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Foursquare lets you check in with God in south London
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Foursquare lets you check in with God in south London

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 - by Lee J.

While walking around the mainly abandoned Heygate housing estate in Elephant & Castle, south London, we were surprised to come across a closed shopfront with a sign above declaring it to be the Foursquare …

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Facebook buys Gowalla in quest for Foursquare trouncing location-based dominance

Monday, Dec 5, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

We’re still battling to find anything compelling about location-based ‘checking-in’ services like Foursquare, although we can tell that there’s something in there that has real potential.

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Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Foursquare releases v3 Android and iPhone apps

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Company founder Dennis Crowley has been waxing lyrical on his blog as the company preps foursquare version three for the iPhone and Android platforms – both of which should be heading your …

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mobiles / web

Foursquare goes bananas in 2010 with 6m users registering 381m check-ins

Monday, Jan 24, 2011Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

Foursquare has just stumped up some fairly staggering stats showing off their massive growth over 2010, with the company notching up 6 million registered users, while growing 3,400 percent in …

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Blackberry / iPhone / mobiles

Foursquare for BlackBerry gets push notifications

Wednesday, Sep 29, 2010Wednesday, Sep 29, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Blackberry users keen to tell everyone where they are and what they’re doing will be chuffed to learn that the location and checkin app Foursquare app for Blackberry now comes …

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Foursquare 2.0 for the iPhone promises ‘Instapaper’ functionality

Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010 - by mike s

They may be smarting from the recent launch of the heavyweight rival Facebook Places iPhone app, but Foursquare are pressing ahead with the own location-aware, social networking app.

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / web

Facebook Places – Foursquare-thumping ‘check in’ feature – hits the UK

Friday, Sep 17, 2010Friday, Sep 17, 2010 - by mike s

Facebook’s new Foursquare-crushing location-based feature, Facebook Places, has just launched in the UK, a month after hitting the USA.

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Maps 4.4 for Android adds ‘Places’ feature. Yelp unlikely to be chuffed

Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010 - by mike s

Although Google apparently waved a $550m wad in the direction of  Yelp last year, they found themselves turned down by the local search, social networking and user review site. That …

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Android / Blackberry / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / Palm / Symbian / web

Foursquare notches up one million check-ins in a single day

Monday, Jul 5, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

The location-based social networking service Foursquare has announced that it’s cruised past the landmark figure of one million check-ins during a single day.

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gaming / mobiles / web

Dominos Pizza hooks up with Foursquare to offer foodie freebies

Wednesday, May 26, 2010Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

Dominos Pizza has decided to grab a piece of the location-based social gaming pie by using Foursquare to encourage users to check-in at its outlets.

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Android / mobiles / stuff / web

Gowalla extends support to Android handsets; Palm, Blackberry on the way

Monday, Feb 22, 2010Monday, Feb 22, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

It’s proved a hit on the iPhone (mainly in the States), and now the doodz at Gowalla are hurling their popular location-based social networking game in the direction of the …

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mobile apps / web

PleaseRobMe website highlights danger of location sharing Tweets

Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 - by mike s

A new website called PleaseRobMe.com has been created to warn users about the potential perils of using services like Foursquare, Twitter and GoogleBuzz, which let users share their location online …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Foursquare for the Palm webOS released

Monday, Jan 4, 2010Monday, Jan 4, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

There’s already been versions made available for the iPhone, Android phones and BlackBerry (in beta), and now Palm webOS users can install their own app and get stuck into the …

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