All the stories tagged with: foursquare
Meshu creates uniquely designed jewelry based on your foursquare check-ins
05/31/2012, Foursquare, for those unfamiliar, allows users to check into locations. Sometimes this provides perks such as discounts and it also lets users leave comments about the establishment for other foursquare users. However one of the last things we’d expect from [...]
Bing New Architecture: Introducing Snapshot and Social Sidebar
05/10/2012, This morning, we were at a press conference at Microsoft’s offices in San Francisco to see a demo of the revamped Bing search engine. Touted as a “new approach to search” by Microsoft, the new architecture features a three columns [...]
Foursquare Joins the Coupon Craze
05/09/2012, Foursquare, the popular geo-tagging social network passed the 20 million user mark about 2 weeks ago, on the application’s third annual 4sqDay. Now however, Foursquare is not happy with being just a popular but unprofitable social network and it has [...]
Foursquare for Blackberry updated with NFC support
05/01/2012, Blackberry users, if you’re fond of checking into the various locations that you go via foursquare, you will be pleased to learn that the app has recently received an update that will allow users to utilize the NFC feature found [...]
Foursquare Passes 20 Million User Mark and Records Over 2 Billion Check-Ins
04/23/2012, The famous geo-tagging app Foursquare has passed 20 million users worldwide and subsequently its users have churned out a staggering 2 billion check-ins. The announcement was made to commemorate the third annual 4sqDay which resulted in US-wide meet-ups. In June [...]
Check in while having safe sex
02/29/2012, Checking in on your mobile device is not new at all, as this “act” has become old hat for many. The novelty of being a “mayor” at a particular social setting has also lost its lustre, but how about pitting [...]
Google Latitude Leaderboards launched
02/20/2012, Are you one who cannot wait to be mayor in your favorite hangout thanks to Foursquare and your corresponding device that has the app? I myself do not really see the significance of being a mayor at a public place, [...]
Foursquare now has menus
01/18/2012, 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 – [...]
4sqwifi helps search for passwords for nearby WiFi hotspots
11/14/2011, If you’re traveling in a foreign country and you’re looking to hook up your iPhone or iPad to a nearby WiFI hotspot, it seems that an app for the iPhone called 4sqwifi will attempt to fetch you the passwords of [...]
[Study] Social media believed to be used by most of today’s burglars
09/29/2011, While the internet is great for helping you keep in touch with the people you care about, it’s also a good way for strangers to find out everything about you. One thing people seem to ignore nowadays is the privacy [...]
Nokia’s “Social Gift Machine” apparently dispenses Nokia N8s
09/21/2011, Most smartphone users on iOS and Android are probably aware of foursquare, which is a popular application that allows users to “check in” to various locations and share that information with their friends. One of the features that makes it [...]
Foursquare to protect the location of your home
09/20/2011, One of the things that people love doing with Foursquare is checking in when they’re at home – most of the time it ensures that they’ll at least be a mayor in one location on the map. However, it’s not [...]
Foursquare adds events to check-in locations
08/18/2011, Great news for Foursquare users – the check-in social network has officially announced that users will have a new type of check-in to accomplish. Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Foursquare will now give users the opportunity to check in [...]
