Posts Tagged ‘foursquare’

The year 2011 is safely behind us, and it looks like the future of social media is all downhill from here.  It seems the bigger companies are consolidating, either by buying out competitors or enhancing their own services.  A new infographic looks at the major events of 2011.

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

A bold new product is arriving from BERG that plans to redesign personalized publishing, by printing news from Facebook, Foursquare and The Guardian. The Little Printer is an ideal social media interface edited by you. According to CEO Matt Webb, the new product lives up to its name. It is a palm-sized, cube-shaped, thermal printer with [...]

Tampa’s Foursquare users are going toe-to-toe with real-life Mayor Bob Buckhorn. They are competing for the “mayor” title on the Web service. The competition started when Buckhorn initiated his own Foursquare account to engage citizens on his whereabouts in their city.

Part of the trick to managing an enormous amount of information is getting the data moved from screen to screen (from notebook to phone or tablet and vice versa). If you see a “Save to foursquare” button, you can now save information about the place to your Foursquare account. If the Foursquare Radar option is [...]

Foursquare teamed with mobile deals specialist Scoutmob to add 500 new deals across 13 cities in the U.S. The deals do not require a credit card or up-front purchase. Foursquare says deals are often 50 to 100% off. That’s quite a deal.

Nokia’s Near field Connectivity Blog provided interesting, if somewhat dated, information in a recent post. It lets us know that Nokia and Foursquare enabled NFC (Near Field Communications) check-in at Nokia World which took place in London a month ago (October 26-27).

SoundTracking is becoming more and more popular and, of course, that means that it’s becoming more and more attractive to investors — to the point that it has just received some $4.75 million in venture capital.

Quora is a popular community-organized Q&A website. But, did you know there Quora also has an iPhone app with an interesting feature tweak? The free Quora iPhone app lets you ask questions, contribute answers and browse topics as you can on Quora’s desktop website. And, the tweak? Quora for iPhone has a Nearby icon that, [...]

Check out how the University of Kansas used Foursquare’s University Badges for a month-long check-in challenge to encourage students to explore the campus.

Users will find the button similar to the first one. Only publishers will find the implementation of the button a lot easier than before. All publishers have to do is add one line of code to their content management system to computerize the process.