April 2010
14 posts
The follow-up to our "mayorships from your couch"...
Hmm… we posted a follow-up to some of the questions folks were having about our efforts to thwart “cheat” checkins.  Looks like the comment didn’t take (having some problems w/ Disqus - stay tuned), so here it is re-posted: —- Hey all -  First of all, I can’t tell you how psyched we are to see so many people passionate about foursquare - this is crazy!...
Apr 8th
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On foursquare, cheating, and claiming mayorships...
Hey all - Some of you may have noticed that we rolled out the first version of our “cheater code” - an attempt to catch some of the folks that are checking in from their couches to steal mayorships.  Since last summer, this has been one of our most requested features and has been one of the trickiest to get just right. What we’d like to do is award points, mayorships and badges...
Apr 7th
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March 2010
12 posts
Mar 25th
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WatchWatch
This was amazing. dpstyles: Working late. Just got a Skype call from 200 people in a Chicago bar that wanted to sing happy bday to @foursquare. Amazing! After we hung up Skype call, I called the bar in Chicago and ordered 100 shots for everyone in the room. That’s how 4SQ rolls! Here’s the video of me + Tim (and Gordon from Hard Candy Shell) Skyping, singing happy bday and toasting all the...
Mar 25th
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Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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Mar 15th
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Happy birthday, foursquare.
It was exactly a year ago when Naveen and I flipped the switch on foursquare.  It was the day before we headed down to SXSW - back when we were still feeling 50/50 on whether people would think the “let’s turn real life into a game!” idea was really interesting or whether they’d laugh us out of Austin. We took separate flights.  I remember walking down the tarmac into the...
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 10th
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In case you were wondering, this is how we roll.
» Tristan Walker can sympathize with restaurant operators’ multitasking demands. The 25-year-old Foursquare exec — who doesn’t have an official title but simply “runs business development” — is striking deals between Foursquare and big partners like Bravo TV, Zagat Survey and The New York Times while going for his MBA at Stanford University. Ha!  Way to go Tristan!  [whole...
Mar 7th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 2nd
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February 2010
5 posts
Feb 26th
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Can we interest you in a new version of the...
Hey all - We’re working 100 mph over here this week!  Can we interest you in an update to foursquare for BlackBerry? If you already have the BlackBerry app  installed, just open it up and it should automatically update to our newest version (v1.5.5). If you haven’t downloaded the BlackBerry app yet (or if your app didn’t auto-update), you can download it here. And so...
Feb 25th
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WatchWatch
Have you seen the promos Bravo TV is running to plug their foursquare tie-in?  They gave us a heads up that there we going to create a spot and run it during their prime time programming, but we had no idea it would be this *amazing* 20 second spot w/ crazy celeb cameos! Special thanks for Bravo for being so awesome and if you haven’t signed up for to follow Bravo on foursquare, get to it! ...
Feb 25th
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On foursquare, location & privacy...
Why hello! A lot of you are asking for our thoughts in light of the “People can use foursquare to rob houses!” thesis making the rounds so we figured we’d weigh in with our perspective.  Two things: #1. We take your privacy very seriously.  That’s why every time you checkin we ask you whether you want to share your location with your friends, whether you want to push it...
Feb 19th
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foursquare is teaming up with our friends at Zagat
Hey all - Lots and lots going on at foursquare HQ these days.  We’ve been teaming up with partners left and right - everything from TV (Bravo!) to newspapers (New York Times!) to movies (Valentine’s Day!) to college campuses (Harvard!) And today we announced a partnership with Zagat aimed at rewarding foursquare users for discovering and experiencing Zagat Rated places in their city....
Feb 9th
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January 2010
2 posts
Show @foursquare Check-ins in iCal
overkill: Login to your foursquare from your web browser Go to foursquare feeds Copy the link (URL) for the the ICS feed Open iCal’s menu -> Calendar -> Subscribe… Paste the ICS URL you copied from foursquare feeds Click Subscribe in iCal Adjust the Auto-refresh value to your liking then click OK
Jan 15th
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