Foursquare

Facebook Strategy 101: Poach Talent, Pluck Startups - Posted May 14, 2012
Facebook's hunger for juicy startup morsels is somewhat insatiable, gauging its recent ... [AllFacebook]

Why Did Facebook Buy Glancee? - Posted May 8, 2012
The social rumor mill is abuzz with predictions on what Facebook plans to do with the newest member of its family, ... [AllFacebook]

Facebook IPO Video | FBI Social Surveillance | Supermoon Goes Viral - Posted May 7, 2012
 Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Here's All the Recent News From Foursquare - Posted May 2, 2012
So many things are happening at Foursquare. On Foursquare Day, April 16, the company announced that it had reached 20 million... [AgencySpy]

Here's All the Recent News From Foursquare - Posted May 2, 2012
So many things are happening at Foursquare. On Foursquare Day, April 16, the company announced that it had reached 20 million... [PRNewser]

Make Reservations Before You Check In: Foursquare Partners with OpenTable - Posted May 2, 2012
Foursquare has been rolling out a bunch of new features lately. This latest addition gives the check-in service a purpose beyond announcing one's arrival after the fact. The New York-based company announced its partnership with the online reservation site OpenTable in a blog post earlier today: ... [SocialTimes.com]

Make Reservations Before You Check In: Foursquare Partners with OpenTable - Posted May 2, 2012
Foursquare has been rolling out a bunch of new features lately. This latest addition gives the check-in service a purpose beyond announcing one's arrival after the fact. The New York-based company announced its partnership with the online reservation site OpenTable in a blog post earlier today: ... [AllFacebook]

Facebook Introduces Open Graph Action Links - Posted May 2, 2012
Move over, action verbs, and make way fo... [AllFacebook]

Foursquare Offers Fast-Track Verification to Businesses - Posted May 2, 2012
There's a new purportedly low-fat frozen yogurt place in our neighborhood, and it's got the buzz that you can only get in a smaller town. Everyone from the most skeptical connoisseurs to the high school girls are chasing this new frozen yogurt, and what better way to show off that... [SocialTimes.com]

Path Gets More Funding | Foursquare's Holiday | Klout Dating - Posted April 17, 2012
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Celebrates 20 Million Users, 2 Billion Check-ins with 2012 4sqDay Badge - Posted April 16, 2012
Foursquare's location-sharing service has reached 20 million users who have posted 2 billion check-ins, according to a report by VentureBeat. The New York-based company is currently celebrating its third annual Foursquare Day in honor of today's date (which corresponds to the number four... [AllFacebook]

Foursquare Celebrates 20 Million Users, 2 Billion Check-ins with 2012 4sqDay Badge - Posted April 16, 2012
Foursquare's location-sharing service has reached 20 million users who have posted 2 billion check-ins, according to a report by VentureBeat. The New York-based company is currently celebrating its third annual Foursquare Day in honor of today's date (which corresponds to the number four... [SocialTimes.com]

Who Will Facebook Buy Next? Place Your Bets! - Posted April 11, 2012
"We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all," Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in announcing the social network's $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing... [AllFacebook]

Facebook Search | From Reddit to Wedding | TweetDeck Back to Normal - Posted April 2, 2012
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Welcome to the Morning Social Media Newsfeed! Here, we... [SocialTimes.com]

The New Restaurant Critic Is You [Infographic] - Posted March 29, 2012
There was a time when a foodie had only the local newspaper restaurant reviews as an aide to navigating himself towards the nearest quality eaterie. Along came the web, and search, and finally social, and now the world of dining on recommendation has been completely transformed. It's not difficult... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Co-Founder Stepping Down, Business Continues as Usual - Posted March 7, 2012
Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Foursquare, announced in a blog post this weekend that he will be leaving the company, ... [PRNewser]

TIME and Foursquare Partner for 2012 Political Conventions - Posted March 5, 2012
If you are at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL on August 27-30 or the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC from September 3-5, don't forget to check in on Foursquare... [SocialTimes.com]

Location-Based Marketing Extends Beyond Check-ins - Posted February 29, 2012
"Location, location, location" have long been known as the three things that ... [PRNewser]

