Foursquare

1. Foursquare https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

2. Foursquare • Foursquare Labs, Inc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

3. Foursquare • Foundation date New York City, New York, USA https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

4. Foursquare • Headquarters New York City, New York, United States https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

5. Foursquare • Naveen Selvadurai, Co-Founder https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

6. Foursquare • Website foursquare.com https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

7. Foursquare • Registration Required https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

8. Foursquare • Available in English, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, Turkish https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

9. Foursquare • Foursquare is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

10. Foursquare • The service was created in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai. Crowley had previously founded the similar project Dodgeball as his graduate thesis project in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. Google bought Dodgeball in 2005 and shut it down in 2009, replacing it with Google Latitude. Dodgeball user interactions were based on SMS technology, rather than an application. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

11. Foursquare • Foursquare is the second iteration of the same idea, that people can use mobile devices to interact with their environment https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

12. Foursquare - Features • A 2011 study of unfollowing behaviour on Twitter found that "respondents exhibited a distaste for automatically generated bursts of Foursquare logs." In version 1.3 of their iPhone application, foursquare enabled push-notification of friend updates, which they call "Pings" https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

13. Foursquare - Features • Users can create a "To Do" list for their private use and add "Tips" to venues that other users can read, which serve as suggestions for things to do, see or eat at the location. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

14. Foursquare - Features • In addition, a history page allows users to search past their check-ins, which is broken down by month and year. A sidebar also allows them to search their check-ins by category or who they were with at the time. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

15. Foursquare - Mayorship • When a user "checks in" to a venue on foursquare via a Mobile App, if she or he is within 10 check-ins of becoming the mayor, foursquare alerts the user of the days left before becoming mayor on the check-in confirmation screen. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

16. Foursquare - Badges • Badges are earned by checking into various venues. Some badges can only be earned in a specific city. Foursquare has, however, changed the way they handle badges, and now when a user gains a badge, he or she has the same badges across all cities. Once a badge is earned by a user, it will remain on that user's profile indefinitely. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

17. Foursquare - Badges • There are a handful of introductory badges that are earned as milestones in usage. Some badges are tied to venue "tags" and the badge earned depends on the tags applied to the venue. Other badges may be specific to a city, venue, event, or date. Some badges use identical icons, but are earned differently. There is no official foursquare badge list available from the company. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

18. Foursquare - Badges • On September 23, 2010, foursquare announced that users could now earn badges for completing tasks as well as checking in. On October 22, 2010, astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock unlocked the NASA Explorer badge by checking into foursquare from the International Space Station. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

19. Foursquare - Scoring • Each time the user checks into a place, he or she receives points. There are more than 100 reasons Foursquare awards points. Some of the most commonly awarded ones are below: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

20. Foursquare - Scoring • Becoming the Mayor of a venue – 5 points https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

21. Foursquare - Scoring • Being the first of the user's friends to check into a new location – 3 points https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

22. Foursquare - Scoring • Checking in to a place the user has been before – 1 point https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

23. Foursquare - Scoring • Users can check their standing against friends on a leaderboard within the app. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

24. Foursquare - Superuser status • The service provides three levels of "Superuser status" (which is not to be confused with the "Super User" badge). Superuser status is conferred on users who have been selected by foursquare staff for their helpful contributions to the community. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

25. Foursquare - Superuser status • All superusers can review a queue of requested changes for a single city, and can select a new city at will. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

26. Foursquare - Superuser status • Superuser level 1 can edit venue info (name, address, cross street, phone, Twitter names, map pin location), mark venues as open or closed, request venue merges and deletions, edit venue tags, and add categories. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

27. Foursquare - Superuser status • Superuser level 2 can additionally merge duplicate venue listings, adjust the latitude and longitude of a venue, add a web address, and access a "country queue" of pending requests. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

28. Foursquare - Superuser status • Superuser level 3 adds the ability to create and remove venue aliases, as well as access a "global queue" of pending requests needing superuser attention. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

29. Foursquare - Brands • Foursquare Brands allows companies to create pages of tips and allows users to "follow" the company and receive special, expert tips from them when they check-in at certain locations https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

