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While the percentage of people actively sharing their location may still be pretty small , it feels like we’re zooming toward an event horizon, beyond which everyone will be opting in - and checking in - to location services like Foursquare , Places , and others . Skeptics about the uptake of location services remain, but I’m not one of them. You might, like Sam Diaz, appreciate a good deal (count me in on that point too). Or perhaps you’re a parent in search of an impromptu play date, a businessperson in search of leads or networking, a hipster in search of the night’s hotspot, a techie who enjoys following in Mark Zuckerberg’s culinary wake , or anyone attempting to sync up with a friend or colleague’s schedule and connect in the real world. Like other online activities, location sharing’s privacy tradeoff ultimately is (or will be, for a great many) overcome by its payoff in convenience, perks, and timely, relevant information.
Foursquare Targets College Students with New Universities Program
Foursquare announced the rollout its Foursquare for Universities program Thursday afternoon, designed to help students, alumni and staff share information about classes, building hours, campus activities and traditions, and other information. Late nights at the library are now a little bit better thanks to the geosocial service, which will reward you in badges what you missed in sleep (depending on how much value you put on virtual badges, anyways). And if you start to see more compsci majors at the Homecoming football game this season, you can thank Foursquare’s school spirit badge for that, too.Foursquare CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley spoke on how the location-based service plans to dominate “ what happens after the checkin ” at Wednesday’s ad:tech conference. Crowley delivered his remarks on the same day Facebook made several major announcements about its Places product . While Crowley still sees the checkin as a necessary component of Foursquare’s service, he believes the real value of location-based services begins after that entry point. “We talk a lot about what’s after the checkin,” explained Crowley. “What’s after, in the first version at least, [is] ‘ok, let’s do tips.’
Foursquare: A Glimpse at the Future
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Foursquare vs. Gowalla: Who’s Winning the Geolocation War? | NetSparsh ~ Entertainment Unlimited
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Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places . Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare ? That’s the question we posed in this week’s Web Faceoff , our ongoing series comparing technology apps or ideas. We asked you which location-based service you preferred: Facebook Places or Foursquare ?
Foursquare Beats Facebook Places in Reader Vote
How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker | Technology | The Guardian
Louise has straight, auburn hair and, judging by the only photograph I have of her, she's in her 30s. She works in recruitment. I also know which train station she uses regularly, what supermarket she shopped at last night and where she met her friends for a meal in her home town last week.
Foursquare announced a new partnership today, hinting at how the startup’s ambitions extend beyond location check-ins. The new partnership is with Runkeeper , a mobile application for tracking your running and jogging activity. When users connect their accounts, they can earn Foursquare badges for their activity in Runkeeper, for example earning a Marathon badge when they run a marathon. Foursquare says this is “the first badge you unlock by doing something, not just checking in.” That also means the badges won’t really be connected to your location, at least not in the way Foursquare’s other badges are — you earn a Gym Rat badge by going to the gym, while you earn Runkeeper badges by running anywhere.