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Foursquare Turns Your Check-ins into Explore for the Web

If you’re a heavy foursquare user like I am, you know that your check-in data from over the years is pretty interesting to look at. While it’s extremely interesting, you…

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FoursCrowd Shows you Crowded Locations

Depending on what type of person you are, you might want to head to a coffee shop that is bustling with people, or one where there’s nobody to be found….

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Get a Recipe Every Time You Check-In at a Grocery Store

I really enjoy simple apps that do things that make my life easier or more interesting. Whenever you go to the supermarket, you probably have a list with you, but…

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Save Your Gowalla Data, Thanks to TouristEye

At the beginning of the month, travel and check-in service Gowalla was acquired by Facebook. That sounded like a good deal for both companies, considering Gowalla never got past its…

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NBCPolitics and Foursquare Team Up For Campaign Coverage

Technology and politics go together like peanut butter and jelly. With Twitter being such a huge part of the campaign in 2008, specifically for Barack Obama, mainstream media is looking…

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Google Announces 'Schemer', a New Location Service

It’s been a busy day in tech, with Twitter, Facebook, and Google all getting into the act of launching new products and features. It’s the busiest December we can remember….

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TripsQ Tells You How Many Foursquare Miles You've Traveled

If you religiously check-in using foursquare whenever you travel, the app TripsQ will pull all of that information together to tell you just how much you’ve actually traveled. The data…

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App.bg Pulls Together All Things Local

Even though Instagram, foursquare, and Twitter let you find all of the activity going on around you no matter where you are, one app brings local content from all three…

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Magic Muggle Clock Visualizes Foursquare Check-Ins

If you’re a fan of Harry Potter, I’m sorry to report that this foursquare app has nothing to do with either the books or the films. What the Magic Muggle…

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LocalUncle Says "Screw Google", Ask Humans

Even though foursquare lets you leave tips about popular restaurants and attractions, you’re more than likely only going to see the tips once you’ve checked in. LocalUncle for iOS sits…

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Tampa Mayor uses foursquare to Help you Tour his City

When you’re visiting a city for the first time, you have a lot of options to help you find cool places to go. You can ask your friends and locals,…

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SkyChalk is for Scribbling Notes on a Map

If you’ve used services like foursquare that let you check-in to a location or leave tips, then you’re familiar with the concept of leaving your digital mark on top of…

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Need to pee in Paris? Try this app

Apparently, finding a public restroom whilst in Paris is something worthy of developing an app for. The Pee In Paris web app uses foursquare’s API and lists all of the…

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4SQoogle shows foursquare check-ins on Google Maps

We’ve written about some of the cool things that you can do with the foursquare API. We’ve seen visualizations of check-ins, and tools to help you find places around highway…

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Regular? Automate your foursquare check-ins with Auto4Sq

If there are places that you visit daily or even routinely and check-in using foursquare, you might want to automate the process. If you’re actually going to that place physically,…