Google+ Threatens Foursquare with New Check-In Leaderboard - Posted February 22, 2012
One of the first things that people usually ask Foursquare users is 'why do you care?' In fact, this is what people usually ask people that play FarmVille or CityVille, or even Tweet. We live in a digital world where people usually have to eat their own snap judgments... [SocialTimes.com]

Get Social and Keep Your New Year's Resolutions - Posted December 29, 2011
New Year's is a time for revelry, reflection, and making resolutions, both personal and work-related. PsychCentral blog says about forty to forty-five percent of American adults make at least one New Year's resolut... [PRNewser]

Tech Round Up: No One Checks In; Zuckerberg Exposed - Posted December 7, 2011
-I must live in a supe-techie area or know a lot of hypercheckers, because according to Forrester Research, only 2 percent of adults use apps like Foursquare... [PRNewser]

Gowalla Going to Facebook - Posted December 5, 2011
Gowalla, the other Foursquare, allowing for mobile check-ins, etc., has announced that it's heading to Facebook. The service... [PRNewser]

Tech Round Up: Brands Missing Links on Google+, Twitter Buys Whisper - Posted December 1, 2011
-In news that suprises probably no one on the planet, brands are not as engaged on Google+ as they are on Facebook. SEO company BrightEdge found that within the first 10 days of availability, 61 percent of the top 100 brands around the globe had a presen... [PRNewser]

New Little Printer Prints Receipt-sized Daily Newspaper - Posted December 1, 2011
A bold new product is arriving from BERG that plans to redesign personalized publishing, by printing news from Facebook, Foursquare and The Guardian. The Little Printer is an ideal social media interface edited by you. According to CEO Matt Webb, the new product lives up to its name. It is a... [SocialTimes.com]

Mayor of Tampa Using Foursquare... to Become Mayor Again - Posted December 1, 2011
Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa might earn the title of "mayor" through Foursquare. Foursquare has always had a political bent -- it offers users the chance to achieve the title of "mayor" by visiting a place repe... [SocialTimes.com]

"Save to foursquare" Button Sends Place & Location Info From the Web to Your Phone - Posted December 1, 2011
Part of the trick to managing an enormous amount of information is getting the data moved from screen to screen (from notebook to phone or tablet and vice versa). If you see a "Save to foursquare" button, you can now save information about the place to your Foursquare account. If the... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Provided NFC Powered Tap to Check-in Feature at Nokia World - Posted November 28, 2011
Nokia's Near field Connectivity Blog provided interesting, if somewhat dated, information in a recent post. It lets us know that Nokia and Foursquare enabled NFC (Near Field Communications) check-in at Nokia World which took place in London a month ago (October 26-27). ... [SocialTimes.com]

SoundTracking Receives $4.75M in Financing - Posted November 16, 2011
SoundTracking is becoming more and more popular and, of course, that means that it's becoming more and more attractive to investors -- to the point that it has just received some $4.75 million in venture capital. The investment came to SoundTracking by way of Accel Partners, SoftBan... [SocialTimes.com]

Quora for iPhone App Can Show Q&A About Things Near You - Posted November 11, 2011
Quora is a popular community-organized Q&A website. But, did you know there Quora also has an iPhone app with an interesting feature tweak? The free Quora iPhone app lets you ask questions, contribute answers and browse topics as you can on Quora's desktop website. And, the tweak? Quora for iPhone has... [SocialTimes.com]

iPhone Vs. Android: The Social Apps Battle [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted October 31, 2011
Is there a difference between how iPhone users and Android users access their social media? Apparently so. Owners of each device favor Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare differently, accessing some social apps more than others. This infographic from onavo ... [10,000 Words]

Foursquare Relaunches 'Add to Foursquare' as 'Save to Foursquare' - Posted October 31, 2011
Foursquare attempted to launch an "Add to Foursquare" button for web publishers that enabled users to save venues on their foursquare to-do list. But, the feature did not last because the publishers had a difficult time embedding the button. So, foursquare shelved the service after a few months. The location-based platform... [SocialTimes.com]

Spin the Agencies of Record: foursquare, Kaplow Part Ways - Posted October 21, 2011
Yesterday, PRWeek wrote about ... [PRNewser]

Featured Travel Products from Last Month's Foursquare Hackathon - Posted October 20, 2011
Foursquare sponsored a worldwide hackathon last month with cash prizes to encourage developers to build using its API (application programming interface). More than 500 developers participated in the day-long hackathon. Foursquare highlights two of the tools that resulted from the hackathon. One was the hackatho... [SocialTimes.com]

