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For a while I've been meaning to buy a birthday card. We've got some at home but this one needed to be special. But I kept forgetting (doh!) I even went to the big newsagent in Newport (WHSmith) and bought some printer cartridges....but I forgot I needed the dagnammit birthday card.
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Foursquare now lets venue managers impeach their mayors
One of the biggest reasons businesses name for not setting up a foursquare special is cheating, especially for mayorships. Foursquare now lets venue managers revoke the mayorship of their venue, either by adding the mayor as an employee or for “other reasons.” Managers of many venues, especially small businesses, know their regular clientele. If someone checks in there often enough, it’s likely that the manager would at least recognize their face. If a manager sees a mayor they don’t recognize as a regular, there’s been no way to report that person as a potential cheater without going through foursquare’s overworked business support channel on a case-by-case basis.
tp://www.mizzinformation.com/2010/07/5-reasons-why-foursquare-wont-be.html
lorirtaylor ~ 2 years ago from Tweet Share Top Tweets Rating: ( +1 )I’ve spent the past three days with elevated blood pressure, shaking hands and having nightmares about my friends checking in and out of new locations and cluttering up my Twitter feed. People can’t stop talking about how FourSquare is changing the world and I’m afraid I might hurt myself. All of a sudden I’m like a resistant Twitterer in the year 2007. I hate FourSquare and I’m not afraid to say it! I know there’s been lots of Twitter debating and fighting this week, but I want to have a civil discussion, okay? First let me back up a bit.
Cool Or Not Cool: FourSquare Divides The Web
Foursquare Beats Twitter to Local Advertising Goldmine
Foursquare is the mobile social game that you play by checking in at various locales while out and about. The location-based application has managed to strip the fat out of other location-aware mobile ideas, find just the right formula for encouraging check-ins, and hit at the right time. Now, they’re sitting pretty with funding and a trajectory that resembles Twitter’s rise to glory .
One of the most compelling aspects of the location-based service Foursquare is that they are increasingly enticing users to check-in to venues by partnering up to offer special deals to those who do. A person who checks-in at a coffee shop and shows the barista, may get a free coffee, for example. It’s a win-win for both the service and the venue because it gets people using the app more and gets people visiting the venue more. But what if users and venues go around Foursquare and start using Twitter for that? That has started to happen recently, as venues are getting wise to the idea of using these special deals.
Cheap Beer If You Check-In… Or Just Tweet.