Tag: foursquare

Foursquare hits 10,000,000 members

Foursquare hits 10,000,000 members

June 21, 2011

The location-based social network Foursquare announced today that they had broken the 8-digit user mark. To commemorate, they created the...

The Big Questions 7 Social Media Sites Must Answer in 2011

The Big Questions 7 Social Media Sites Must Answer in 2011

November 18, 2022

To say social media will be bigger in 2011 is like saying a 5-year-old will be bigger when she's 6-years-old....

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Foursquare

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Foursquare

November 23, 2010

Criticisms of online services as terrible, soul-destroying corruptions of a once pristine glorious past have become so common now, they're...

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

August 21, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfX_ZQag1BM Chances are, by now, you've taken Facebook Places for a spin. If you haven't, Facebook really, really wants you...

Foursquare Will Find You. No Matter What.

Foursquare Will Find You. No Matter What.

July 19, 2010

Foursquare's looking for a search suitor, and Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are all on board to whisper sweet nothings into...

How Foursquare Will Become the Google of Local

How Foursquare Will Become the Google of Local

July 8, 2010

On the web, small, seemingly insignificant things can have incredibly wide-reaching effects. A small ad placed next to a search...

World’s First Anti-Social Network Lets You Steer Clear of Jerks

World’s First Anti-Social Network Lets You Steer Clear of Jerks

June 26, 2010

As internet folk, we probably all have at least one friend who's incurably addicted to Foursquare. I definitely do. Steve,...

Why Location Apps Are The Next Big Thing

Why Location Apps Are The Next Big Thing

June 1, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLLqdizxTs When Twitter finally hit the mainstream press in 2009, you could essentially predict the comments on every fluff piece...

SCVNGR: Geo-Tagging Just Got Unpronounceable

SCVNGR: Geo-Tagging Just Got Unpronounceable

May 13, 2010

Foursquare's gonna have to step its game up. Unwisely-spelled geo-tagging doodad SCVNGR (I was pronouncing it 'sick vinegar' in my...

Foursquare Day: Word of Mouth Advertising is Back

Foursquare Day: Word of Mouth Advertising is Back

April 16, 2010

If you're already a member of Foursquare, you know damn well it's Foursquare Day, and have probably already been 'playing'...

Foursquare To Crack Down on Cheaters. Wait, People Cheat at Foursquare?

Foursquare To Crack Down on Cheaters. Wait, People Cheat at Foursquare?

January 30, 2024

You know, non-techies will often deride users of Twitter or Facebook and other social media for 'having no life' -...

Foursquare Integration One More Reason Not to Laugh at Bing

Foursquare Integration One More Reason Not to Laugh at Bing

March 25, 2010

When Bing first launched, we all treated it a little like the little engine that couldn't; why, we all asked,...