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- Category:
- Social Networking
- Release Date:
- Mar 13, 2009
- Homepage:
- http://foursquare.com
- Publisher:
- naveenium
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This morning, Foursquare launched an updated version of its “Explore” feature for both its iPhone and Android applications. The new version brings over several of the features already available through Foursquare on the web, including filters, photos in search results and the ability to change your location. After updating your mobile app, you’ll see the improvements in the “Explore,” section, Foursquare’s local guide which is augmented by your friends’ recommendations and visits as well as other Foursquare users’ tips and comments. Like a mini local search engine, you can search for venues by category (“coffee,” “nightlife”), name, or even something very specific, like what food you’re in the mood for (“tuna,” “burgers”). You can also tap “Specials” to see just those venues offering check-in or mayor discounts. Starting today, you’ll now be able to use the new filter button (at the top right on iOS or bottom right on Android) to
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Apps are, at the end of the day, very personal pieces of software. And your favorite mobile app isn’t mine. So we decided to poll the staff here at GigaOM to see what apps changed our lives in 2011. It could be apps that just launched this year, or it could be programs that really came of age or matured greatly through updates. Or it could just be an app we missed before. Some are very familiar but others may be new to you, but all have played a big part in our lives this year. Take a look and then tell us your favorite app in the comments. Android typically takes a backseat to iOS when it comes to getting slick apps. That’s why it’s so refreshing that Hipmunk, the travel search engine, put real time and effort into making its Android app just as awesome as its web and
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Screenshot of Foursquare 4.0 Radar (click to enlarge) Foursquare on Wednesday launched a new version of its mobile application for the iPhone, Foursquare 4.0. The biggest change in Foursquare 4.0 is the addition of an opt-in feature called Radar, which is made possible by the latest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 5. Radar sends notifications to users based on where they are to remind them to check-in. These alerts are triggered in several ways: when users are close to a place they’ve added to their To-Do list, when they’re close to a place that’s on a Foursquare list they follow, or when three or more friends are checked into a nearby venue. The Radar feature works whether the Foursquare app is open or not, the company said in a blog post. Radar is an interesting extension of Foursquare’s lists feature, which made its debut in August. Now that
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by Foursquare has released version 4.0 of its iPhone app with a new feature called Radar that informs users about stuff happening nearby. Radar leverages new functionality available in Apple’s iOS 5 SDK — specifically “region monitoring.” Once you opt in to Radar, Foursquare will send you push notifications when you’re nearby places on the Foursquare lists that you’ve created and the lists that you follow, Alex Rainert, Foursquare head of product, tells Mashable. The application will also alert you when three or more friends are checked in at a location within walking distance. Radar is a big step in the direction of Foursquare’s vision, says Rainert. “This is something that we have been working on since Apple first released the SDK,” he adds. “We’re excited to see it in the wild … and learn from that.” Foursquare will add Radar to its other mobile applications in the months ahead. “Radar
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The last Foursquare update was a bit more significant than just in-line picture sharing, as it turns out. The pioneer in location-based social networking has expanded their check-in service to include more than just physical locations. Now you can check in to events that are only going within a set timeframe, with custom UI elements for sports events, movies, and concerts. Foursquare is teaming up with a variety of partners to populate their event database, so no user-created events for now, unfortunately. On the plus side, it means that when you check in to a theatre, you can also share which movie you’re watching. Traditionally, Foursquare stuck with sharing where you’re spending your time, and offering points, mayorships, and badges as incentives to participate. Other social networks like GetGlue have been around to share what kind of entertainment you’re enjoying, but as we can see, these two things are quickly starting to
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Back in the day, the knock on the Foursquare iPhone app used to be that it wasn’t very visually appealing. That was especially true in comparison to rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past several months. And now that Foursquare has big funding and a larger team to deal with the pains of fast growth, they’ve been putting a lot of emphasis into how things look and feel. And it’s paying off. Today brings an update to the iPhone app which is brings a new
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Back in the day, the knock on the Foursquare iPhone app used to be that it wasn’t very visually appealing. That was especially true in comparison to rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past several months. And now that Foursquare has big funding and a larger team to deal with the pains of fast growth, they’ve been putting a lot of emphasis into how things look and feel. And it’s paying off. Today brings an update to the iPhone app which is brings a new
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So you’ve got your new iPhone, you’ve activated it with iTunes and now you’re keen to get started – but modern smartphone ownership is all about the apps, and without them there isn’t all that much to do. But with the App Store brimming with more than 400,000 apps to download, how does a new user know where to start? This is where you need our iPhone Starter Kit! Here are ten applications you should download to get the most out of your new device. They’re going to cost a total of $13.93/£9.73 (excluding the GPS apps), but we consider them to be standout examples of their genre, and worth every penny. Even though we’ve not included the usual social networking apps such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare, they’re all available too. There’s a reason Camera+ usually turns up on must-have iPhone apps lists, it’s really good! Aside from adding
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By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 18, 2011 | TiPb’s developer spotlights are like DVD/iTunes Extras for the App Store — a weekly look behind the scenes at the programers and designers that bring you the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games you love. This week Rene talks with Jonathan George and Josh Viney of Boxcar. What should we call you? Jonathan George, Josh Viney What should we call your company? Boxcar (App Remix Corp.) Where are you located? Wichita, KS and NYC What’s your website address? http://boxcar.io What apps do you make? Boxcar What apps, other than your own, are currently among your favorites? Jonathan: iA Writer, Tumblr, Alien Blue (unofficial Reddit client), Instapaper, Calendar. Josh: Foursquare, Calculator, Netflix, Instagram, Words with Friends How long have you been a developer? Jonathan: Developer / 16 years, Entrepreneur / born with it. . Josh: Product Manager / UX Designer 12 years
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Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More In retail, businesses that speed up the check-out process get more business. With Foursquare, it is speeding up the check-in process, which should get people to use it even more. A new release of its iPhone app puts a new check-in button smack in the middle bottom of the app, removing at least one step to check-in bliss. Before, you had to hit the “Places” button first. Then pick a place, and then check in. Now the Places button is gone, replaced by the Check-In button, which brings up nearby places.