30. Foursquare - Brands • On July 25, 2012 Foursquare revealed "Promoted Updates," an app update which will create a new experience for both consumers and merchants as well as create a new revenue generation stream for the company. The new program will allow companies to issue messages to Foursquare users about deals or available products. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

31. Foursquare - Brands • In June 2013, the company introduced Time Machine, which provided a visual way to review ones historical check ins on the service. This feature contained an advertisement for the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

32. Foursquare - Specials • Some Foursquare users only use Foursquare for the "Specials". https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

33. Foursquare - Growth • Foursquare started out in 2009 with limited availability in only 100 worldwide metro areas. In January 2010, foursquare changed their location model to allow check-ins from any location worldwide. On February 21, 2011 foursquare reached 7 million users IDs. On August 8, 2011 President Barack Obama joined foursquare, with the intention that the staff at the White House would use the service to post tips from places the president has visited. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

34. Foursquare - Devices • Users may also use their mobile browsers to access foursquare mobile, but feature phone users must search for venues manually instead of using GPS that PDA applications can use. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

35. Foursquare - Foursquare 2.0 • Around this time, third party sites such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Zagat added an "Add to My foursquare" button, which would add a location to the user's to-do list. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

36. Foursquare - Foursquare 3.0 • Foursquare 3.0 was released for Android and iPhone users on March 8, 2011. As of July 4, 2011, the official Foursquare application for Windows Phone 7 also has these features. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

37. Foursquare - Foursquare 4.0 • Foursquare 4.0 was released for the iPhone on the morning of October 12, 2011, with other platforms following after. The update added a new feature called "Radar", powered by Foursquare's "Explore" algorithm. Radar is able to notify the user, for example, when they are close to a place that's either on their to-do list or another list they follow or when three or more friends have checked into a nearby venue. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

38. Foursquare - Redesign • On June 7, 2012, Foursquare launched a major redesign, which they described as a "whole new app". The app's "explore" function will now allow users to browse locations by category or conduct a specific search like "free wi-fi" or "dumplings". Foursquare incorporated features from social discovery and local search applications, as well as the "like" feature made famous by Facebook. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

39. Foursquare - Redesign • On November 5, 2012, Foursquare announced an update to their iOS Mobile App that will showcase a ratings system to locations on a one to ten scale. The ratings will be based on tips, dislikes and ratings from previous check-ins. This update will help foursquare better compete with other location services like Yelp. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

40. Foursquare - Redesign • On November 7, 2012, foursquare announced another update to their iOS Mobile App, allowing users to check in to a location with Facebook friends who do not use the service themselves. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

41. Foursquare - Redesign • On November 21, 2012, foursquare announced a "Recently Opened" feature to its iOS app, allowing users to find recently opened locations in their areas. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

42. Foursquare - Funding • On June 24, 2011, Foursquare raised $50 million on a $600 million valuation https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

43. Foursquare - Partnerships • In February 2010, the company entered into new commercial partnerships with Zagat, Bravo, Conde Nast, The New York Times and several other firms to offer tips, specials and new badges to followers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

44. Foursquare - Partnerships • In June 2011, Foursquare announced a promotional partnership with American Express, as part of AmEx's "sync" Social Media strategy, which allows for discounts to be applied directly to qualified American Express account holders by checking in to participating vendors. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

45. Foursquare - Partnerships • In March 2012, Foursquare announced they would no longer be using Google Maps for their platform, instead moving to OpenStreetMap, via MapBox rendering and style. Foursquare described the move, stating they are happier to promote crowd-sourced, open data. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

46. Foursquare - Partnerships • Foursquare partnered with the London 2012 Olympics, allowing users to check in at numerous locations in and around the Olympic venue. A "Get Fit for Olympic Day" badge was created for the event as well. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

47. Foursquare - Awards • In 2010, foursquare was named a runner-up in the T3 Gadget Awards 2010 as the App of the Year. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

48. Foursquare - Awards • In August 2010, the company was a finalist in Lead411's New York City Hot 125. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

49. Foursquare - Awards • In April 2010, foursquare received a Webby Award as one of the best mobile social networks. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html

50. Foursquare - Awards • In March 2010, foursquare was nominated for the 13th annual SXSW Web Awards in the Mobile Category. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-foursquare-toolkit.html