Comments on: Foursquare Builds More Bridges to the Real World http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/ Mon, 20 May 2013 01:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brightkite Checking Out of Location, Embracing Group Text: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-546931 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:02:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-546931 [...] talked about previously, check-ins can be tiring, which is why most location companies are looking beyond the check-in. That will be the test for location services now. It’s not enough to broadcast a user’s [...]

]]> By: Election Badges, Vote by Check-In and Twitter Bubbles: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-495993 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:00:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-495993 [...] maps. As we’ve noted before, the location-based service has been gradually extending its virtual game-world of badges and achievements into the real world, and the special election [...]

]]> By: SCVNGR Relaunches Apps As Location Wars Heat Up: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-303638 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:02:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-303638 [...] I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more of it from competitors. Foursquare has already started awarding badges for real-world accomplishments, another take on adding a game layer to the world, and Booyah’s MyTown applies a [...]

]]> By: Foursquare Hits 4 Million Users: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-303409 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:17:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-303409 [...] the one million user mark in March 2010, a year after the service launched. The company has been making feature additions to the service that allow it to attract a more mainstream audience, and in an interview earlier [...]

]]> By: Marc's Voice » Almost end of Sept. ‘10 blogging http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-284010 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:43:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-284010 [...] Connecting Meatspace to Cyberspace is one of the themes of our Digital City project.  Its great to see FourSquare developing more ways to do that! [...]

]]> By: jasson http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-282841 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:10:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-282841 Dennis Crowley tweeted a few months ago that there would be some major developments that would blow people away “this Summer”. That obviously didn’t happen except Facebook Places and I do not think he was talking about that:)

]]> By: Zachary Adam Cohen http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-282686 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:32:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-282686 I give these guys a hard time all too often, but I kinda feel like keeping them on their toes. Only out of love. The key sentence in this whole post is “It’s not clear when this feature will be available for regular users.”

I think perhaps less time doing red carpets and conferences around the world, and more time building out some of these functions. If I were Foursquare, and I am not, I would launch bright shiny new feature every three weeks.

Learn from google. Foursquare talks a lot about what they are going to do…but version 2.0 seems like a pretty mild update, at least to the end user…

]]> By: viscaheel http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/foursquare-builds-more-bridges-to-the-real-world/#comment-282675 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:17:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=159502#comment-282675 really oddball idea. sounds more like a dart being thrown at a wall by a biz dev person. You guys took the bait:)

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