LocalResponse Raises $5M - Posted October 18, 2011
LocalResponse, a new startup in the social media mobile ad space, is using semantic analysis to capitalize on ... [AllTwitter]

Foursquare and ESPN Playing on the Same Team - Posted October 6, 2011
Back in the middle of August ESPN announced an agreement to supply sports venue data on foursquare's newly launched events platform. The agreements enhanced the check-in experience at sporting events with game time, teams, venue, location information and more. With the new feature, fans not only have been able to share... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Makes it to a Billion Check-ins - Posted September 22, 2011
The social networking service known as foursquare, which launched in 2009, announced this week that it hit a whole new place value with its check-ins - billions. foursquare said in its blog post that it had hit a billion check-ins... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Adds Privacy Option with Home Address - Posted September 21, 2011
Even though it is not official yet, with a formal announcement later this week, Foursquare will be introducing a new privacy option to help prevent users from unknowingly share home addresses with complete strangers. About Foursquare was first to report the new update for the ... [SocialTimes.com]

Research: Americans Spending A Lot of Time on Social Networks, But Still Not Checking In - Posted September 12, 2011
A Nielsen report shows that people are spending 23 percent of their time online cruising social networks. Facebook is the most popular networking site by far (140 million+ unique visitors in May... [PRNewser]

Foursquaropoloy Turns Your City Into A Giant Monopoly Board - Posted September 8, 2011
Monopoly fans rejoice! A new gaming app turns your city into a giant Monopoly board. Foursquaropoloy uses Foursquare to make you the game piece and your city the board! How does Foursquaropoly work? Everyone starts with $100,000 in their bank account that th... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Asks Users for 'I Just Checked In' Videos, Photos - Posted September 8, 2011
foursquare thinks its users ought to be in pictures -- moving pictures, that is. The location-based mobile app has put out the call for users to upload videos of their favorite check-ins, with the best to appear in a foursquare "... [SocialTimes.com]

The White House Joins Foursquare - Posted August 16, 2011
The White House is now on Foursquare, keeping followers up-to-date on where President Obama has gone and what he did while he was there. Followers ca... [PRNewser]

President Obama (actually The Whitehouse) is on Foursquare - Posted August 15, 2011
[caption id="attachment_74244" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="Image courtesy of The Whitehouse"][/caption] Many people aspire to be the Mayor of places they check-in to on Foursquare. There's one new user, however, for who that would be a demotion. President Obama... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare for Android Gets a New Look & Improved Navigation - Posted August 11, 2011
Attention Android users, Foursquare updated its Android app this week. Android gets a new fresh new look for the summer! Here's what's new: - Improved app navigation - Check-in button always a... [SocialTimes.com]

Check In with foursquare and Check Out a Redbox Discount - Posted August 11, 2011
Check in at a kiosk, and walk away with a discount: Redbox, which rents DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and video games from kiosks in more than 27,800 locations across the country, is running a discount promotion with location-based mobile app ... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare, BBM Now Integrated - Posted August 11, 2011
When foursquare released foursquare 3.0 for BlackBerry in July, the location-based mobile app closed out the ... [SocialTimes.com]

Check-in to Foursquare or Facebook at DFW & Get Special Offers at Airport Concessions - Posted August 9, 2011
I remember paying $11 for eggs, toast and a small orange juice at an airport years ago. I was as surprised that no meat (bacon or sausage) was included in the package as I was by the price. Well, actually, anyone who has bought food in an airport knows that the... [SocialTimes.com]

Check In to Help foursquare Help Education - Posted August 2, 2011
DonorsChoose.org recently hosted a Hacking Education Showcase to help solicit donations for classroom projects via foursquare check-ins. The resulting hacks all used the location-based mobile app's ... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Tweaking Brand Pages with an Eye Toward Monetization - Posted August 1, 2011
foursquare is looking to ramp up the use of its brand pages, ramping up some cash flow for itself in the process. AdAge r... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: Business Wire, Foursquare Fees, MyEdCals for 2012, and More - Posted August 1, 2011
Business Wire is now offering a Mobile Alerts option to clients that will make text message alerts avai... [PRNewser]