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School’s out and it’s time for a break from work. Curious which are the absolute best apps and games to take with you on your much deserved summer vacation? Odds are you’ll want to share your adventures, brush up on local attractions, and stay connected while you’re having fun. Luckily there are tons of apps available in the App Store that makes organizing and sharing your vacation from your iPhone super simple. Whether you want informational apps for your own use or social apps to share, we’ve got you covered. Read on for TiPb’s top 10 most recommended, most must-have summer vacation apps to get your started. For regular everyday check-ins, I typically use Foursquare. But for trips, Gowalla wins hands down. It acts as somewhat of a “digital passport”. They offer stamps and pins for completing trips and checking in at certain places (similar to Foursquare badges). You can also
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By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Jun 2, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Foursquare: Updated with a new “worldwide” button for international buddies, and a new friend finder to help you connect with your existing connections. [Free - iTunes link] iMovie: Now you can play fullscreen video and audio over the iPad 2 HDMI adapter. Also fixed some annoying bugs. [$4.99 - iTunes link] X-Men: The classic arcade brawler comes to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with all the snikt, bamf, and zap! you can handle (Rene wrote that!) [[$2.99 - iTunes link] GarageBand: Audio out over AirPlay, BT devices, and HDMI. Audio in for AIFF, WAV, CAF, and Apple Loops, and copy
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...laatste paar dagen krijgen we bovengemiddeld veel nieuwstips van lezers binnen dat de Places-functie in de Facebook voor iPhone app voor hun geactiv...
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Foursquare has upgraded its Android and iPhone apps to version 3.0 to kick off some new and enhanced features. Officially debuting yesterday in Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market, the free Foursquare 3.0 app has added a new Explore tab that can zero in on the places you want to go. Tap a certain category, such as food, nightlife, or shops, or type in a specific phrase, such as "books" or "gas station," and Foursquare will show you a list of local spots, anywhere from 2 to 10 miles from your current location. For each spot, you can read recommendations and comments from your friends and other users, helping you decide whether to check it out or steer clear. Foursquare has also revamped the Leaderboard, which now displays the number of points you've picked up over the past week along with the amount of check-ins, badges, and possibly mayorships you've
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By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Mar 10, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Foursquare: 3.0 update brings personalized recommendations, a whole new leaderboard, and more types of Specials! [Free - iTunes link] Flipboard: New 1.2 update brings Instagram integration, social and blog search, curated discovery sections, and a performance boost. [Free - iTunes link] Contracts HD: Create new contracts, sign them, and email the completed contracts all from your iPad. Now with new contracts and space for an addendum. [$9.99 - iTunes link] fone: Previously known as Facebook Messenger, this app lets you chat and call your Facebook friends for free wherever they are and now has a new audio component with improved
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As promised yesterday, the huge update to Foursquare is now live for both iPhone and Android. If you’re like me who have both an iPhone and Android phone, you should be hitting the applications’ update buttons on the respective app markets to start enjoying these new features of both apps. Read on to find out what are the new features of Foursquare 3.0 for both Android and iPhone. First among the big changes of Foursquare app is an easier way finding out recommendations of friends based on their check-ins and Tips. This can be accessed through the Explore Tab and can be categorized based on Food, Coffee, Night Life, Shops, and A&E. You can also use the search box to make filter the recommendations to be displayed by the app based on your search keywords. Next is the leaderboard where you can find out how you stack up in terms of
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Ce fameux réseau social basé sur la géolocalisation a mis en ligne sur l'AppStore gratuitement sa version 2.2, qui permet donc désormais de partager les clichés pris depuis votre iPhone ou de commenter les status de vos amis foursquare. Deux apports longtemps attendus par les utilisateurs de l'application.Foursquare compte plus de 5 millions d'utilisateurs : un développement grandement dû à l'iPhone, même si cette application est désormais disponible sur la plupart des smartphones. Au rayon nouveautés de cette version 2.2 : - la possibilité de commenter la géolocalisation d'un de vos amis : vous pourrez ainsi vous retrouver plus simplement ou donner un conseil les bons plans de cet endroit. - les astuces peuvent être accompagnées de photos. De quoi vous faire une meilleur idée avant de commander un plat, voir un concert ou une pièce de théatre, etc. - la possibilité de consulter sur le site de Foursquare.com l'historique des
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One thing that is sure to make my wife roll her eyes in disgust is when we're out somewhere and I check in to a venue using Foursquare. I enjoy using the Foursquare iPhone app to check in, gain or lose the mayorship of a location and occasionally get one of those cool badges that they award to users (I'm particularly proud of my Jobs, I'm on a boat! and JetSetter badges). The free app has just been updated and now adds two fun features -- adding photos and comments to check-ins. This is handy, since I currently have to use multiple apps to a) check in and b) send photos of delicious food to friends. Now it's all possible in one app. There's also a history page on the Foursquare website where you can see all of the places that you've visited. Comments are only viewable by your Foursquare friends,
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Proving that we are well and truly ensconced by the 21st century, Foursquare has finally added photos to the check-in experience. We can only begin to imagine the technological mountains Foursquare had to scale in order to implement this much-wanted, but dauntingly-hard-to-implement feature. There's also a brand-spanking-new first-party Foursquare iPhone app. You can now also comment on check-ins (above right), which should make the synchronization of schedules and meet-ups easier. To make the most of both photos and comments, there is now a History page on foursquare.com, which you can visit to see all of your previous check-ins -- including any photos and comments. Foursquare has been working with its partners to make the most of the new functionality, too: Instagram and Foodspotting will both automatically create 'photo check-ins.' For now, the only mobile Foursquare client for Android is picplz. WebOS is coming later this week, and BlackBerry in January. Developers
