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Nov
4th

Wed

Eurotrip.

We launched our latest round of cities today — this time all across Europe. We’re introducing 15 new cities to bring our full total to 53! The full Europe list now:

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Athens, Greece
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Brussels, Belgium
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dublin, Ireland
Geneva, Switzerland
Helsinki, Finland
London, UK
Madrid, Spain
Manchester, UK
Munich, Germany
Paris, France
Prague, Czech Republic
Rome, Italy
Stockholm, Sweden

We’re choosing which cities to launch next based on the feedback you leave on our suggested cities list (http://foursquare.com/cities). Drop your vote there; we’re slowly ramping up to lots more places around the world!

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Oct
31st

Sat

And the first of the foursquare halloween costumes :)

Just saw this tweet from my friend @heathercapri:

“Look! @elaineellis is a foursquare scout! Look at all those badges she’s earned! No wonder she’s mayor”

More:

http://brightkite.com/objects/1e84bec1f9fe3264109b724ca8b842d5?referer=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F

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Oct
29th

Thu

Hey hey - anyone notice our new “Places” screen on the iPhone? :) We tweaked the way we show nearby places, so we can call attention to your favorites vs. your friends’ favorites vs. everything else that’s nearby.

A small tweak, but this should fix the “foursquare never knows where I am!” bugs we’ve been hearing about. We’re finding it’s also a great way to find out about places you’re friends frequent that you haven’t had a chance to check out yet.

Anyway, play with it tonight and let us know what you think! As we’re getting closer to our code re-write you should see lots more little improvements like this coming from us.

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Have you seen this video? It’s from a subway station in Stockholm, Sweden where some designers were trying to create an incentive for people to skip the escalator and take the stairs. Their solution was to turn the steps into a piano where each step would play a different musical note - basically creating a way to make the taking the stairs more fun than taking the escalator. And it worked.

I feel like this is also what we’re trying to do at foursquare - how do you make exploring cities / meeting up with friends / discovering new places more fun?

Last week we announced a partnership with San Francisco’s BART (the mass transit system) that let’s foursquare users earn badges for riding public transportation, unlock tips about the interesting coffee shops, music stores, etc you can find near BART stations and even win free train tickets on BART trains for checking-in.

… and just like the piano steps that make taking the stairs more fun than taking the escalator, we’re trying to make taking public transport more fun than being stuck in highway traffic. :)

We’re loving this and hopes it foreshadows the types of things we’re thinking about and the types of experiences we’re planning on creating.

Official press release from BART: http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20091022.aspx

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Oct
20th

Tue

Amazing stuff from Mari, our superstar designer. (Marz, you should sell prints!)

(via marsbot)

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Oct
19th

Mon

Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post (via Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face - NYTimes.com)

“It’s planned serendipity,” said Emily Woolf, 24, a strategic planner living in Brooklyn who checks in on Foursquare when she wants to grab coffee or a drink with friends. “At this point, I don’t even bother texting or calling my friends. I just check Foursquare to see if they’re nearby and go meet them.”

Great piece by @jennydeluxe on foursquare in The New York Times, our first “Big Media” piece so far.

Special thx to @emii @anniemal @SugarMamas @stribs @newyorkcubic who all got shoutouts in the piece!

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Oct
18th

Sun

This guy in London (@iamdanw) hacked together a way to check-in to places on foursquare using an Oyster Card (aka UK Metrocard) and an RFID reader. Awesome.

http://vimeo.com/7068682

All this and we haven’t ever formally released our API yet. :)

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Oct
15th

Thu

foursquare taking North America by storm!

Hey all -

We launched another round of cities today - 15 new cities total - and our biggest round so far! Check out the list below…

UNITED STATES
Baltimore, MD
Cleveland, OH
Indianapolis, IN
Kansas City, MO
Milwaukee, WI
New Orleans, LA
Omaha, NE
Pittsburgh, PA
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Richmond, VA
Salt Lake City, UT
San Antonio, TX
St. Louis, MO

CANADA
Montreal, Canada
Toronto, Canada

… which brings is to 38 total! Just so you know, we choose which cities to launch based on the feedback we get from users, so thanks to everyone who suggested their city. And if your hometown didn’t make the list this time, stay tuned… we’re just getting warmed up over here :)

Thanks again for all your support!

- Team foursquare (@dens @naveen @harryh @nathanfolkman @tristanwalker)

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Oct
10th

Sat

Great interview / piece on foursquare from the girls at DesignGlut.com

What kind of feedback have you gotten?
Dennis: It’s a lot like the feedback Twitter got early on. I don’t know if that’s encouraging or just to be expected. People say, “I hate it, I would never use this.”
Naveen: Well, more like, “What’s this for? Why would I use this?”
Dennis: And then people come back to it. “OK I tried it, now I’m kind of hooked.” There’s definitely that same hater-to-hardcore-user cycle. So we want to encourage people to sign up and play around with it! And let us know what you think – a lot of the decisions that we make about what we’re going to build next come directly from the users. The more feedback that we get from people, the better.

Read the rest here:

Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, the founders of Foursquare | Design Glut

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Really digging @Elizabeth’s foursquare stationary! (“From the desk of the mayor”). Be sure to check out some of her other designs too: http://twitpic.com/kwkmv

BTW, in case you were wondering, our superstar designer is @mari18 (Tumblr too!)

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