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!
Don’t forget to leave a comment for chance at $25 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card! Sorry the podcast link isn’t currently working, we’ll get it fixed shortly! Thanks for listening!
This link should work until I can get itonto our servers:
https://dl.dropbox.com/0/view/0ntovqmr0ag1ivp/AboutFoursquare%20Podcast%20Episode%2028/AboutFoursquare%20Episode%2062.mp3
In it to win it on that DD gift card.
I’m hoping for more AmEx promos. I’d love to get a badge as I spend.
What happened to the out-take??? I listened to the whole recording, and it was not chopped at the end… reminded me of how it goes down after we end the recording… Rock on!
oh man, you’re telling me I gotta listen to it and see what they left in?
<3 Dunkin'
Sweet. Thank You Dunkin Donuts for helping make AboutFoursquare a great site. Send me some Boston Creme Donuts, please!
For what I’ve spent at the local Dunk I’m Mayor of, I should be owner too !!
Anyway, here’s my entry for a DD $25.00 gift card !! Yummm!
And while I’m here,
can someone steer
me to where I can add a profile pic?
Profile pics are “Globally Recognized Avatars” and can be managed here: http://en.gravatar.com/
I am an obsessive foursquare badge hoarder, and love this blog!
My go-to blog for up to date foursquare info!!
Does anyone commonly have problems downloading with the Podcaster App?
Thanks
Oh yeah, Dunkin Donuts is legit!!!
I work with Nicole so she owes me some donuts
lemme get some donuts
i <3 D&D!
nice