Category: Mobile

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 [...]

Booyah! secures $20 Million in venture funding

David Cowling | May 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Booyah! a rival to Foursquare in the Geo-location mobile application space has secured a further $20 Million venture capitalist funding. Booyah! has released the iPhone application MyTown and Keith Lee who is the CEO says the funding will gBooyah! secures $20 Million in venture fundingo towards hiring new staff and building new projects. MyTown has [...]

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 [...]