foursquare

Foursquare is a mobile, geolocation enabled social network, that allows users to locate their friends, as well as check-in to nearby locations, in order to earn points and badges. Frequent check-ins at the same venue can award the "Mayor" status, sometimes tied to additional discounts or promotions.

Shortly after launch, Foursquare was embraced both by the general public, and by various businesses, due to strong marketing potential. It now has over 6 million users. Foursquare received many awards in recognition of the system philosophy, blurring the boundaries between the social network and the real world, including the Webby Award, a SXSW Award nomination, as well as 2011's Technology Pioneer title from World Economic Forum.

On October 2010, Douglas Wheelock became the first Foursquare user to check-in from space. By doing so, he unlocked the special NASA Explorer badge.

The official Foursquare blog is located here. You can also find a popular fan blog at aboutfoursquare.com.

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  CY.TALK: VoIP, IP telephony and telecommunications news — Authority: 111
  Looking to ease the anxiety for the mothers of the world whose brats kids are too busy to call is #hashtagmom. You check-in somewhere on Foursquare with the titular #mom hashtag, and it’ll do all the talking (or texting) for you.
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• Save $10 on $50 check at The Cheesecake Factory

  
  Shop-O-Matic: We find. You buy. | Sun-Sentinel Blogs — Authority: 514
  Get $10 back on a $50 purchase at The Cheesecake Factory through Foursquare.com and American Express.To get the free money, securely link an eligible Amex card to your Foursquare account. Then, launch the social networking app on your smartphone, click the "Explore" and orange "Specials" buttons. Select The Cheesecake ...
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• Focus on the User: The real winners and losers of Dont Be Evil

  
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• Too square for Foursquare...

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 102
  While Im a big advocate for social media in archives, I have to admit that until recently, I have not been too impressed with one particular social media tool: Foursquare. Foursquare is a location-based social networking service that encourages users to earn points and badges by "checking in" at locations ...
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• 4th & Mayor Gets Updated to V3.2 – Brings Restaurant Menus & QR Code Check-ins

  
  WP7 Connect — Authority: 474
  4th & Mayor has been updated recently with a small but important update. Version 3.2 brings the ability to see restaurant menus and also the ability to check-in to places using QR codes. The free 4th & Mayor app continues to be a Windows Phone users best choice to anything Foursquare related. Free to Download ...
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• Foursquare teams-up with SinglePlatform to show users prices at local business

  
  IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — Authority: 673
  The basic check-in service is not good enough for Foursquare – the company needs to expand to actually start making some serious money. As part of their newly rolled Explore feature, they’ve teamed-up with SinglePlatform to deliver pricing menus for more than 250,000 local businesses across 13,000 markets in the ...
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• Facebook App Integration: This Week in Social Media

  
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  Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news . To help you stay up-to-date with social media , here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way : Facebook now allows developers a ...
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• Foursquare Partners SinglePlatform to Provide Menus with Pricing

  
  TechieLobang - News, Tips & Tricks — Authority: 123
  If you think Foursquare has not done enough harm in search of good food recommended by your friends, here is another killer feature that will lure you to visit the check-in place. Foursquare, in partnership with SinglePlatform, will be providing menus (with pricing) in real time to almost 250,000 restaurants ...
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• Foursquare Adds Restaurant Menus as It Looks to Eat Yelp For Lunch

  
  f3v3r — Authority: 432
  Pin it You’d think that Yelp, purveyor of social food recommendations, would have menu listings for each spot. Guess what? They don’t. But starting today, Foursquare users will be able to do exactly that. Yelp should be scared. Powered by SinglePlatform, an online service for businesses to upload and ...
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• Foursquare now has menus

  
  Ubergizmo — Authority: 738
  In an attempt to take over some of Yelp’s space in the location-based social network, Foursquare has just beaten it to the punch with the listing of menus and services offered on location listings. With the aid of SinglePlatform – a service that powers the menu of about 250,000 restaurants in major US cities, ...
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• kgbdeals Partners with Foursquare – Find the Best in Local Deals

  
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  kgbdeals continues its innovative partnerships kgbdeals, one of the largest global daily dealers in the industry, just recently announced a partnership with foursquare. This new partnership now links kgbdeals broad range of highly targeted deals to the foursquare community. Now the foursquare community can ...
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• Foursquare gets meatier with addition of 13M menu items

  
  cPanel Hosting — Authority: 140
  Delivering on its promise to make the real world easier to use, location-sharing startup Foursquare has added the menus of nearly 250,000 U.S. restaurants to its service today. The new menu feature, powered by SinglePlatform , provides members with a detailed look at more than 13 million menu times offered at ...
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• Foursquare gets meatier with addition of 13M menu items

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 818
  Delivering on its promise to make the real world easier to use, location-sharing startup Foursquare has added the menus of nearly 250,000 U.S. restaurants to its service today. The new menu feature, powered by SinglePlatform , provides members with a detailed look at more than 13 million menu times offered at ...
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• EaterWire: Save $5 on Restaurant Week; New Chef at the Americano

  
  Eater NY — Authority: 135
  DEALFEED —Foursquare has teamed up with AmEx to offer $5 off of every meal users have at Restaurant Week venues. Click over here to find out how to link your AmEx to Foursquare and redeem the deal. [Foursquare] MIDTOWN — The Flex Donuts pop-up at Grand Central Terminal has been doing so well theyre ...
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• Foursquare Adds Menus as It Looks to Eat Yelp For Lunch [Foursquare]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 864
  Youd think that Yelp, purveyor of social food recommendations, would have menu listings for each spot. Guess what? They dont. But starting today, Foursquare users will be able to do exactly that . Yelp should be scared. More »
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• Audi Offers Discounts For Foursquare Check-ins To Ski Resorts

  
  #RLTM | The Realtime Report — Authority: 505
  Audi is running a new promotion on Foursquare , where fans can check into ski resorts to unlock the new ‘Audi Winter Ride’ badge and gain 20% off “anything in the Audi collection.”  The campaign is designed to promote Audi’s presence on Foursquare and engage potential Audi consumers in the right market. ...
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• Im NOT the Mayor of anywhere!!! #SocialMedia

  
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• Why Sharing Passwords With Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend Is A Spectacularly Bad Idea

  
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  The New York Times reports today on the naughtiest thing that teenagers in love are doing behind closed doors: swapping passwords for their Facebook and email accounts. It has become fashionable for young people to express their affection for each other by sharing their passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other ...
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