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Earlier this month, location-based service Gowalla went on the offensive against rival Foursquare — by linking up with them. Yes, they created a way for you to use Gowalla to check-in on Foursquare (and Facebook). Why would they do that? Because they said that users told them they felt the Gowalla experience was better, but many of their friends were already using Foursquare. So what did that Gowalla experience include that Foursquare didn’t? Well, comments and pictures, for starters. Well, you can strike both of those off the list today. Yes, Foursquare is finally adding both highly requested features to the service. At first, they’ll be available on the iPhone app and the website, but the plan is to quickly get them to Android (next week, we’re told) and BlackBerry (next month). And the service has three other high-profile startups on board at launch to help with the picture element: Instagram,
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Apple has compiled a list called their 2010 Rewind. In it, they have named the top Apps of the year, and gathered them all up into one page so that they can easily be found. Let’s take a look at their top Apps in each category. On this list, you will find Apple’s best apps of 2010. Everything from best iPhone games of 2010 to best educational apps of 2010. Note that these are not our picks (though many of our favorites did make the list) but it’s a compilation of Apple’s favorite Apps of the 2010. Let’s take a look at Apple’s iTunes 2010 rewind: Shoot, Edit, Share – Best of iPhone Camera Utility Apps of 2010 1) Hipstamatic – 99 cents 2) Path – Free 3) Instagram – Free 4) Pocketbooth – 99 cents 5) iMovie – $4.99 6) Splice – Video Editor – 99 cents 7)
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By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Nov 15, 2010 | The 2010 TiPb Awards are underway and it’s time to vote on all your favorite social iPhone/iPad game of the year. You know what we’re talking about. The ones where you pwn — er, share with — your friends. Where you try to oust them, out grow them, out shoot them, out build them, or just out spell them. iPhone or iPad, regular, HD version, or universal binary, there are tons of candidates but there can only be one 2010 TiPb Award winner, so vote up in the pole above and then let us know why you chose the favorite you did in comments below. (And if you don’t see your favorite here, add it as a write-in as well!) Ready, set, vote!
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After some development work from Nokia, location-based social network Foursquare has launched a Symbian application, complete with a home screen widget which displays the latest check-ins by your friends. Now Symbian users can check in to locales and share that spot with friends, as well as write up tips, line up to-dos, and create new venues where there weren’t any before. For those uninitiated with the check-in craze, Foursquare uses your phone’s GPS to determine nearby locations (stores, restaurants, businesses, etc.), and allows you to virtually check-in at those places, as well as share said check-in to Facebook, Twitter, and other Foursquare friends. You can earn badges for checking-in in particular ways, or even become the “Mayor” of a business for checking-in most frequently there. Sometimes there are real-world discounts or perks, depending on the participation level of the business, but usually Mayorship is entirely superficial. It looks like this has
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Posted 10/04/2010 at 12:36pm | by Andrew Hayward Each new iPhone has offered fresh and fantastical ways to improve your daily life, but the epic tag-team of the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 deliver the greatest set of tools and features to date. With the introduction of FaceTime video calls, multitasking, and the high resolution Retina display, the iPhone 4 has moved even further away from being just a powerful phone and web-surfing device. Now more than ever, the iPhone is a true lifestyle-enhancing accessory. Between the built-in features and the hundreds of thousands of options in the App Store, not to mention a few key accessories, the iPhone 4 can be figuratively formed and changed to fit your daily needs, whether you’re planning your daily commute, knocking out items on your to-do list, or simply looking to try a new restaurant. With this wide-ranging versatility in mind, we’ve come up
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Foursquare’s check-in application for BlackBerry has been updated to let you get pop-up notifications as soon as your friends check in to a location. There’s also a fresh round of bug squashes, UI improvements, and code optimizations, all of which are welcome. Foursquare’s presence here at the BlackBerry DevCon has been significant, with a check-in challenge that eventually offers attendees a snazzy exclusive badge and a t-shirt. For those unfamiliar, Foursquare detects your location through GPS, lets you announce where you are visiting to Facebook and Twitter with an archive of locations, and if a spot isn’t there, you can add it. Users can add tips to places (like “don’t get the shrimp”), or tack on to-dos for locations they want to visit. Metrics are in place that keep tabs on when and where you check in, which can result in special virtual badges earned for particular achievements. Gowalla, a competing
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The Foursquare check-in app for iPhone was updated recently with a new way of handling To-Dos and Tips. In the past, the two were lumped together in the same tab, with subcategories separating the two. For those uninitiated, Tips are messages you leave behind at places you check-in to using a mobile app, while To-Dos act as reminders to check-in to locations you haven’t been to before. In order to give To-Dos even more visibility, they’ve introduced a new “Add to my Foursquare” button, which allows web visitors to instantly add a To-Do item for a location they’re visiting. In addition to providing location-based specials to users like usual, this is a great way for businesses to rope in mobile-savvy customers. You can see an example of the button in action over here at Eater, or if you would like to implement a Foursquare button on your own site, just find
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Today, Foursquare has announced the arrival of version 2.0 of their service. This version has been the subject of much speculation for several weeks, as everyone wants to know how Foursquare is going to keep their momentum alive. With Facebook Places now out in the wild, and slowly rolling out around the world, Foursquare is well aware they need to move beyond simply being a check-in service. So have they? As we suspected a couple months ago, there is a new emphasis on both Tips and To-Dos in the new version of Foursquare. Specifically, in the iPhone app, these features now have their own separate buttons for the first time. And on venue pages, it’s now easy to both add a tip or mark a venue as something you want to explore (to-do) later. Both of these features are somewhat interesting and could be useful, but unfortunately, neither are new. Both existed previously,
