Imagine you’re out and about and you need to find somewhere with a free Wifi hotspot. 4Sqwifi will help you find one, using tips from Foursquare users. Continue reading
May 22, 2013
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January 18, 2013
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A review of Prollie
Thanks to a post on About Foursquare, I’ve found Prollie, which grades your social media profiles. You connect your accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr and LinkedIn, and you receive a grade for each, plus on overall grade. This grade … Continue reading
October 24, 2012
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App of the Week: Timehop
Back in June I wrote about Timehop, which sends you a daily email with your tweets, Facebook status updates, Instagram photos, Foursquare checkins and SMS messages from that day a year ago. Now, there’s a Timehop iPhone app which takes … Continue reading
October 4, 2012
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Foursquare Connected Apps
Continuing my very occasional series of posts about Foursquare on Thursdays (the last one being in, um, June), I’d like to focus on a relatively recent addition to Foursquare’s third-party app ecosystem called ‘Connected apps’. Now Foursquare has supported third-party … Continue reading
June 28, 2012
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Foursquare – so what is it, exactly?
One thing I get asked regularly by friends is ‘what exactly is this Foursquare thing?’ that they often see me refer to. Some time ago I would have given a relatively simple answer, but nowadays, Foursquare is actually several things, … Continue reading
June 19, 2012
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On the midnight train going nowhere
Last week, as expected, Apple announced it was dropping Google as the data supplier for the Maps app on its iOS devices, and instead using data from a variety of sources – primarily OpenStreetMap but also from TomTom, Waze, Getchee, … Continue reading
June 14, 2012
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Foursquare 5.0
It’s a Thursday, and this is a post about Foursquare. It isn’t, however, a resumption of Foursquare Thursday, which I last tried to revive in December – unfortunately, while Foursquare is interesting and constantly evolving, there’s not quite enough to … Continue reading
June 8, 2012
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Timehop
Timehop is a fun web site that sends you an email each day with what you did one year ago, using information from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, and, optionally, your SMS messages from your iPhone or Android phone. You get … Continue reading
January 12, 2012
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Foursquare Thursday – Exploring new places
When Christine went on our little break last week, I decided to use Foursquare for a little more than simply recording where I’d been to get points and badges. The ‘Explore’ feature (which as of today is also available on … Continue reading
December 29, 2011
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Foursquare Thursday – Hopscotch
Normally I’d save app reviews for Wednesdays, but as this concerns Foursquare and it has a rather niche use case, I’m going to review it as part of the occasional Foursquare Thursday series. Hopscotch is an app for Foursquare superusers … Continue reading