Foursquare launching 14 new European cities today (update: it’s 15)
Good news for those of you desperate to play Foursquare, the hugely popular location-based game: new European cities are being switched on today.
Until now London and Amsterdam were the only European cities able to play.
We’ve been playing with the prelaunch testing of these cities for the past few days and can reveal that lined up for launch today are: Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, San Antonio, Madrid, Manchester, Paris, Prague, Rome and Stockholm. (UPDATE: plus Geneva too).
Speaking on Foursquare’s support forum, co-founder Dennis Crowley says that a further round of non-European cities would be launching soon.
On the ‘Foursquare Everywhere’ concept we reported on recently, Dennis writes:
“We’re working towards a “Foursquare everywhere” model – so you’ll just be able to play wherever you happen to be… “featured city” or random suburb. Hoping to have this out in the next few weeks.”
Foursquare has achieved a hugely positive response in its short life thus far, especially in New York and San Francisco where the blogorati have made it a posterchild for the new wave of location-based services.
Although largely designed to be a game in which players compete to unlock badges for completing tasks and to become the ‘Mayor’ of locations they frequently visit, it has taken off as a social networking tool as well. Many users have stories of how knowing where their friends were has led to opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise have experienced.
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Interesting to see how they’re taking on Gowalla in this respect. The annoying thing about Foursquare though is user’s incessant desires to broadcast their location without context.
en Koevorden dan? :p
[...] Good news Foursquare fans or those in Europe who want to get in on the action. Co-founder Dennis Crowley has confirmed that they have “a big round of European cities coming out today (!! – Nov 4) and then some ‘Worldwide’ cities after that.” He made the comment in a support forum (hat tip to The Next Web). [...]
[...] Good news Foursquare fans or those in Europe who want to get in on the action. Co-founder Dennis Crowley has confirmed that they have “a big round of European cities coming out today (!! – Nov 4) and then some ‘Worldwide’ cities after that.” He made the comment in a support forum (hat tip to The Next Web). [...]
Singapore Next Please!
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Why manchester, yet not liverpool? Stupid.
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Kenn: you should check out Gowalla: it’s a groovy new location-based social service that already works in Singapore! http://www.gowalla.com or http://bit.ly/walla
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I can’t believe anyone would want to go out in Brussels. And, how about Milan being, like, the second-biggest fashion city in Europe?
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you mean the European San Antonio?
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Glad to see San Antonio on the list. Hopefully Dallas will be soon, as well.
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Hmm, shouldn’t it be ‘cities’ instead of ‘cites’?
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Haha,I agree with the Brussels part and that Milan would be an obvious city to add. Also lot’s of Milanese seem to have smart phones.
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reykjavik, please!
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Thanks, Will check it out.
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Foursquare is leading the way. No point using Gowalla in my opinion (except for the nicer design)
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Have either of you stayed in Brussels for more than a few days? It’s like saying you can’t go out in Washington D.C. … Where there are politicians, there are journalists and bars. Only: The food in Brussels is probably better than in Washington.
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dude your ignorance would be sad if it wasn’t so laughable…
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I have been in Brussels a couple of times within the past 2 years, and I thought there were a lot of nice places so no pun intended.
However, there is no way Brussels can compete against Milan in terms of quality of cuisine and places to go out. And we even have some pretty good Belgian restaurants too
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It’s actually 15 new cities, not 14. They added Geneva and Munich (and not San Antonio).
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Foursquare comes to Stockholm…
Foursquare is a location-based social network with gaming elements, and it is the latest hype among tech savvy social media users….
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Bangkok is waiting…
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hey kenn – give us another week or two and we’ll have something for you to play with in Singapore.
-dens @ foursquare
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hey kenn – give us another week or two and we’ll have something for you to play with in Bangkok.
-dens @ foursquare
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[...] Foursquare launching 15 new European cities today [...]
[...] highly reminiscent of Foursquare, the location-based game that launched in 15 new cities yesterday, but aimed at the generation of snap-happy mobile photographers who use Flickr to share their lives [...]
+1 on Gowalla. I’ve been playing with Gowalla and FourSquare and apart from the points scoring aspect in of FourSquare Gowalla has FourSquare beat hands-down on range (anywhere) and user-interface. On the range side of things I’ve noticed FourSquare does let me set up spots that are not in London but categorises them as London – hmmm; and it’s spot-locating list when you want to check in leaves a bit to be desired.
I like the Items aspect of Gowalla. It’s like virtual geo-caching. If they could implement getting photos or video etc into the virtual geo-cache for a Spot then it would be even better.
#gowalla #foursquare
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Nice Post, and very informative.
Thanks for sharing.
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And of course, you’ve been able to use Rummble anywhere since we launched
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