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Being the geek that I am, I always have time to annoy my wife by checking into venues with Foursquare whenever we go somewhere. The free location-based social networking iPhone app gained even more awesomeness (their description, not mine) today with the release of version 2.0. What's new? A to-do list for organizing your explorations. You can search for a location, and then add it to your to-do list. This would be handy for reminding yourself about restaurants that friends have tipped you off to. To-dos can also be added via websites, if they embed the button on their page (think Instapaper for location-based to-dos). Another new feature is that friends, tips, and to-do items can now be displayed on a map, nice for figuring out where you were planning on going, where your friends have gone off to, and what you were going to do when you got there. This
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by When Facebook Places launched, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley was quick to label Facebook’s location offering as generic. In his rebuttal statements on the competing service, Crowley also promised a completely new version of the iPhone app with functionality that would be like “Instapaper for the real world.” The wait for the new iPhone app is over — version 2.0 has arrived. In version 2.0 [iTunes link], Foursquare emphasizes Tips and To-Dos, which are now split up and given prominent placement in the application’s bottom navigation bar. The emphasis is not application specific, as Foursquare will now also connect the dots between web discovery and mobile activity. The goal is to encourage app users to look at Foursquare as a way to easily save the places they want to visit and store activities that might be of future interest. Foursquare drives this point home with a brand new “Add to My
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28 ago Posted 28/08/2010 by Andrea Perozzi in App Store. Apple continua ad aprire nuove sezioni in iTunes che risultano molto utili al fine di raggruppare tutte le applicazioni simili, conferendo una migliore visibilità alle stesse ed una maggiore facilità per quanto riguarda la consultazione da parte degli utenti. La prima sezione si chiama On the Grid. In questa sezione troviamo una raccolta di applicazioni basate sulla localizzazione di luoghi, persone, amici e conoscenti. Tra le applicazioni presenti troviamo Facebook [Link iTunes - Gratis] con la nuova funzione Places e Foursquare [Link iTunes - Gratis]. Potete visitare la sezione cliccando qui. La seconda invece si chiama Hardcore Games, dove troviamo una serie di giochi a lunga durata, come per esempio Real Racing [Link iTunes - 3,99€] e GTA Chinatown [Link iTunes - 7,99€]. Potete accedere all’intera sezione cliccando qui.
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(CNN) -- Seth Priebatsch was at a burrito joint in Boston recently when a message popped up on his smartphone from an app called SCVNGR. If he opened the foil on the burrito ever so carefully and turned the wrapper into a piece of origami art -- and if he uploaded a picture of his creation to the app, the note said, then he would earn points toward a free burrito. Priebatsch thought: That might be fun. "I made a really weak origami crane, because I'm no origami artist myself," he said, but "it got me closer to unlocking a free burrito, which was cool." SCVNGR, which Priebatsch helped create, is one of the latest apps to build on top of the idea of a "check-in," that emerging term some tech-savvy people use to describe the act of using a GPS-enabled smartphone to share their whereabouts with friends. Increasingly, app developers
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Continuing in my short lived residency here at iDB is my Friday rant that is usually based off a particular story in the week that rubbed me the wrong way. When we reported about Facebook adding GPS check in capabilities I knew my topic had been sealed. I will preface my outburst by informing you all that I am one of the few individuals I know who doesn’t have a profile in the world’s biggest social platform. I had one for less than a month and every lousy expectation I envisioned came to life. I have no bones to pick with users who have Facebook accounts. If I did I would have almost no one to talk to. My beef comes from the irresponsible undertones involved with the new Places feature embedded within the iPhone app. I have yet to hear a responsible or even reasonable explanation for desiring to participate
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Late Wednesday evening, Facebook added a location check-in feature to their hugely popular iPhone app. “Places” is the official title, and the social media kingpin is expected to be the eventual champion of such (GPS) location based utilities. Similar applications allow you to publicly announce your whereabouts, with Gowalla and Foursquare among the most popular. At least they were. The Washington Post is among the seemingly endless sources that report once a user “Checks In”, their location is broadcasted on both their personal and public feed. Security adjustments can be made within your profile to change just how known your want your movements to be. This seems certain to be a dagger to Foursquare and company, but Facebook’s approach doesn’t have the add-ons that other apps have. In Foursquare, you’re awarded various badges and even mayorships based on the frequency and uniqueness of your visits. Places seems to simply announce your position
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Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO and founder of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile application directory Appolicious. About this time last year, he gave us his picks of the best iPhone apps of 2009 up until then, so we thought we’d make it an annual tradition. I’ve been involved in the iPhone app industry since it first began in 2008 and I have to say that it has come a long way. I’ve seen it grow from a meager launch of 500 applications in the App Store to currently over 225,000. In only two years, the industry has matured at hyperspeed. It spawned an entire ecosystem to support it from a multitude of news and editorial resources to developer engines, promotional services and ancillary niches. With over five billion app downloads and a billion dollars at stake, it’s no surprise that
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With the undeniable popularity and success of the iPhone 4 (despite the antenna debacle), iPad, and ever-increasing Mac sales, Apple is gaining customers faster than ever. If you're thinking about making the switch, this could be your perfect setup. Component one: iPhone 4 Now in its fourth iteration, Apple's iPhone has forever changed the mobile phone landscape by thrusting touch-screen technology to the tips of every tech geek's tongue and every consumer's wish list. Despite its early and somewhat overblown issues, iPhone 4 has had record-setting sales. With the exception of the complaints from a vocal minority regarding its antenna, critics love the iPhone 4. Think of iPhone 4 as your mobile communications component in this setup. With it, you can send text messages; make calls; send e-mail, instant messages, and tweets; update Facebook; and check in with Foursquare. Of course, you can play games and download other apps to the
