October 2009
12 posts
WatchThis 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. :)
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
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Great interview / piece on foursquare from the...
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...
Announcing the foursquare angel roster...
A little less than a month ago when we announced that we raised some seed financing from USV and OATV, we alluded to some of the angel investors we also brought onboard. We wanted to take a minute and give a shout-out to our angels and all the support they’ve given us so far.
Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter. Twitter has changed the way a lot of us think about things - presence, status,...
WatchA foursquare reference on The Simpsons??? In an episode heavy on Twitter / Facebook references, Lisa quips: “No one plays foursquare, they just gossip!”
I’m 50/50 on whether it was a nod to us - and if so, it’s a a total dig - but whatevs!
Little backstory: Kate Bauer pings me via text (“they just foursquared on the simpsons!”), I tweet it out, flip thru the...
