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Foursquare today launched a much-needed partnership with OpenTable to add reservation links directly to restaurant venue pages on the website. The move completes the loop between finding a place to eat with foursquare Explore and making the reservation to actually eat there. The “Make a Reservation” link appears directly below the map on venue pages,…
Foursquare’s head of business development, Tristan Walker, has announced that he’s leaving the company. Walker essentially founded foursquare’s business development role and has been instrumental in many of the company’s efforts to grow through partnerships. Walker announced the move in a blog post on his personal blog. He’s accepted a position with foursquare investor Andreessen…
Our friends at Street Fight covered a new infographic from Yext that shows the results of a study they’ve undertaken on the quality of data on a variety of local search websites. Interestingly, foursquare has the best data in some portions, but the worst data in others, giving it the overall worst rating of the bunch with 64% of listings showing incorrect information. As foursquare “pivots” to become more of a local search and recommendation engine, it’s important that they have good data, but are these numbers really accurate?
The annual NYC Big Apps competition pits developers against each other in a bid to build data-rich applications to make NYC even better. As a New York company, it’s no surprise that many of them are somehow connected to foursquare’s API. This year four of the winners have at least some connection to the foursquare…
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have analyzed foursquare check-ins to build a visualization of the way neighborhoods function in the real world. Livehoods provides a fascinating real-time look at the way neighborhoods really behave instead of the way they’re defined by the street grid, offering unique analysis possibilities for city planners and businesses. The researchers…
Chris Thompson says:
Mayor specials like this are best paired with a smaller discount...
Rudyn says:
Why are users already unlocking this? Can't they at least wait...
Eric Stumpf says:
How do you check-in if you are not in Munich?
Jack R. says:
I need the U.S. start time
Joe Davis says:
Michael:
Foursquare specials like this can encourage people to come just by...