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We’re still keeping our eye out for great iOS 4 apps that take advantage of the new APIs and features available to developers under iOS4. We’ve found a couple more good ones to share with you guys, and as always, if you see any good ones, drop ‘em in the comments so we can check them out too! Even though Foursquare has already received a general update for iOS4, it seems they’re still adding new features. Along with several needed bug fixes, they’ve added support for in-app sms and e-mail as well as more support for iPhone 4 retina display. I was pretty disappointed in Foursquare for quite a while as far as the GPS refreshing and multitasking but it appears this version fixed most of my complaints. It’s nice to see they’re taking an active role in improving the overall user experience. I took a look at this app about
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For those who social media freak like us might be familiar with this Location Based social media networking. Foursquare is very addictive. I joined on April 2010 and unlocked my first badge here then Hubby also joined a few days later, unlocked his first Newbie badge here. At first we played for fun, made a few new places in town. By that time not many players yet amongst our friends so we were like having many places as our teritories. Foursquare lets user become a Mayor if we frequently check ins at particular places. Users should "check-in" or "Shout" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android or Palm. Our check ins then awarded points and sometimes we unlocked cool "badges" depends on venues, times or how many check ins we have to do to get a particular badge. The collection of their
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July 7, 2010 · 12:40 pm I think I am finally over Twitter. I really never thought I’d say those words, but yes, another social media network has sparked my interest. OK the truth is: this isn’t a real breakup from micro-blogging 140 characters or less, just a simple break for me to have some space, to explore, to let my Blackberry sew it’s royal oates with another downloadable app. I could go into an “it’s not me, it’s you” diatribe, but after a while, I’d lose track of the fact that I found something sort of new, and it’s Foursquare. This weekend was all about getting acquainted with the new location-based blogging community on Foursquare. Actually it was just Monday when I succumbed to downloading Foursquare to my Blackberry. All it took was a New York Magagzine article about the new wave of tech upstarts to seduce me into thinking
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...@MikaelDorian: #Foursquare Voir ses amis sur une carte, c'est possible maintenant! Sur l'App #iPhone! http://bit.ly/bDfXI6...
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...@MikaelDorian: #Foursquare Voir ses amis sur une carte, c'est possible maintenant! Sur l'App #iPhone! http://bit.ly/bDfXI6 /via @thomesss...
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More The iOS 4-compatible apps continue to roll-in. The latest is Foursquare which now includes fast app switching and high resolution artwork for the iPhone 4′s retina display. And this latest version, 1.9, includes a little bonus: a new map view. One thing not included, however, is background location. The new map view allows you to see avatar representations of your Foursquare friends overlaid on a Google Map. You can also hit the locator button to show off where you are and see which friends are actually closest to
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One of the Foursquare for webOS developers has gotten a little excited about the next release, and decided to share some of the new features on the way. On top of the usual bug fixes and UI optimizations, you’ll be able to refresh the friend feed and nearby listings with a forward swipe, attach videos to check-ins and shouts, live search results for venues which pop up as you type, and there will be a new navigation menu, pictured above. Foursquare is a popular mobile check-in application that lets you share your location with friends on a place-by-place basis. You get completely frivolous (but fun) rewards for checking in regularly to the same spots, and if the locations aren’t in Foursquare’s database, you can add them yourself. Foursquare plugs in to Twitter and Facebook, so you don’t have to nag your friends to sign up to another social network in order
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By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010 | How does a professional clown use his iPhone to get the job done and what iPhone apps help get him through his day? TiPb’s iPhone at work contest aims to bring you just such slices of the iPhone life. Here’s JimmySlo’s answer and as a small token of thanks we’re sending him a $20 iTunes gift certificate. If you want to see your name up on the TiPb home page and get a gift certificate all your own, head on over to the TiPb iPhone Forum and share your story now! I am a clown in a travelling circus currently touring North America. Before, during (in the dressing room), and after the show, I have my head buried in my iPhone 3GS. Reading blogs, checking the news, and especially checking a Twitter search for the name of my show. I like to get
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Voor Foursquare-gebruikers is er een update van de iPhone-applicatie beschikbaar gesteld in de App Store. In versie 1.8 van Foursquare zijn een aantal bugs gefixt, maar er zijn ook een aantal kleine uitbreidingen toegevoegd. De zoekresultaten voor locaties die je krijgt als je ergens wil inchecken zijn verbeterd. Ook kun je voortaan een melding doen wanneer een locatie dubbel voorkomt, een noodzakelijke functie met een groeiend aantal gebruikers. Een andere nieuwe mogelijkheid is het uitnodigen van vrienden vanuit de applicatie. Ook kun je van alle gebruikers bekijken waar ze mayor zijn. Eerder kon je alleen per locatie zien wie daar het vaakst ingecheckt is, maar de lijst mayorships per user was tot op heden enkel via de website opvraagbaar. Nog niet bekend met Foursquare? Het is een sociaal netwerk waarbij je kunt inchecken op locaties en daarmee punten kunt verdienen. Ook kun je badges verdienen en, als je degene ben die
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Últimamente, se han puesto de moda las redes sociales de localización para móviles, en los que tenemos que ir haciendo “check-ins” en los lugares donde vamos, para ir ganando medallas y saber donde están nuestro amigos. Actualmente, los más usados son y , ambos con aplicación nativa para el iPhone, ambos bastante parecidos pero con ciertas diferencias. En ambos casos, podemos dejar comentarios en los lugares donde vamos, pero en Gowala, además, podemos subir una foto del lugar. Los premios que ganamos al ir acumulando “check-ins” son diferentes, en foursquare son medallas y en Gowalla son objetos cotidianos, como un juego de maletas o una guitarra. El diseño de Gowalla está muy cuidado, siendo muy intuitivo y más bonito que en Foursquare. Las aplicaciones de iPhone son bastante parecidas, permitiéndonos ver las últimas localizaciones de nuestros amigos, hacer “check-ins” y publicarlos en twitter o facebook , añadir amigos, hacer comentarios, ver
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JaguarさんもFoursquareやったらいいのに～！位置情報共有と、スタンプラリー的なゲーム性もあって面白いですよ～
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...@uskeda3mm JaguarさんもFoursquareやったらいいのに～！位置情報共...
