An unofficial blog covering foursquare badges, news and apps
For a mobile-first company, foursquare sure has been adding a lot of features to their desktop site lately that aren’t duplicated in the mobile apps. The latest is the addition of a link to nearby recommendations on each venue page. Visitors will now see a link to explore nearby restaurants, shops, nightlife and “top picks,”…
Almost two years after the launch of Facebook Places, foursquare has finally activated native Facebook place tagging when you choose to share check-ins with your Facebook friends. Like standard Facebook check-ins (or place tags), your foursquare check-ins now appear on the Facebook map found at the top of user timelines. Any photos posted with the…
Last month, foursquare found themselves embroiled in a privacy row after CultofMac reported about an app that was using publicly available foursquare data to find girls (or guys) in a particular area. Foursquare moved quickly to ban the app from using their API, but had no way to prevent new apps from popping up and…
Foursquare’s history page hides one of the service’s hidden gems: the feeds page. It provides three feeds of all your check-ins in standard internet formats, making it easy to integrate foursquare with all sorts of other tools. The feeds date to a time before developers were building applications on the foursquare API, which makes it easier…
For a lot of users, one of the most important reasons for checking in is keeping a personal history of all the places you’ve been so you can refer to it later. Foursquare’s history feature, however, has been the only part of the service that’s remained largely unchanged since foursquare launched in 2009. Its reverse…
mojaam says:
Heck yeh, I always wished there was a way to utilize...
Dwayne Kilbourne says:
Good points... I am curious to see what is going on...
Ashley says:
Interesting! I can be a jumper for a day if I...
JR Vazquez says:
Love dunkin! love this podcast
Sassy says:
My step-daughters teacher is going to be a Torchbearer too!