Amazing stuff from Mari, our superstar designer. (Marz, you should sell prints!)
(via marsbot)
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!
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.
All this and we haven’t ever formally released our API yet. :)
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)
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
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!)
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, search. Jack’s advice and feedback have already proven to be invaluable as we hustle to improve and grow foursquare.
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.
A day after we launched at SXSW, Kevin tracked us down and bullied us into making a badge for Digg’s party. Since then he’s been one of our biggest supporters and a great source of advice and product ideas.
Joshua Schachter, founder of Delicious.
Since we’ve launched, people have been describing parts of foursquare as “Delicious for places”. We love this comparison and we’ve been thrilled to have Joshua’s feedback and insight into our product goals.
Alex Rainert, co-founder of Dodgeball.
Very few people understand the mobile/social space as well as Alex. Since our very first iPhone build, he’s been throwing feedback and product suggestions at us. Karen Bonna-Rainert, Alex’s wife and a good friend from Dennis’ grad school days at ITP @ NYU is also actively involved.
SV Angels LLC
The angel group founded and backed by Ron Conway. Ron’s been a major player in seed-stage tech investments since the early days of Google and we’re thrilled to have SVA’s support.
Chad Stoller, NYC branding/advertising/interactive superstar.
You can thank Chad for the “mayor” idea - which he demanded we build so he could flaunt his loyalty to Think Coffee. We sold out and wrote the code in exchange for two beers. :)
Sergio Salvatore, long-time music / technology entrepreneur.
A long-time friend of Naveen’s, Sergio’s been advising our team on scaling and technical architecture issues since the early days of foursquare.
I can’t tell you how excited we are to have such a group of superstars behind the things we’re building. Thanks again to everyone involved and to all those who have helped out along the way!
-team foursquare
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Official Unofficial Foursquare London Launch Party!
Foursquare has launched in London!
Meet outside Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen at 7 PM on 9th October 2009 for drinks, merriment and Foursquare!
Don’t forget to sign up to Foursquare + install the app on your iPhone or Android device. Alternatively you can play through your mobile web browser at m.foursquare.com.
tomorrow night! get out there and meet up! (at Hoxton Square Bar)
A 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 twitter search speculation, and then Josh fwds this to be about 40 mins later.
Thanks to Josh (@hellonewman and Tanya R) for the clips!
What Sam, Jon and crew at doing over @socialgreat is amazing
caro:
Drop.io’s Sam Lessin analyzes 200,000 checkins on Foursquare through SocialGreat. Read the whole post, it’s awesome. A few (non-surprising) favorites:
6. In NYC the people at R/GA seem to check in an absurd amount… same with the people at blip.
7. Tom and Jerry’s continues to dominate New York normal evenings
8. But Brooklyn Bowl has been doing really well on weekendscheck out the data on this pdf as well
(via jonsteinberg)
This is really cool, especially as someone who is splitting time between the two cities. Thursday nights here (San Francisco) definitely aren’t what they are in New York, even though I did randomly run into a bunch of Foursquare users at Zeitgeist last night.