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...update in iTunes http://bit.ly/7yF37n #iphone...
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I have to admit it: I like location-based social networking apps. Probably my favorite to date has been FourSquare, which I love because I'm the "Mayor" of a couple dozen locations. But this type of app isn't for everyone. My wife, for example, says that she thinks they're a bit too much like stalking (to which I replied, "there's an app for that"), so she won't use them. Rally Up is a new location-based social network (that's so awkward to say) that has several features that may sway my wife. The free app for iPhone, and soon for iPad, lets you set granular friend preferences. What does that marketing speak mean? Easy -- you set your real friends to "real" on a slider, which means that they get full notifications (i.e., "Steve is at the Blue Bonnet Café) and their check-ins show up in your feed. The next slider setting is
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Risikokapitalgeber Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) verdoppelt zwecks anstehender iPad-Veröffentlichung seinen iFund und investiert jetzt $200 Millionen US-Dollar in App Store-Entwicklungsprojekte. Der iFund war im März 2008 mit $100 Millionen US-Dollar gestartet. Großspurig hieß es zur damaligen Zeit, dass man mit einer solchen Finanzierung “ein Duzend Amazons.com oder vier Googles” starten könnte. Exakt zwei Jahre nach dieser Ankündigung ist von den kleinen Finanzspritzen an unabhängige Entwickler nicht viel zu sehen. KPCB zieht trotzdem ein mehr als positives Fazit. Der iFund hat sich 14 (!) Firmen gewidmet und erwartet daraus Umsätze von $100 Millionen Dollar im laufenden Geschäftsjahr 2010. Spielentwickler Ngmoco (Rolando II, Eliminate Pro, We Rule, etc.) und das kalifornische Start-Up Gogii (textPlus) Inc sind zweifelsohne erfolgreiche Exemplare. Die einen zeichnen sich durch gute Spiele aus, die anderen durch einen kostenfreien SMS-Service. Ansonsten alles düster im iFund-Land. Hat schon einmal jemand von gehört? Deren Anwendungen ‘Hottest Apps’, ‘Slime Ball Lite’
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March 23rd, 2010 James Isabel Gowalla, Yelp and FourSquare… you’ve all heard of these social/GPS based games where you sort of tell everyone where you go to dine, shop and maybe even live? Out of the three, FourSquare just got mightier with the deal they signed with MTV and VH1: Fist Pump! MTV Networks’ MTV and VH1 have inked a deal with location based social media company Foursquare. The deal will see the service integrated into MTV and VH1 programming, as well as spots pushing users to join the service and “friend” their favorite cast members. The companies will utilize Foursquare’s new “celebrity mode,” which lets people follow celebrities, even if they don’t know them personally. When a celebrity “checks in” somewhere, they can send the check in just to their friends, or to all of their followers. These apps are available for other sh#tty devices not named iPhone, personally, though with
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Foursquare has just recently began to take off as a social media service. The service competes with the likes of Gowalla, Yelp and more. As it continues to gain popularity, we are seeing it offered via a variety of different mediums. For those of you who aren't familiar with the service, it is a fairly simple concept. The idea is to provide users with a way to interact with the places they go and share experiences with the community around them. When a location is reached, users can "Check In" to that location and record it. This will earn users points and if a person visits the location more than anyone else, they will become the mayor of that location. The iPhone app offers all the features one would expect from the service. Users can check in to various locations which are listed using the gps on the phone. Users can
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By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 | Tapped on App Store and what did I see? Updates for Tweetie, Loopt, Foursquare, and Flickr — and a couple of those say iPhone OS 3.2 (aka iPad) right there in the What’s New listing. (Yeah, that doesn’t mean 3.2 is coming to the iPhone or these are 1024×768 versions, likely just that they’re built using that SDK for maximum blackboxing on the iPad). Tweetie [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just hit version 2.1.1 and brings iPhone OS 3.2 compatibility(!), Foursquare (4sq.com) integration, Vodpod video uploads, Post ‘message’ parameter to TwitPic, and Instapaper Mobilizer. See our previous Tweetie coverage for more on the app. Loopt [Free - iTunes link] expands the product’s Pulse feature to include tens of thousands of local events, and allows check-in to events, public Tips, and the ability to RSVP to events posted on Facebook. It’s also got you
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Amybeth Hale is a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T’s Interactive Staffing team. She uses social technology to help drive awareness of job opportunities as well as interact with candidates. Connect with her on Twitter at @researchgoddess. As conference season is upon us (including SXSW, of course), I began thinking about all the things one might need to survive and stay connected with a busy schedule of travel and networking. Personally, I’m headed to San Diego to attend both SourceCon and the ERE Spring Expo. Then I remembered that I’m the proud owner of an iPhone, and that almost everything I’ll need to make it through is easily accessible and at the tip of my fingers. Here are some of the apps which I believe will help you navigate, stay connected, and meet new friends when you attend a conference. If you’re the ultimate procrastinator and you haven’t yet booked a hotel,
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This weekend will see all manner of tech geeks converging on Austin, Texas for the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference, and that can only mean on thing – socialized mobile “check-in” apps are going to be getting a lot of attention as the traditionally iPhone-heavy crowd rushes to try out new features. Foursquare, one of the most popular location-based social networking apps out there, has just launched an overhauled version of their iPhone app on the AppStore. With the new app in hand, SXSW attendees will be able to more easily boost their Foursquare street-cred. The new Foursquare app sports a completely redesigned UI to commemorate the app’s return to SXSW, where it first debuted last year. With the redesign, Foursquare now supports a pull-down-to-refresh feature that should make it even easier to keep tabs on what your friends are doing in your area. In fact, the new user interface
