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Foursquare Review: Why You Should Check In

Bill Hartzer

Well, that’s the basic premise behind Foursquare. Foursquare is a social networking website that works off the location of its users. Keeping up with the whereabouts of your friends has never been easier than with Foursquare. You can even earn badges giving you bragging rights for that venue.

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The Reality Behind the Check-In Hype [infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet About a year ago location based services (LBS) such as Foursquare , Gowalla was announced as the new big thing in digital and social media. Facebook has of course been good at picking up on media trends as they launch their own LBS service in Facebook Places in August 2010. Foursquare Teams Up with American Express.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge.