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Why Foursquare and I Split Up

Ari Herzog

After 2,240 check-ins, 669 photos, 106 tips, 46 badges, and 21 mayorships, I deleted my Foursquare account. ” “I never used Foursquare to find places; I used and still use Yelp.” ” “I used Foursquare for the function that is now on Swarm. I don’t want two apps. I want one app.”

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Foursquare - HBO Tie-Up is Brilliant

Social Media Marketing

But the latest iteration is pure genius on the part of HBO and Foursquare. Here you can see the rankings of each, as well as the ice cream shops'' badges as they are referred to as "Houses" in Game of Thrones parlance. foursquare Marketing' No word on that beyond the bragging rights of having beaten the other shops.

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Stand By for a Foursquare Superuser

Socialized

Perhaps it doesn’t deserve the status of a combat fighter pilot, but Foursquare has upgraded me to “Superuser&# status, which means: “you gain the ability to edit our venue database (fixing incorrect addresses, suggesting duplicate venues, marking places as “closed&# , matching venues with their Twitter accounts).

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Experts ” have recently placed Foursquare valuations in the $50M to $70M range. I think this is low, and I also think it is too soon for Foursquare to sell. Part of Foursquare’s appeal is that it does one thing really well.

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Roskilde Festival is on Foursquare

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Defining a Strategy To Use Content In B2B Marketing Meet The Founder of The Bees Awards » Roskilde Festival is on Foursquare Posted by Anne Herngaard Jul 5th, 2010 Tweet I’ve been attending Roskilde Festival.

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Local Business Offers Up Foursquare Special

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Local Business Offers Up Foursquare Special by Justin on June 9, 2010 Last week, I wrote about Foursquare’s widespread growth and how some organizations are trying to utilize the location based social network.

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Citing privacy concerns and not wanting strangers to know where I was every moment I checked in to a location, I deleted my Foursquare account 14 months ago. Forrester Research recently surveyed 37,000 mobile users and in its report issued this month, a mere 2% of those users had Foursquare accounts. My past caught up with me.