the web, the service has been down in North Virginia and this has caused [...]
October 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
The much talked about battle between Foursquare and LivingSocial seems to have lost its appeal but the two have been quietly building their presence in a massive way. Take Foursquare for instance, known as a location based social platform for regular users of the web, it has taken on a much wider appeal. Foursquare now [...]
August 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
So much for privacy and general disdain for big-brother-like tracking—location based services are being increasing used by Americans and many now seem to enjoy telling other people where they are at any given moment in time. New research by Pew Research & Internet Life Project found that Americans are now starting to make location base [...]
May 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Location-based service Foursquare is making huge strides and has now successfully surpassed the 20 million user mark. The landmark day was dubbed 4sqDay by Foursquare’s legion of users, and by the look of things this milestone may be eclipsed before the year is out. That’s because it was only in June of last year that [...]
May 3rd, 2012 by Anthony West
For all this talk about the growth of location based Apps like Foursquare and Google Latitude inside the US, new data is suggesting that these platforms may be more popular outside of the States. The company’s CEO was speaking recently at an event in Barcelona, Spain and revealed that more than half of Foursquare’s 15 [...]
March 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
Location based platforms are popping up all over the place, and as more and more people become less concerned about being watched and track the competition will become even hotter. Fir now though, there are only a few players. Leading the way is Foursquare, perhaps the most popular location based platform. It is increasingly facing [...]
February 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Civil libertarians and privacy advocates may think that Foursquare is a tool for control, but users on the platform don’t seem to mind at all. In fact, the opposite seems to be true and a new report is painting a picture of just how useful. A recent study from M Booth and Beyond, found that [...]
December 25th, 2011 by Anthony West
In the past few years the way people communicate and the types of communication devices they use have changed drastically. Two words pretty much sum up this change: smart phones. Basically every major phone company has come out with smart phones of their own that allow users to have internet access, access to various applications [...]
December 13th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
The foursquare app has recently hit 15 million users since its founding in 2007, which has tripled its user base since this time last year. Here’s some information about what foursquare is for those not familiar with the app, off of the foursquare website: “Foursquare makes the real world easier to use. We build tools [...]
December 11th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
The Web 2.0 transformation seems to be reaching critical mass and evidence of this can be seen in the take-up of location based services—especially in the US. Today people don’t refer to their yellow pages anymore when seeking a restaurant; they check in, and use their mobile apps to determine where to eat; where to [...]
November 16th, 2011 by Anthony West
Foursquare is an application for mobile devices, like smart phones especially, that allows users and members to connect with their fellow members in discovering new places, cities, sites, attractions, restaurants, etc in your area or around the world. People “check in” whenever they arrive at a certain city, state, town, etc and are able to [...]
October 28th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
Nothing helps a website grow like making it accessible across language barriers, and this is exactly what Foursquare has realized. And in actuality, a location based social network like Foursquare, needs to have that dynamic, cross-boundary sort of setup. In keeping with the push to ‘grow’, Foursquare has added 5 more languages to its on-the-go [...]
September 6th, 2011 by Anthony West
Facebook doesn’t fail at much that it tries, but every now and again, even the most assured tech company can fall flat on its face. The casualty of Facebook’s failure is the ‘Places’ check-in feature introduced over 12 months ago. The service simply didn’t take off as expected, and many people complained about the feature. [...]
August 29th, 2011 by Anthony West
Foursquare allows users to “check-in” at their favorite local venues on mobile Internet devices. For many people, Foursquare is a social media game to earn badges, become a mayor, etc. Yet, there are definite benefits and drawbacks of this type of Internet sharing. Real Life Connections Foursquare helps facilitate meetings with friends, or avoid them [...]
August 25th, 2011 by Tony Smith
The latest addition to the Foursquare user base is no other than the President of the United States, Barak Obama, but is Foursquare satisfied? No way, the location base social network is all about growth, growth and more growth. In an effort to ramp up this growth, Foursquare has been adding feature after feature to [...]
August 21st, 2011 by Anthony West
Dennis Crowley coolly announced today that the company he co-founded, Foursquare, is now seeing over 3 million check-ins a day. This is big news, though you wouldn’t believe it if you didn’t know that wearing a grey sweatshirt is the tech-mogul’s equivalent of a suit and tie. Mr Crowley made the announcement on Bloomberg Television, [...]
August 4th, 2011 by Anthony West
Popular location based social network Foursquare has just revealed that they now have 10 million people using their service. The company is happy about this achievement considering the fact that they started two years ago with only two employees. People use Foursquare to check-in to locations and gather points in doing so. Successive check-ins to [...]
June 23rd, 2011 by Chad Buenaflor