BIG MONEY: Social Media and Consumer Web Dominate SecondMarket Action - Posted July 27, 2011
Where is all the money going? Well, it's easy to find out on SecondMarket these days. The New York-based marketplace for private company stock has just released its second-quarter/first-half results. To check out the infographics from the SecondMarket report, take a look at the slideshow immediately below. Then, dig deeper into... [SocialTimes.com]

New Application Lets Users Get Karma Points for Recommending Services - Posted July 21, 2011
"Our free app was created to give users an easy way to express their opinion about nearly anything they encounter in daily life," says Alexander Galkin, founder of Bubbalon, "giving our users fun rewards and allowing them to follow other users, among many other new enhancements. Our integration with several location... [SocialTimes.com]

It's BlackBerry's Turn for New foursquare App - Posted July 19, 2011
foursquare continues to roll out updates on all platforms, following up its addition of notifications to its Android app earlier this month and its ... [SocialTimes.com]

Show Us Your Google News Badges - Posted July 18, 2011
Web surfers can earn badges for checking in at various locations, as well as for their entertainment selections. Add reading the news to that list, thanks to Google News. The search-engine giant debuted badges for the U.S. edition of Googl... [SocialTimes.com]

Pinch of foursquare Added to Klout Recipe - Posted July 13, 2011
Add foursquare to the list of social networking sites that factor into the Klout scoring system, as the location-based mobile app joined Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, the latter ... [SocialTimes.com]

Pepsi Using Foursquare on Worldwide Social Media Campaign - Posted July 13, 2011
Pepsi is using a Foursquare badge on a worldwide campaign as a very important part of the company's "Summer Time is Pepsi Time" social media and TV campaign. According to Marketing Daily, the Foursqu... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Means Businesses ... More than 500,000 of Them - Posted July 7, 2011
Milestones keep checking in to foursquare, as the location-based mobile app followed up last month's news that it had... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Tweaks Its Platform with "Notification Tray" - Posted July 7, 2011
Foursquare maintains its presence in the social network by tweaking its platform with a new addition. A very cool looking and useful notification system that lifts users "beyond the check-in." Ironically, the new addition is only available for Android and web users first. The New York-based c... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Booming in Brazil - Posted July 6, 2011
foursquare created a Brazil-centric website in response to its accelerating user base in the country, co-founder and CEO ... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Launches Notifications On Android - Posted July 5, 2011
Foursquare has been eagerly working to have users see it for more than just a check-in app, and today they made another step in that direction by introducing Notifications. The notifications provide updates about ... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare, Microsoft Combine Efforts on Windows Phone 7 App - Posted July 5, 2011
foursquare teamed up with Microsoft to develop a thoroughly revamped version of foursquare for Windows Phone 7, developed entirely on the location-based mobile app's open API. ... [SocialTimes.com]

WorldOfFourCraft: When Foursquare Meets Google Maps & the Game of Risk - Posted June 30, 2011
What happens when you mashup Foursquare on a smartphone, Google Maps and the basics of the old territory control board game Risk? Why you get WorldOfFourCraft, of course. Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into a Giant Game of Risk (Mashable) Players... [SocialTimes.com]

$50M in Capital Checks Into foursquare - Posted June 27, 2011
The number 10 million was notable for foursquare earlier this month, as the location-based mobile app reached the 10 mi... [SocialTimes.com]

Check-In Button More Prominent in foursquare v3.2 for iPhone - Posted June 22, 2011
Checking in on foursquare just got a little easier for iPhone users with the release of version 3.2 of the location-based mobile app. A new check-in button, placed in the center of the bottom toolbar, was the highlight of the new features in version 3.2, and foursquare also introduced an ... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Tops 10M User Mark - Posted June 21, 2011
foursquare commemorated its march past the 10 million-user mark with an infographic revealing some of the numberss and facts turned up by the location-based mobile app since it... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Doesn't Mind If You Just Look Around - Posted June 20, 2011
So far in 2011, foursquare is adding users at the pace of roughly 1 million every six weeks, but co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley is working toward picking up that pace. Speaking at the 140 Characters Conference at the ... [SocialTimes.com]

