Foursquare

Foursquare’s 11 Hour Downtime Is Unacceptable

by Jeff Weisbein October 5, 2010
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I’m going to come straight out and say it.  Foursquare’s 11-hour downtime fiasco in completely unacceptable.  And you know what?  It seems Foursquare agrees.  According to their blog post which explains the downtime, they state, “All told, we were down for about 11 hours, which is unacceptably long.” Foursquare is currently in a very hot [...]

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Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Booyah Should Be Cautious of Facebook

by Jeff Weisbein August 24, 2010
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Last week, Facebook announced Facebook Places, I’m going to spare you the details of what Places actually is because I’m sure you have read about it elsewhere.  Instead I’m going to discuss how bad of an idea it was for these companies to have partnered with Facebook for their Places product.  Who exactly partnered with [...]

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Foursquare’s Key to Success

by Jeff Weisbein April 7, 2010
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I’ve been promoting foursquare for a number of months now.  I’ve gotten a number of people to sign up and use the service, too.  Many of them even have become what you would call “foursquare addicts” – people who play the game and are constantly checking in to places they visit in hopes of achieving [...]

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Foursquare: Here’s A Solution to Your PleaseRobMe Problem

by Jeff Weisbein March 11, 2010
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By now you have probably heard of PleaseRobMe a service which aggregates all of the foursquare check-in’s into one place using the tweets sent out through the application.  There has been a lot of uproar about this new “service” and I personally don’t see it as such a big deal provided you do not check-in [...]

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Foursquare Launches Its BlackBerry App

by Jeff Weisbein January 21, 2010
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Foursquare users who have a BlackBerry it’s time for you to rejoice!  Foursquare has officially launched their BlackBerry application.  Granted the application is still in beta, it seems to be pretty stable according to some user reports. The Foursquare BlackBerry application is supported on most BlackBerry devices (essentially any BlackBerry with a trackball).  However, Storm [...]

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Foursquare Review: Why You Should Use It!

by Jeff Weisbein December 28, 2009
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Foursquare is a geo-location based service that allows people to easily check-in to places.  While it may sound rather stupid put so plainly, it is so addicting.  I avoided foursquare for a number of months due to the stupidity factor I felt came associated along with it, but I have changed my mind.  Not only [...]

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