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Agile Web Solutions, das Team hinter 1Password, zeigt weitere Mockups der zukünftigen iPad-Version. Die Standardausführung von 1Password (App Store-Link) für das iPhone steht dieser Tage kostenlos im App Store. Photoshop Disasters entdeckt ‘Unregelmäßigkeiten’ in den Fotomontagen des iPhones, die Apple in seiner hier abgebildeten Form immer noch verwendet. Wem geht das Licht als erstes auf? Wer findet den Fehler? 9to5mac gräbt neue Plist-Einträge aus dem kürzlich aktualisierten iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK. Die Dateien sollen sich im ‘Gesten’-Ordner befinden und mit den Bezeichnungen ’3Tap.plist’ sowie ‘LongPress.plist’ auf zukünftige Hand- und Fingerbewegungen hindeuten. Google Voice, hierzulande immer noch kein Thema, erhält mit VoiceCentral eine Webanwendung, die sich lokal auf den Homescreen ablegen lässt. Entgegen der offiziellen Web-Benutzung kommt ein größeres Spektrum an Gesten zum Einsatz, sowie ein verbessertes Caching-System zur beschleunigten Navigation. Als Jailbreak-Anwendung hatten wir Ende Januar GV Mobile im großen Google Voice-Überblick vorgestellt. Eine offizielle Google-Anwendung hat es seit dem
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by Last week, an App Store error got the latest version of Foursquare for the iPhone into a few users hands a little bit early. That hiccup resulted in the app briefly disappearing from the App Store before finally returning early yesterday. Now the newly designed version of the app is in the App Store and available for everyone to check out.Foursquare 1.7 features a new design, faster checkins and shouts, plus an easy way to view your checkin history. The app also features pull-to-refresh, a la Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. The app is a lot more responsive in our tests and the new interface is a big enhancement. This is a nice improvement from the old release and a fitting first-birthday gift of sorts as the app is arriving just before SXSW 2010 — where the app made its first big splash last year — begins. What do you
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We talked about Loopt‘s update first thing this morning and yet, surprisingly, its update still hasn’t actually hit the App Store yet allowing Gowalla and Foursquare to beat them to the punch. Gowalla v2.0 first and foremost features a new design that is said to be more readable and usable than ever. You are also now allowed to upload photos after checking in and browse photos from friends, and checkins can now be commented on. Speaking of checkins, you are now able to come back and add checkin messages for instances where you have skipped typing a checkin message because you just didn’t have enough time. Other Gowalla 2.0 features include: Gowalla‘s competition, Foursquare, also received a bit of a facelift today in v1.7, featuring quite a bit more color and a lot less black. But unlike Gowalla, the rest of Foursquare‘s additions are fairly minimal, only including faster and more
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De sociale netwerkdiensten Foursquare en Gowalla hebben vrijwel gelijktijdig een update in de App Store uitgebracht, beide met een nieuw uiterlijk. We hebben over Foursquare de afgelopen dagen een paar keer geschreven. Foursquare zou een totale make-over krijgen. De nieuwe versie 1.7 is vanaf nu in de App Store te vinden. Behalve een nieuw uiterlijk is de applicatie sneller geworden en kun je efficiënter inchecken. De functie Places toont nu verschillende categorieën, zodat je sneller het juiste type bedrijf vindt.Foursquare 1.7 is meteen te downloaden.Gowalla 2.0 heeft ook een make-over gekregen en biedt je de mogelijkheid om foto’s te uploaden na het inchecken. Je kunt ook commentaar geven op checkins van vrienden, populaire hotspots in de buurt zoeken en profielen van vrienden van vrienden bekijken. Er zijn meer mogelijkheden toegevoegd om contact op te nemen via Facebook en Twitter, je ziet meer gegevens per locatie (bijvoorbeeld telefoonnummer, website, Facebook-pagina, Twitter-account –
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...& more #SalemOR locations are popping up on @foursquare. Come join the fun; get the iPhone app here: http://j.mp/7z9tGk...
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Location-based social networking on the iPhone is a tough game to play, apparently -- the popular Yelp app [iTunes link] has recently updated to version 4.0, and along with a friend finder, hooks to Facebook and Twitter, and an updated version of their augmented reality Monocle feature, they've added the ability to "check-in" from locations around whatever city you live in. When you visit a great pizzeria, for example, you can send a ping out that says you've been there along with what you think of it. This replicates the functionality of another app, Foursquare [iTunes link], which is steadily building up its own social network prowess (you may have seen the "mayor of" tweets lately -- that's Foursquare doing its thing, either on iPhone or through a desktop interface). In this case, the imitation isn't appreciated -- Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley tore apart Yelp's new feature in a recent tumblr
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By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game. So who’s on deck this week and what are our picks? Find out after the break! I am really getting into the whole location-based check-in concept. There are several tools out there but my favorite right now is foursquare. The app and service is free, it scans Twitter, Facebook and your iPhone’s address book for friends. This makes finding friends that use foursquare easy. You have weekly leaderboards to compete with friends and a todo list of places to check out. Give foursquare a try! [Free - iTunes
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Last Friday, the location-based service Foursquare announced that it was opening their service to be used anywhere in the world. The following day, they saw the biggest day in terms of usage ever, apparently. This past Saturday, Foursquare was averaging more than a check-in a second, according to this tweet from the official account. Some quick math tells me that this means they must have seen over 86,000 check-ins in that 24 hour span. While Foursquare hasn’t publicly stated how many users they have, our best guess is
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...@evreeland: Latest @foursquare iPhone app (1.5) just hit the store! Come and get it! http://bit.ly/7z9tGk...