LinkedIn, Netflix, Foursquare and Square Apps Are An Identity Thief's Dream Come True - Posted June 17, 2011
Mobile apps for LinkedIn, Netflix, Foursquare and Square have been found to significantly lack in security precautions according to an evaluation conducted by ViaForensics. The evaluation revealed that apps for the... [SocialTimes.com]

New Media Index: Twitter Users Focus on Small Businesses Using foursquare - Posted June 10, 2011
The use of location-based mobile app foursquare by small businesses was the topic of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of May 30-June 3, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism's ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Boosts Voting for Spike TV's Guys Choice - Posted June 10, 2011
Voting for the winners of Guys Choice, which debuts Friday at 9 p.m. on Spike TV, was up 115 percent compared with last year, and the cable network credit... [SocialTimes.com]

Sonar iPhone App Unveils Mysteries of foursquare Connections - Posted June 9, 2011
New iPhone app Sonar makes use of the foursquare application-program interface to tie in check-ins with users' Facebook and Twitter connections, so users can determine if they are linked to other users at the same location or event. foursquare platform evangelist Akshay Patil... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Lets the Fingers Do the Checking-In in Canada - Posted June 7, 2011
Checking in to foursquare in Canada will result in more accurate and authentic data following the announcement of a partnership between the location-based mobile app and Yellow Page... [SocialTimes.com]

India's SMS Gupshup Wants to be World's Biggest Mobile Social Network - Posted June 2, 2011
An Indian group-texting service called SMS GupShup wants to become the world's biggest mobile social network. And, they want to take on Facebook and Foursquare. SMS GupShup has a good reason to want to be the biggest. The company already has 45 million users in India and is on a $10 million... [SocialTimes.com]

INQ's Facebook Phone Expanding To Include Foursquare - Posted May 23, 2011
We first heard about the INQ Cloud Touch smartphone, which is tightly integrated with Facebook, back last February. Our Readers in the United Kingdom are able to buy it now from The Carphone Warehouse. Today ... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare and Google Test NFC Check-Ins At Google I/O - Posted May 11, 2011
Foursquare and Google have partnered up to test location-based, mobile check-ins. The test commenced at the Moscone Center, San Francisco convention center of Google I/O, the search giant's big annual developer conference taking place this week in San Francisco (May 10 - 11). Owners of smartphones equipped with near-field communication (NFC) technology,... [SocialTimes.com]

DontEat.at Warns foursquare Users of NYC Restaurants' Health Code Violations - Posted April 29, 2011
Saved from food poisoning by foursquare? It's possible thanks to DontEat.at, a text-messaging service that uses the location-based mobile app's application-programming interface and health code records from the City of New York. Created by ... [SocialTimes.com]

Learn from This: Virgin America's Terminal 2 Takeover - Posted April 29, 2011
Virgin America launched four years ago at the cusp of viable social media marketing. The airline appreciates that social media is not an overlay; it's at the core of the company's culture. I've p... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Co-Founder Talks About Needed Improvements - Posted April 22, 2011
Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at Girls in Tech event in San Francisco. There he talked about Foursquare's improvements in the coming months. He even promised to make the app go faster. Crowley c... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare is Now Splashing Color With New Photos Feature - Posted April 20, 2011
Foursquare users can now record their memories of an event and sample their friends' memories, too. The new social media photo feature for Foursquare helps save and share photos of events from various users who checked in, and then the photos can be viewed on the check-in detail page. Foursquare blog by... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Adds Photos: 'Color'ful Feature or Privacy Concern? - Posted April 20, 2011
When popular check-in service Foursquare announced this week it would add an easy photo-sharing function, users could be forgiven for seeing shades of 'Color' flash before their eyes, and wondering if, perhaps, their favorite site had just gone there too. Did it? ... [SocialTimes.com]

Two-Thirds of the U.S. Consumers Download Coupons - Posted April 12, 2011
More than two-thirds of U.S. consumers say they have downloaded a printable coupon from a Web site, according to a new report from marketing research firm Morpace. While printable online coupons have been part of retailers' incentive strategies for a few years,... [SocialTimes.com]

Are You Ready for Foursquare Day? - Posted April 12, 2011
Get ready to party and celebrate with other social media users because Foursquare Day (4 squared = 16, hence 4/16) is coming this weekend on Saturday, April 16, 2011. If you are not familiar with the social networking holiday, it's centered on the use of a location-based smartphone app. Last year... [SocialTimes.com]

