Foursquare Geolocation Service Goes Worldwide
Foursquare Geolocation Service Goes Worldwide
Posted 01/05/2010 at 5:19pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Do you think mobile location-sharing service Foursquare is pretty cool, but you live out in the suburbs? If you answered that with a resounding ‘yes’, it’s your lucky day because Foursquare is now playable anywhere. Users can now user their mobile phones to “check-in” no matter where they are. Previously, the service was limited to a few dozen metropolitan areas.
There are currently official applications for iPhone, Android, and WebOS, with a Blackberry app in the works. Increased adoption of these apps will be key to helping Foursquare fend off challenges from Gowalla, Brightkite, and Loopt. Gowalla’s game-like interface is the closest to Foursquare, and they are rumored to have a big pile of venture capital money they can bring to bear.
Most existing users of Foursquare won’t notice much of a difference. The service will now use a given radius to determine which friends’ check-ins to show you; it previously just used the Foursquare supported metro area. Special badges will still exist for specific cities, but the general ones will be available everywhere. Have you used Foursquare? Does it best the competition?
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gmvolk
January 06, 2010 at 6:19am
Do people have nothing better to do than to tell other people how utterly boring their lives are? I just see no point in any of these types of services. I truly hope that 2010 will see the end of twitter,facebook, myspace, and whatever the hell foursquare is. Enough already!
ThunderBolt
January 06, 2010 at 3:37am
Same goes for Twitter. Why the hell would you want to tell people where you are or what you are doing? I don't understand why people care. Did everyone lose their sense of privacy and security? I will never ever create a Twitter, WoW, or that foursqaure account. I simply don't see a point of telling the whole world what the F*** I'm doing, and I really don't give a damn what everyone else does. Only lowlives who need attention (because they didn't get enough of it as kids or they were molested) have the need to tell everyone what's going on with your little pathetic lives. Please, have some decency and privacy.
anonymouse
January 06, 2010 at 8:05am
Yeah, that's real classy. Anyone and everyone who uses these kind of services MUST have been molested. Jesus. There's no need for you to tell people to have decency and privacy, just don't sign up for it if you don't like it. The whole point of social networking is that you participate because you want to share with your friends. It makes the world a smaller place and makes it easier to keep in touch with people from far away.
Simply enough, if you don't like it, don't force other people to not do it. We won't miss you.
ThunderBolt
January 06, 2010 at 2:35pm
Where did I force anyone not to use Twitter or other "social-network" site? Please point it.
As for the molested part, well, if you're an attention-whore, then there's something wrong with you. Sexual molestation is one of the answers.
I'm writing this while sitting on a toilet taking a big steamy pile of poop. How's that for sharing with my internet friends?
nekollx
January 06, 2010 at 9:14am
I'm still trying to understand how World of Warcraft is a Social Networking site for molesters....
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ThunderBolt
January 06, 2010 at 2:36pm
I have nothing against Facebook or Myspace, but Twitter and WoW are just plainly gay (aka they suck wrinkly donkey balls)
nekollx
January 06, 2010 at 3:40pm
so i guess ELEVEN MILLION people are gay....
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ThunderBolt
January 07, 2010 at 3:22am
To be more specific, the gay thing about WoW is the $15/month. I bet that the gameplay is fun, the quests, characters, etc. But paying $15/month for a GAME?! A GAME! How long has WoW been out, 4 years? That's $720 wasted on something that doesn't exist. I have nothing against games, I love gaming, just not paying to play for something I already purchased. But hey, you want to keep draining your mom's credit card, I don't care. Maybe she puts out around the corner for that $15/month.
nekollx
January 07, 2010 at 9:51am
So then i guess you don't get this entire "MMO Thing" if $15/mo is your problem
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