Dear Foursquare, After 550 check-ins to date, primarily via SMS, I have a wish list of enhancements that would make Foursquare via SMS so much easier to use. First a little background. I’m a huge fan of the service and want it to succeed, but the SMS experience is frustrating at best. The biggest problem is getting [...]
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How To Use The Foursquare API With OAuth And PHP
I started playing with the Foursquare API and one of the first things you need to do is figure out how to authenticate with Foursquare to make calls to the API. It took me awhile to figure this out and start making successful calls, so I thought others could benefit from a detailed tutorial. The [...]
Thoughts On Eat.ly
Eat.ly is a new web service that lets you “track, share and discover food.” It’s basically a photo blog, similar to DailyBooth, but focused around food. You take photos of what you eat, provide a few details and email them to Eat.ly for publishing. I’m intrigued by it because it’s simple, visual, social and nicely [...]
Foursquare Introduces New Business Tools
Foursquare is one year old and has some impressive stats to celebrate: Over 500,000 users Over 1,000,000 badges have been awarded Over 1.4 million venues with 1200 offering specials Over 15.5 million checkins Foursquare has already discussed that checking in is becoming a commodity and this week there was more news about Facebook and Twitter getting into [...]
