6Foursquare Apps We'd Loveto See. Foursquare is one of the crucial new social networks to keep tabs on, and for entrepreneur types, the recent release of its open API is big news. It may be time for developers to start shifting away from Twitter and start tinkering with something a bit more Square. Here are 6 Foursquare apps we'd like to see developed. What other location-based apps would you like to see take advantage of the Foursquare API? Let us know in the comments. 1. MenuSquare When you check in at a restaurant on Foursquare, you can see what feedback your friends and others have left. 2.
Building on the aforementioned menu idea, how about being able to order food from your smartphone, using Foursquare as the backdrop? 3. Not all our friends are on Foursquare, and many of yours probably aren't either. 4. We don't generally sit around tapping refresh on our phone to see where everyone's at on Foursquare. 5. Teens and party-going twenty-somethings have plenty of disposable income to make this app worthwhile. 6. Fourface. Fourface Is Foursquare As Modern Art. One common complaint about Foursquare is that in a increasingly crowded location-based space, it’s not pretty enough when compared to the likes of Brightkite and Gowalla.
The new iPhone app launching soon should help that. But for some, it still won’t be enough. Those people should definitely check out Fourface. Fourface is a free iPhone app built using Foursquare’s API. Another view, Spots, allows you to click on different areas to see how many people are there (represented by different color bubbles), or get a list of names for who is actually at the venue. Fourface is the work of Nodesnoop, a Los Angeles-based iPhone app house that also makes a couple games for the platform.
You can find Fourface in the App Store here. Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere. With the SXSW conference approaching in Austin, we are seeing a lot of geo-location launching this year. A lot of startups are taking advantage of Foursquare’s APIs in particular to get their geo apps quickly out of the gate. Take FourWhere. It is a pretty basic mashup of Foursquare comments and venues overlayed on Google Maps. You can search by city and neighborhood, and see all the recent tips from people who have checked into various nearby restaurants, bars, stores, and offices. The site forces you to right-click to see comments or venues instead of just having a menu in the side, but it does the job.
I’m kind of surprised Foursquare doesn’t offer the exact same functionality, but that’s what APIs are for. Nodesnoop Labs. Mayor War - Virtual Warfare on Real World Locations. Mayor War (mayor_war) FourWhere: start discovering the world around you (by sysomos) Products - Social Media Monitoring and Social Media Analytics So. Sysomos is redefining social media analytics with a powerful product suite that provides customers with the tools to measure, monitor, understand and engage with the social media landscape. Sysomos provides instant access to all social media conversations from blogs, social networks and micro-blogging services to forums, video sites and media sources. Business Intelligence for Social Media MAP is Sysomos' flagship product, offering customers the ability to analyze and understand social media conversations.
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Heartbeat organizes conversations, manages workflow, facilitates collaboration, and provides ways to engage with key influencers. FourWhere Mashes Up Foursquare and Google Maps. Sooner or later, every popular web service with an API spawns a Google Maps mashup. FourWhere, which launches today, combines data from the increasingly popular location-based social network Foursquare with a Google Maps-based interface. Thanks to this, you can now easily find Foursquare venues around your current location or a location you plan to visit. The site was developed by social media analytics service Sysomos. The FourWhere service itself is pretty basic. You simply browse the Google Maps interface and a right-click anywhere on the map will bring up a menu that allows you to either see nearby venues on the map or user comments about these nearby venues. In the future, Sysomos also plans to add additional services based on the company's extensive database of social media sources.
First Step Towards Integrating LBS Analytics Into Sysomos' Main Services. UpNext 3d Cities: The Future of Mobile Maps. Upnext (upnext) UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare Checkins, And CityG. One of the most detailed 3-D mapping apps on the iPhone is UpNext, which lets you click on 3-D buildings and see a list of the businesses and offices inside. Up until now, however, it only covered New York City. A new update adds three new cities: Boston, Washington, D.C., and Austin (just in time for SXSW, of course). The Austin map won’t be available until later tonight, where it will appear in the app’s city selection screen. UpNext lets you zoom around the city in a very Google Earth-like fashion, search for restaurants, bars, and stores. You can favorite and bookmark different venues, see Citysearch and Yelp reviews, and broadcast a tip about the place through Facebook or Twitter.
UpNext now pulls in local listings data (addresses, phone numbers, reviews,menus, websites, photos) from CityGrid, Citysearch’s local content and advertising network. And what would an Austin update be without Foursquare integration. Here’s a video demo showing off all the features of the app: UpNext 3d Cities iPhone App. Foursquare app gallery. 4mapper - Mapping foursquare. Avoidr. Foursquare Plugin Lets You Avoid Foes and Exes [APP] It's something everyone dreads upon breaking up or having a falling out with a friend: the inevitable run-in. You're out on the town and then BAM, a night can be ruined by a former friend's face. Well, now you can circumvent all that heartache with a clever new web app that's basically the anti-Foursquare: Avoidr. According to New York Magazine's Daily Intel, Avoidr was created by San Francisco–based technologist Jesper Andersen after seeing a bunch of his friends go through breakups.
Basically, the app works as a plugin for your Foursquare account (much like apps like Assisted Serendipity, but even more simple). Check out what it looks like below.