GetGlue Integrates Foursquare: Check-In To What You're Watching Where You're Watching - Posted March 30, 2011
This week social entertainment check-in app GetGlue has got some big announcements. They've revamped their iPhone app, as well as the GetGlue website, have opened up their platform to Sports check-ins and have officially integrated Foursquare. Now you can do more than j... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare 3.0 Is Here - Posted March 9, 2011
Mashable gives us a thorough overview of the latest iteration of Foursquare, which includes a new Explore tab for recommendations, a partnership with Amex, and new deals features. The upgrades have happened on iPhone and Android devices with Blackberry ... [PRNewser]

What's The Meaning of Good? DailyFeats Parses It Out - Posted March 9, 2011
Not to go all metaphysical on you, but what is the ontology of good? At South by Southwest this week, DailyFeats will present its new social platform that plays off the idea: It lets people che... [AllTwitter]

foursquare Has a Platinum Hit from Bravo On Its Hands - Posted March 9, 2011
Bravo will preview upcoming music-competition series Platinum Hit during a March 16 panel at South by Southwest... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

foursquare 3.0 Set to Debut for Android, iPhone - Posted March 8, 2011
The short history of foursquare contains several ties to South by Southwest, so it's only fitting that the location-based mobile app will ring in this year's SXSW by releasing version 3.0 for Android and iPhone devices Tuesday night. One of the most prominent new features in the updated app is an Explore... [AppNewser]

foursquare 3.0 Set to Debut for Android, iPhone - Posted March 8, 2011
The short history of foursquare contains several ties to South by Southwest, so it's only fitting that the location-based mobile app will ring in this year's SXSW by releasing version 3.0 for Android and iPhone devices Tuesday night. One of the most prominent new features in the updated app is an Explore... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Check In with Big Boi at SXSW Thanks to foursquare, Pepsi MAX - Posted March 8, 2011
Hip-hop star Big Boi will hold a concert for 2,000 fans Monday, along with The Sounds... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

7 Digital Trends Worth Your Attention - Posted March 3, 2011
The 2011 social media trends watch continued as Steve Rubel, SVP and director of insights at ... [PRNewser]

Nokia S40 Users Can Now Become foursquare Mayors - Posted February 18, 2011
Nokia S40 users can now check in with foursquare, as the location-based mobile app is now available in a version that is compatible with the mobile operating system. From the foursquare Blog: ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

foursquare's Dennis Crowley Checks In at Social Media Week New York - Posted February 11, 2011
foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley was the... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Super Sunday Check-Ins for foursquare, NFL - Posted February 3, 2011
foursquare and the National Football League will celebrate Super Bowl Sunday with three spec... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Week Executive Director Toby Daniels: 'Our Most Spectacular Yet' - Posted February 3, 2011
Social Media Week kicks off Monday in nine cities -- New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, S o Paulo, London, Hong Ko... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Check In at mediabistro.com Webcast Understanding foursquare and Other Geolocation Applications - Posted February 2, 2011
Brush up on your knowledge of location-based applications including foursquare and Gowalla with ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Class of 2011 Revealed for TheGrio's 100: History Makers in the Making - Posted February 1, 2011
TheGrio kicked off Black History Month by revealing the 2011 class of TheGrio's 100: History Makers in the Making... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Check Into the 6 Nations Rugby Scrum with BBC America, foursquare - Posted February 1, 2011
With the 6 Nations Rugby tournament set to begin with a match between 2010 champion France and Scotland Saturday at 11:30 a.m. ET, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Invades Campus ... Every Campus - Posted January 31, 2011
foursquare is enrolling in college -- every college, worldwide. The location-based mobile app announced on its ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Is Foursquare Moving Beyond the 'Early Adopter' Phase? - Posted January 24, 2011
In a 2010 recap infographic posted today, Foursquare announced that more than six million people have signed up for accounts with the location-based site. Some other interesting details: -There were more than 381... [PRNewser]

