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Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch.
(Founder Stories) Dennis Crowley On The Origins Of Foursquare
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Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog.
(Founder Stories) Foursquare’s Crowley: “Now Is Our Best Shot To Invent The Future”
When Dennis Crowley, the CEO of Foursquare, visited the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last year, he told me he spent a lot of time explaining Foursquare to the operators and vendors that are the main visitors at this event. This year, he said the number of business cards he was handed was “like this,” making a big C-shape with his index finger and thumb.
Foursquare’s Inflection Point: People Using The App, But Not Checking In | TechCrunch
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Inside Foursquare: Checking In Before the Party Started (Part I) (Corrected) | Epicenter | Wired.com (Build 20100722155716)
Shane Snow has been bothering the Foursquare crew since before the startup was funded and became the internet’s darling du jour. A student at Columbia’s School of Journalism at the time, Snow was in the room during key moments in the company’s early history, and was granted more than 30 exclusive interviews over the course of six months. This is the first installment of a two-part series chronicling Snow’s inside view of the birth of Foursquare, one of the most talked-about tech companies of 2010.
Even though everyone in the tech world has been checking in with Foursquare and Gowalla for what seems like forever, does anyone outside of our bubble know what our darling location applications are, and what they do? A new report from Forrester should pour some cold water on the massive hype around the supposed mainstream status of Gowalla and Foursquare. To make it plain, this was the question that Forrester put to ‘online adults:’ “To what extent are you familiar with gelocation applications like Foursquare and Gowalla that you can access on a mobile phone?”
Reality Check – Nearly No One Knows What A “Foursquare” Is (Build 20100722155716)
Foursquare has clearly picked up a lot of traction in the past year, but there’s been some mounting evidence recently that they are really about to hit a big tipping point . These little touch points are important harbingers. When they get populous enough, they tend to be in the process of merging together into a mainstream brand that will display incredible inherent velocity. I remember this point in our adoption cycle from HotJobs . In the very early days, we had a sales gong for every time we sold an account to a recruiter.
Watching Foursquare Cross the Chasm
Over the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare , a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball. Some of them will literally pull out their phones as soon as they enter any restaurant, event or even TechCrunch HQ and check in just so they can be named ‘mayor’ of that establishment (whoever checks into any particular location the most times becomes mayor of that location). It’s fascinating and a bit bizarre to watch, and it clearly shows that Foursquare has tapped into something powerful. But all this time I’ve had a nagging feeling that Foursquare, at least in its current form, is not going to be the next Twitter , as some people have concluded.
Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo
About 30 million people have tried Facebook places, a single source who works with Facebook tells us.
Foursquare Doomed? Facebook Places Has 7X More Users
Foursquare is still whipping Facebook in the world of checkins, according to a set of data we've collected for the last month. Once a week we looked at the checkin stats for three popular restaurants near our office -- Gramercy Tavern, Craft Bar, and Shake Shack. Shake Shack in particular is the sort of place people want to checkin at.
Foursquare's Weekly Checkins Are 5X As Big As Facebook's
Foursquare Now 3 Million Strong
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn MoreNous y sommes: le geomobile guide a passé la barre des 3 millions de curieux.
Foursquare dépasse les 3 millions
Foursquare Will Hit 4 Million Members This Week
Foursquare is set to hit 4 million members this week, a source close to the company has revealed to Mashable . The milestone member metric comes roughly 50 days after the location-based mobile game signed on its 3 millionth user. By our calculations, Foursquare is now adding close to 20,000 users per day, up significantly from the estimated 15,500 per day rate near the time the startup hit 3 million members. This comes in spite of the startup’s much publicized service hiccups earlier in the month. About Foursquare previously reported that, judging by user IDs, Foursquare has already signed up its 4 millionth member. The user ID measurement is a close approximation, but the achievement will officially happen within the next few days, we hear.Foursquare Boasts 4.5 Million Users, Opens West Coast Office
Location-based social network Foursquare announced Monday that it has registered more than 4.5 million users. To complement its growth, the startup has also opened an office in San Francisco.Foursquare Labs Inc. CEO Dennis Crowley said the company is focused on increasing user numbers for now, rather than generating sales, as it confronts competition from Facebook Inc. "We're currently not in that mode where we're building salespeople and filling the desks," Crowley said in an interview at Bloomberg's San Francisco offices.
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