10/15/2010, Recently several high-profile sites have suffered outages, notably Foursquare. Now Yahoo has unfortunately added itself to the list by going down temporarily, though it’s already back up. The search company has since issued a statement confirming the issue and claims [...]
10/04/2010, Foursquare addicts will probably already know about this, but the geolocation/social check-in service was down for a good nine hours, which undoubtedly caused much stress to its active community. Apparently the downtime was due to the servers being overloaded, and [...]
09/14/2010, When Nokia unveiled mobile check-ins for its Ovi Maps, you may have noticed that Foursquare was missing from the list of supported services and now the reason is much clearer. Nokia has been busy working on an officially branded Foursquare client [...]
09/10/2010, With location-based services on the rise, and given Facebook‘s popularity, its recently launched Facebook Places location check-in feature should make it a good choice for you to let friends and others know where you are. The problem is, when others–those [...]
08/31/2010, MTV and Foursquare check-in service will reward users with a badge in the month of September for getting tested and screened for STDs as part of a campaign to raise awareness and remove the stigma behind getting tested for sexually [...]
08/19/2010, As expected, Facebook has launched Facebook Places, the social networking giant’s equivalent to Foursquare’s location check-in service. Users using the service will be able to check-in in a similar fashion to Foursquare, and can even tag friends who are in [...]
08/17/2010, The folks over at Foursquare might have something to worry about, as Facebook has begun to send out invitations for a news event at its Silicon Valley HQ this Wednesday. While it wasn’t explicitly mentioned what the event will be [...]
08/03/2010, Foursquare users who are frequent flyers should take note that airplane passengers who check into Foursquare via Gogo’s Inflight Internet service will be greeted with the “Mile High Badge“. The badge itself doesn’t do anything, but it does help you [...]
03/17/2010, [SXSW] At SXSW, I met with Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO, of Loopt, a location-based social networking site, and he showed me the new Loopt app for the iPhone. Loopt introduced its new Pulse button that allows SXSW attendees to [...]