Fill Up on Some 'Choice Eats' with The Village Voice, foursquare - Posted January 18, 2011
The Village Voice and foursquare are dishing out some "Choice Eats," teaming up to offer a special Choic... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Posts New House Rules - Posted January 11, 2011
With foursquare continuing to grow by leaps and bounds, the location-based mobile app posted a new list of ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Examiner.com Checks In with foursquare - Posted January 10, 2011
Local news network Examiner.com is taking hyperlocal to a new level with its announcement that tips from its contributors will now be featured on ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Badges Are Here! foursquare, MTV Awarding Jersey Shore GTL Badges - Posted January 6, 2011
Jersey Shore returns to MTV with its third-season premiere Thursday night, and ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Check In on foursquare During Watch What Happens Live: Andy's New Year's Eve Party and Appear on Bravo - Posted December 29, 2010
foursquare users and Bravo fans looking to make their big break into television may have a... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Startups Prove: Life's a Game - Posted December 29, 2010
Games aren't just for kids anymore. Thanks to a handful of startups, including the much hyped Foursquare, people are using game mechanics to actually accomplish re... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

foursquare for Android Adds Photos, Comments - Posted December 23, 2010
The Android update promised earlier this week h... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Ex Googler Tells Gawker, Facebook Has Better Social Skills - Posted December 22, 2010
Former ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Adds Features - Posted December 20, 2010
Foursquare has added photos and comments to its iPhone app. So now users can share an image and their thoughts with their check-ins, with the info available almost exclusively to a u... [PRNewser]

Photos, Comments Check In at foursquare - Posted December 20, 2010
Photos and comments can now be added to check-ins on location based mobile app foursquare via the iPhone and foursquare.com, with an update for the Android operating system to be released later this week, the company announced on its blog. From the post: Comments m... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Brightkite Concedes Check-Ins to Foursquare - Posted December 13, 2010
Brightkite, one of the first players in the mobile check-in craze, has decided to abandon that business to the likes of Facebook and Foursquare. Instead, the company said Monday... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

foursquare Salutes Users for Earning Those Hangovers - Posted December 3, 2010
foursquare continues to add more and more badges for users of the location-based mobile app to earn, and it offered details on some of its new badges in a ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Kansas City Star: Use foursquare to Check In at One of Our Vending Machines - Posted December 2, 2010
Anyone who is part of a social network probably has at least one friend who is on foursquare and completely overdoes it. It's one thing to check in at the trendy ne... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Gowalla Integrates with Foursquare - Posted December 2, 2010
Gowalla has released the latest version of its iPhone app, which includes new features and an integration with its location-based app rival Foursquare. With Foursquare, Gowalla check... [PRNewser]

foursquare, (RED) Recognize World AIDS Day with Special Badge - Posted December 1, 2010
foursquare teamed up with (RED) to recognize ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Get a foursquare Badge for Having Your Junk Touched - Posted November 23, 2010
foursquare is having some fun with the controversy over the new security policies implemented by the Transportation Security Administration, as ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Checks Into San Francisco - Posted November 22, 2010
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A Trophy Case to Show Off foursquare Badges - Posted November 16, 2010
Users of location-based mobile app foursquare can now show off the badges they have earned via the new ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Cleaning Out New York Companies - Posted November 16, 2010
Facebook's plan to scour New York startups for fresh talent seems to be paying off. Turns out the social network's ... [FishbowlNY]

Foursquare, Focusing on Growth, Exceeds Four Million Users - Posted November 15, 2010
Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley told Bloomberg News that its use... [PRNewser]

foursquare Tweaks Homepage - Posted November 9, 2010
foursquare announced some tweaks to its Web site, mainly when it comes to friends -- more focus on what friends are doing and how to find and add them. From the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

What a Difference a Year Makes: Foursquare Hires PR Firm; Grows Up? - Posted November 5, 2010
Last October, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley ... [PRNewser]

Location-Based Service Users 'Fit Profile of Early Adopter' - Posted November 4, 2010
Pew Research Center found that use of location-based services like Foursquare remains low, with users fitting "the profile of any early adopt... [PRNewser]

PRNewser Poll: Will You Use Foursquare or Facebook? - Posted November 4, 2010
Last week, in anticipation of Halloween, we asked whether Halloween was an important holiday for the PR industry. More than two-thirds of respondents said "Somewhat," despite the fact that the holiday is a $6 billion business. Those respondents agreed with the statement ... [PRNewser]

Foursquare Selects Kaplow as AOR - Posted November 2, 2010
Foursquare has selected Kaplow PR as AOR, providing media relations and messaging services and executing... [PRNewser]

