Category: Foursquare

Foursquare specials do attract customers in Sydney and Australia

David Cowling | June 1, 2010 | Comments (3)

We have seen the success of retailers and restaurants in the US using Foursquare as a marketing tool, but in Australia we have not seen all that much action yet. However, I noticed Wagamama in Sydney CBD has been one of the earlier businesses in Australia to use Foursquare as a marketing tool. The have [...]

Foursquare reaches 10 check-ins per second

David Cowling | May 28, 2010 | Comments (0)

Checking my Twitter account i just noticed the below tweet by Foursquare. Globally Foursquare is now generating 10 check-ins per second. ie. – 600 per minute – 36,000 per hour – 864,000 per day Almost a million check-ins per day! I am sure they will reach that milestone soon. Remember when it was a big [...]

Foursquare in Sydney Australia

David Cowling | May 25, 2010 | Comments (6)

Foursquare has over a million registered users globally now. Of these users, what sort of demographic has the highest usage? if you are a business using Foursquare to target customers and see their feedback – what sort of people are you reaching out to? In order the judge the popularity of Foursquare amongst users in [...]

Foursquare user usage statistics

David Cowling | May 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

Ok so there has been much hype about social location network Foursquare lately. But how active are Foursquare users? 98.59% – checked in at least once. 93.97% – checked into 10 different venues. 79.20% – checked into 25 different venues. 57.41% – checked into 50 different venues. 77.38% – checked into 30 or more times [...]

Foursquare growing at 15,000 users per day

David Cowling | May 21, 2010 | Comments (1)

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has commented that the service is generating 15,000 new users per day now. This is quiet an achievement for Foursquare, who have stuck a deal with Starbucks in the US. If you become a mayor of your local Starbucks you get a $1 discount on selected beverages such as a frappachino. [...]

TweetDeck secures another $3 million VC funding

David Cowling | May 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

TweetDeck is a social media tool that can be used on mobile or desktop devices to manager your Twitter account and more recently Foursquare and Google Buzz. Betaworks is the company behind the additional $3 million funding to Tweetdeck. Twitter has recently launched their own application simply called Twitter (used to be called Tweetie). TweetDeck [...]

7 reasons why Foursquare will be successful

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

OK so we know Foursquare is a location-based service that allows users to check into venues, add tips and stay ‘intouch’ with friends. But is there really a point, Why is Foursquare going to be successful? 1. Its fun to check in, be ‘seen’, become a mayor, gain points 2. You know where your friends [...]

Foursquare releases their own App Store

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

Foursquare has released their own App store that allows users to interact with the Foursquare API and add photos and videos etc to your Foursquare check-ins. To check out the app store goto: http://foursquare.com/apps/ There are 18 Apps available so far including Hootsuite & Squarepik. Other apps include: Soovox Dev Miso for iPhone Love A [...]

Foursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day

David Cowling | May 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

Foursquare is now getting 600,000 checkins per day from users worldwide. In March they were getting 400,000 checkins per day, and in February was generating 1 million checkins per week. Foursquare is growing fast. Apparently Yahoo has walked away from their previous to buy Foursquare for $100 million, but may be back with a lower [...]

Gowalla releases iPad application, Foursquare not yet

David Cowling | May 17, 2010 | Comments (1)

Whilst we cant get our hands on the iPad in Australia just yet, Geo-location social service Gowalla has released their iPad application last week. I would have thought Gowalla would priorities realeasing their Blackberry application, which is due out in about 2 weeks according to their CEO Josh Williams. Foursquare on the other hand is [...]

Foursquare tips for business owners

David Cowling | May 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

With the success of Geo-location services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, there are several ways business owners can interact with Foursquare users checking into their venue. 1. Encourage people checking into your veune to leave ‘Tips’ and ‘To Dos’ As a business owner of say a restaurant or retail out let- if you can get [...]

Bing Maps and Foursquare to integrate

David Cowling | May 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

Microsoft’s search engine Bing plans to add user content from Geo-location social network Foursquare to their maps product. Microsoft said in a blog post that Foursquare “tips” (ie comments) that Foursquare users submit for a restaurant/venue will show up on Bing maps. This is an interesting move by Foursquare and Microsoft. Currently Foursquare uses Google [...]