Category: Mobile
Foursquare user usage statistics
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 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing at 15,000 users per day
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. […]
Read More | ShareTweetDeck secures another $3 million VC funding
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 […]
Read More | Share7 reasons why Foursquare will be successful
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 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare releases their own App Store
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 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day
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 […]
Read More | ShareBooyah! secures $20 Million in venture funding
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 […]
Read More | ShareGowalla releases iPad application, Foursquare not yet
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 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare tips for business owners
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 […]
Read More | ShareBing Maps and Foursquare to integrate
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 […]
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