NASA Will Be The Mayor Of Outer Space - Posted October 28, 2010
NASA has launched (sorry!) a social media campaign that includes a partnership with Foursquare, tweets from the Space Shuttle Discovery, and a tweetup for the shuttle launch next week at the Johnson Space Center. Last week, Commander Douglas Wheelock became th... [PRNewser]

Election Day Check-In Time: foursquare Teams Up with The I Voted Project on I Voted Badge - Posted October 27, 2010
foursquare users: Don't forget to check in on Election Day Nov. 2, as The I Voted Project teamed up with the location-based mobile app to create the official I Voted badge, awarded to users who check in to their polling place locations and "shout" #ivoted ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

4M foursquare Users, But Only One Has the NASA Explorer Badge - Posted October 22, 2010
Location-based mobile app foursquare may have just surpassed the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

4M Users Check In to foursquare - Posted October 22, 2010
Checking in is the in thing, as foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley told GigaOM the location-based mobile a... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

NHL Reaches Deals with foursquare, Stan Lee - Posted October 7, 2010
What do location-based mobile app foursquare and comic-book legend Stan Lee have in common? Why, the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The NHL and Foursquare Together at Last - Posted October 7, 2010
Getting checked? So 2009. Checking in? So cool. Today, the NHL becomes the first professional sports league "with a full-time, dedicated presence on Foursquare." Fa... [SportsNewser]

foursquare Issues: You Can't Check In Any Time You Like - Posted October 6, 2010
Location-based mobile app foursquare seems to have reached stable condition after two long outages, with the first starting at around 11 a.m. ET Monday and lasting for some 11 hours, and the second knocking it ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Digital Influencers Rule at Advertising Week Panel - Posted October 1, 2010
[caption id="attachment_5499" align="alignleft" width="286" caption="Left to right: Joe Penna, "MysteryGuitarMan" on YouTube; iJustine, Web celeb; Jason Harris, Mekanism ; Ivy Ross, GAP; Jill Fletcher, Virgin America"][/caption] Companies' use of digital influencers to generate buzz has become increasingly popular and has cr... [PRNewser]

Location-Based Gaming Apps Reaching Out to College Students - Posted September 27, 2010
Location-based social apps are making a push to attract college students, with SCVNGR, a Google Ventures-backed app, making the biggest push of all. According to Mashable, Fours... [PRNewser]

CNN, Eatocracy, foursquare Sink Teeth Into Weeklong Series Eatocracy: Mind, Body and Wallet - Posted September 24, 2010
Is CNN.com's Eatocracy blog, which ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Ticker: Google Instant; Measurement; Foursquare's 'Like' Button; Univision - Posted September 21, 2010
Softpedia: Google Instant Was a Huge PR Win the cube: The social media strategy series: Metrics and Measurement Business Insider: ... [PRNewser]

foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley Cracks the CHOW 13 - Posted September 16, 2010
CHOW hopes to whet readers' appetites with the release of its second annual CHOW 13, a list of 1... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Ninety-Nine Percent of People Don't Want You to Know Where They Are - Posted September 3, 2010
A study by Forrester Research found that only one percent of Americans regularly use Foursquare or o... [PRNewser]

Bridging the gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW - Posted August 17, 2010
Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). I know that this is a strong statement, but I am confident that it will happen. Mainstream is defined in Wikipedia as “the common current of... [semanticweb.com]

Study: Half of us Care About Social Network and Geolocation Privacy - But What are we Doing About it? - Posted July 16, 2010
Two separate studies were conducted this week that suggest that social network and geolocation users are torn right down the middle when it comes to issues of privacy. Both studies showed that for about half of the respondents, privacy is their number one concern. However, this has yet to translate... [SocialTimes.com]

Foursquare Founder on PR: "It Pretty Much Takes Care of Itself" - Posted October 19, 2009
Mobile social network and gaming application Foursquare has received quite a bit of hype since launching at last year's SXSW Conference. Despite only 60k users, no revenue and no business model, the company has emerged as one of the next hot things that may not yet have the user base... [PRNewser]

Foursquare Checks In at NYMag - Posted April 7, 2009
Are you on Foursquare yet? The new social networking, with video game appeal, find your friends, service that officially launched last week at the PSFK confere... [FishbowlNY]