Posts Tagged ‘foursquare’

Revamped Foursquare for iPhone Hits the App Store

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Last week, an App Store error got the latest version of Foursquare for the iPhone into a few users hands a little bit early.
That hiccup resulted in the app briefly disappearing from the App Store before finally returning early yesterday. Now the newly designed version of the app is [...]

Whrrl 3 Wants To Kill Farmville. Not Foursquare. Not Gowalla. Farmville.

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Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander-style. So they approached me with a pretty smart pitch: curing the “social rut.” What they mean by that is these days, despite the [...]

UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare Checkins, And CityGrid Listings

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One of the most detailed 3-D mapping apps on the iPhone is UpNext, which lets you click on 3-D buildings and see a list of the businesses and offices inside. Up until now, however, it only covered New York City.
A new update adds three new cities: Boston, [...]

Foursquare is Back in the App Store

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A couple of days ago Foursquare’s iPhone application disappeared from the iPhone App Store due to “hiccup”. If you doubted that was true, worry no more, as the application is back in the store.
Here’s the official explanation of what happened: “Last week, Foursquare accidentally released to the App Store [...]

HootSuite to Integrate with Foursquare and MySpace This Week

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Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.
HootSuite is one of the more popular Twitter [...]

Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting

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As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic [...]

Foursquare and SPIN Magazine Turn SXSW Into Musical Scavenger Hunt

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For complete SXSW coverage, check out Mashable’s SXSW channel.
Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest’s music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding the most adventurous users of the location-based game with free tickets to their annual music showcase at Stubb’s.
Festival [...]

Meet The New Foursquare. Same As The Old Foursquare — But Prettier.

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/03/05/meet-the-new-foursquare-same-as-the-old-foursquare-%e2%80%94-but-prettier/’,size:’large’} It’s hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. One of them peeked out a bit early: Foursquare.
Earlier today, the latest version of Foursquare, 1.6, went live in [...]

New Version of Foursquare for iPhone Coming Soon [SCREENSHOTS]

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A new version of Foursquare for the iPhone is on the way and it will feature a revamped interface, a brand new user tab, and a new checkin history view.
This version of the app – v1.6 – should be heading to the App Store soon. Nick Starr shared screenshots [...]