I remember a few years back when all the location-based services, like Foursquare, didn’t have a complete set of locations to check-into. I would often find myself creating a new location or skipping the check-in altogether. Today, that seems like an issue of the past, as Foursquare recently said: “We’ve hit a pretty amazing milestone …
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It’s official, all the social networking sites have started adding “promoted” tweets/posts/places to your news feed. It’s no surprise considering that Twitter, with its “promoted tweets,” recently said it has a “truckload of money in the bank”. Today Foursquare is launching its version of search ads, Promoted Updates. Promoted Updates operate like Google’s promoted listings or Twitter’s …
If you use foursquare to check-in to your favorite locations and share those notifications on Facebook, then you’re in for a treat. Foursquare has announced that your foursquare check-ins will now populate your Timeline map. Before, only actual Facebook check-ins as well as location tagged images would populate that map. This is a pretty nifty …
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Now, when you see a friend’s foursquare check-in on Facebook and want to try that place too, you can click the new ‘Save this Place’ link and save it to your foursquare to-do list for later. All it takes is one click, and you can do it right from Facebook (the save will appear on …
Want to remember all the places you went to on last summer’s trip to Mexico? Or relive all the adventures you’ve had with your best friend? With our all-new, fully-searchable history page, you can easily jump to all your past check-ins from any month or year, and even filter them by who you were with, what …
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Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide‘s homepage. Gowalla launched in 2009 and raised approximately $10 million. Facebook’s acquisition price hasn’t been disclosed but is rumored to be primarily Facebook stock. via TNW …
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In October 2011, Google finally revealed pricing for Google Maps services. Lightweight usage was still free…significant load volumes would begin to incur charges: basically, services and applications that generated more 25,000 map loads per day would be charged $10-$40 for every additional 1,000 map loads. For businesses put off by the new costs of Google Maps, …
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These icons are from the lead designer at Foursquare. The gray ones are meant to identify locations and the color ones are badges meant to reward you for something. Can you identify the location and/or reward for each one?
For all the folks wondering if Foursquare has jumped the shark, and more specifically, what’s the point? — the point is Foursquare is about to become the shark, at least in the blue ocean of mobile, location-based social networking. Since launching in March 2009 at SXSW, I’ve been waiting for the Silicon Alley start-up to create some real value …
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