World of Fourcraft turns Foursquare into city wide game of Risk

Something like this would get me to use Foursquare every minute of every day. via Mashable: World of Fourcraft uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking [...]

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Posted: Jun 30 2011
Tags: app development, apps, cool, Foursquare, geolocation, geosocial networking, global, social gaming, social media, social media trends, web design, web development
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Foursquare experimenting with NFC check-ins for Google I/O

From the Foursquare Blog

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Posted: May 10 2011
Tags: apps, checkins, Foursquare, geosocial networking, near field communications, news, social media, technology, trends
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The game layer on top of the world

Check out this fantastic TED talk by Seth Priebatsch, self-described Chief Ninja of geosocial smartphone app SCVNGR. Briefly, Seth says that last decade was all about social, with Facebook’s Open Graph taking precedence as the preferred framework. But this decade…

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Posted: Sep 09 2010
Tags: apps, Foursquare, gaming, geosocial networking, mobile games, smartphone, social media, TED, trends
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Mobocracy – the battles for Foursquare mayorships

Foursquare hooks users by offering mayorships – badges for users who checkin most at Foursquare locations. Check out this video documenting the struggle over the mayorship of a Mexican eatery near the Foursquare offices in NYC. The Deepend office in…

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Posted: Sep 03 2010
Tags: apps, Foursquare, gaming, geolocation, geosocial networking, mobile games, social media
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The geosocial universe

Jesse Thomas’ geosocial network map shows the number of users of each service and the percentage of those that use mobile access. 1/3 of Facebook’s 500 million users use their mobiles to network, whereas the larger (590 million users) Skype…

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Posted: Sep 03 2010
Tags: apps, Facebook, Foursquare, geolocation, geosocial networking, Gowalla, infographic, Skype, smartphone, social media, trends
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Digital dining

Foursquare has already made weekends competitive as users vie to check in at the trendiest bars and schmickest restaurants. Now get ready for the competitive lunch hour, as new food chain 4Food introduces the burger combo scoreboard. 4Food is a…

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Posted: Sep 03 2010
Tags: app development, apps, Facebook, food, Foursquare, gaming, mobile games, retail, smartphone, social media, Twitter

New app knows where you shop

Shopkick is a new smartphone app that tracks customers through their phones with a degree of accuracy that determines whether you are window-shopping outside, browsing items or in the change rooms and offers incentives accordingly. For example, if you are…

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Posted: Aug 27 2010
Tags: app development, apps, checkin, Foursquare, geolocation, iPhone, retail, Shopkick, smartphone, trends
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Badge envy

Collecting badges is probably the most addictive feature of Foursquare; an opportunity to revert to the Scouts and Brownies mentality of completing relatively pointless tasks to earn kudos in the form of a little patch. I think I had a Footpath…

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Posted: Aug 27 2010
Tags: app development, apps, Foursquare, geosocial networking, mobile games, smartphone, social media, trends
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