About Foursquare Podcast: Episode 62
Welcome to the About Foursquare podcast! Each week, our podcast hosts Ching Yu and Eric Leist recap the latest foursquare news. This week they were joined by Nicole Buergers of Foursquare Houston.
After taking a week off last week, they had a lot to cover:
- New badges: MTS Cine Tuesdays, Super Swarm Sunday, Milano de bare
- City badge winners announced: Baltimore, Des Moines, Stamford, Oklahoma City, Richmond
- Pizza Hut teams with American Express for Super Swarm Sunday discount
- Foursquare’s lists create a crowd-sourced travel guide to the US
- Superusers can edit claimed venues again, as long as they’re not actively monitored
- Statistics emails for venue managers
- New Yorkers get post-Super Bowl bonus points
- 3 bonus points for checking in at a library on Dickens’s birthday
- Superusers recognized on their profiles
- Garmin GPS app for iPhone integrate with foursquare
- New iPhone and Android apps feature a beefed up Explore, plus Android Beam support and new photo privacy controls
- Scene Near Me points out nearby movie locations in NYC
- Taxonomy is the Swiss Army knife of taxi tools
- Waze 3.0 hits Android, 3.1 for iPhone can text friends if you’re late
The podcast is available on iTunes, Stitcher or as its own RSS feed. Be sure to subscribe to get the latest episode each week!
We’re excited to have Dunkin’ Donuts (American Runs on Dunkin’) as our sponsor. Comment on this blog post and we’ll draw a winner from among all the podcast comments each month to win a $25 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card. Thanks to DC Dunkin’ and Dunkin’ Donuts for joining us!
