Sync Foursquare Brand Page and Claimed Venue

A long while ago, many people were wondering how a business without a physical (venue) presence could connect with its target market. A short while later, foursquare created the brand page. In its latest iteration, foursquare allows brands to check-in and broadcast that onto their Facebook Page and Twitter profile; however, brand pages are not allowed to gain mayorships or badges. Along the way, big brands with physical presences also created brand pages...

Foursquare Tracks the Travel of It’s Users

Foursquare is a data mining machine. They’ve always been great at keeping good, clean statistics about venues and check-ins. And this year is no different. This graph is from 2010′s holiday travel season. They haven’t released this years stats yet (probably want to make it pretty/readable). It appears that Train travel is popular in the New England states and all the way down to North Carolina. Chicago, LA and San Francisco are also...

The Changing Perceptive on Foursquare

We know what the nay-sayers have to say about foursquare: “you’re letting everyone know you’re out of your house, and you’re going to be robbed,” “why would anyone care that you’ve gone grocery shopping,” and “I just don’t get it.” That’s always what I heard when foursquare was just starting. The best part, though, is this perception has changed a lot, thanks to 2011. 15 million...

We love foursquare!

Hi guys! I’m Fernanda Silvestre (@nanndasilvestre), 30, brazilian, a social media planner and lover, and crazy about foursquare. I have to say it’s a pleasure to post here. It’s really an honor to be part of this team! Thanks a lot, Juice and Carlos, for the invitation! I do really appreciate it!  So to start posting here I’m gonna tell about our foursquare’s reality in Brazil. Here, we are still a small foursquare community (for a huge...

Using Foursquare in the Classroom

Advances in technology allow nearly everyone to carry an endless source of information in the palm of your hand in the form of smartphones. Thus it is important for you to make use of this technology to create an interactive learning environment that will better capture the interests of your students. Luckily, whether you are teaching middle school, high school or even undergraduate and graduate programs, Foursquare make this easy to accomplish. With...