Posts Tagged ‘Foursquare’

The American check-in and geotagging service Foursquare is working together with the Deutsche Telekom for its start in Germany, and will be integrated into their service, according to the blog Netzwertig. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though we usually don’t hear any interesting news about Foursquare, there is always the occasional For the first time, an astronaut, Douglas H. Weelock, has checked in using Foursquare – and not on the Earth, but on board the International Space Station (ISS). Read the rest of this entry »

The German Facebook community can as of today use the new location-based feature Places. With this, people can let their friends know where they are and find out if anyone else is coincidentally in the area. Read the rest of this entry »

Who ever said that? There are some good ideas from the check-in providers. Gifi is a good example: with their iPhone App, one can donate gifts to friends when one checks into a certain location on Foursquare. Read the rest of this entry »

Check-ins were once the hit when it came to location-based services. But we all know how it works out for hits: even they wear out. Foursquare is now trying to make a comeback with the 2.0 version of their app. They’re bringing a few new ideas in and a lot of disappointments. Read the rest of this entry »

Even if – or maybe even because – Facebook just fueled the check-in hype with Places, the veterans in the market, Foursquare and Gowalla, are being as boring as rocks. At least Foursquare wants to release a new feature, though. Read the rest of this entry »

What if SMEs and SOHOs suddenly had a new means of direct marketing literally in the palm of their hands? Thanks to Mark McCormack’s new website, uPromote.it, this is possible.

The principle behind the concept is that promotions can be created with just a few steps using a mobile device, proceeding to be quickly distributed to a broad range of points including Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and Email.

Though the marketing is primarily focused on current customers, the contacts of those customers are also easily accessed through social networking. In other words, there is an unlimited amount of potential customers to be accessed.

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Check-ins have actually always been social: whether through Foursquare, Gowalla, and whatever other programs that are out there, checking-in and letting your friends know where you are and what you’re up to is just about the most “social” feature available by location-based sevices. So what does it mean when competitor SCVNGR is talking about “social check-ins?” Read the rest of this entry »

In an interview with CkickZ News, Foursquare has officially denied that there are no plans for any data partnerships with Google, Yahoo, or Bing as reported by the Daily Telegraph. Read the rest of this entry »

Foursquare was given an estimated net worth of 100 million US Dollars by investors, who decided to pump in an additional 20 million into the American company. With such a strong support system, the company can surely rest a bit more soundly, but the location-based check-in service will need to use their new capital wisely if they want to keep up with their competitors. Foursquare apparently is one step ahead of us and already has an idea of how to make itself stand out in the crowd: the gaming element of the service should be getting a major facelift to become more entertaining for the user. This information was confirmed by Foursquare engineer Anoop Ranganath in “The Big Money’s Disrupters” podcast. Read the rest of this entry »