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...@nathanfolkman: Latest @foursquare iPhone app (1.5) just hit the store! Come and get it! http://bit.ly/7z9tGk...
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...pour iphone http://bit.ly/6fOa7s RT @jeanlucr Foursquare, le réseau social qui vous suit à la trace (Jou http://tl.gd/378cd...
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Bolstered by arrival of the 3GS, launch of in-app purchasing and push notifications, the iPhone apps of 2009 have become richer and more robust experiences. Across 11 categories, we’ve selected the best apps of the year. In every category, each winner is an essential addition to your iPhone. This is the ultimate roundup of essential apps for your iPhone from 2009. The sequel to 2008′s Rolando expands on the tilt ‘n’ swipe platforming action of the original. This time round, we’re brought an entire troupe of colorful Rolando characters to protect, alongside a tropical island inhabited by new baddies and a lost Rolando tribe. The artwork is gorgeous, the gameplay is excellent and, thanks to NGMoco’s Plus+ awards system, it’s got bags of replay value too. Having formed his own development studio after working at the Cupertino campus, Loren Brichter has established himself as one of the premier App Store developers.
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Bolstered by arrival of the 3GS, launch of in-app purchasing and push notifications, the iPhone apps of 2009 have become richer and more robust experiences. Across 11 categories, we’ve selected the best apps of the year. In every category, each winner is an essential addition to your iPhone. This is the ultimate roundup of essential apps for your iPhone from 2009. The sequel to 2008′s Rolando expands on the tilt ‘n’ swipe platforming action of the original. This time round, we’re brought an entire troupe of colorful Rolando characters to protect, alongside a tropical island inhabited by new baddies and a lost Rolando tribe. The artwork is gorgeous, the gameplay is excellent and, thanks to NGMoco’s Plus+ awards system, it’s got bags of replay value too. Having formed his own development studio after working at the Cupertino campus, Loren Brichter has established himself as one of the premier App Store developers.
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...thx... jepp, macht spass ;) #foursquare #iPhone #App http://bit.ly/7SAbGZ...
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...have you heard of foursquare? It's a social app that is available on iPhone and Droid! check it! - http://bit.ly/7srIWS #iTunes...
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...und #Facebook bekommen Konkurrenz: das Online-Netzwerk #Foursquare : http://fwd4.me/94N #iPhone AppStore Link: http://bit.ly/7SAbGZ...
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by Earlier in the week, we broke the news that Foursquare had turned on the ability to automatically share check-ins, mayorships and unlocked badges with Facebook. At the time, the functionality only worked for mobile web users or BlackBerry and Android devices, but that’s no longer the case. Now iPhone users who update to the latest version of the app — version 1.4.3 — can share their Foursquare activity on Facebook too. You won’t notice the new functionality in the app itself; the Facebook sharing is actually enabled and configured from the settings panel of the Foursquare website. The process is no different than for the other devices, so you’ll need to allow Facebook to access and publish your Foursquare activity, and once you do, you can choose to share check-ins, mayorships and unlocked badges.
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...foursquare is an iPhone-based app. Kinda fun. http://foursquare.com iPhone: http://bit.ly/7Fc61O...
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...foursquare on iPhone. Get foursquare http://bit.ly/3YTWjA. Get Chorus http://bit.ly/xEyTK...
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...foursquare on iPhone. Get foursquare http://bit.ly/4n6Y2U. Get Chorus http://bit.ly/3gnKx4...
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Still, with this? Well, luckily there's plenty of other stuff to tide us over until the Google Voice fiasco resolves itself. Like zombies! And weddings, and exercise, and soundscapes, and urban art, and political activism, and jokes, and, and, and... The Onion Microfiche Reader: It's from the Onion, so it's pretty much guaranteed not to be not funny, but! For all the neat microfilm-esque presentation, this thing doesn't actually have any articles—just a bunch of those jokes-in-a-headline that the Onion is so good at. Still entertaining though. A dollar. Foursquare: Now you can see who else is checked in at a given venue, who the current mayor is, collect nearby Tweets, and enjoy better Google Maps integration in this extremely strange, strangely popular, highly addictive territorial app. Free. Reqall: Evernote integration. That is all. Free. Strands: The best free exercise app for the iPhone now lets you replay your GPS-recorded running
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While Foursquare’s apps on other platforms (Android, BlackBerry, and WinMo) have been garnering most of the buzz recently, the company remains firmly committed to the only app it developed entirely in-house: It’s iPhone app. In fact, it recently submitted a new version, 1.4, to the App Store for approval. I’ve had a chance to play with an ad-hoc build for the past couple of weeks, and it’s great. It significantly improves two key areas: Usability and its social layer. See Who Else Is Here The most important new feature of Foursquare 1.4 is that it now allows you to see who is checked into any venue at any given time. While previously, you had to rely on your main “Friends” tab to see a stream of where people were checked in, now you can click on any venue, click on the new “People” tab, and see who is there. If you
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...make a list of 12 coolest things they like to do, and recommend them to other foursquare members. You write tiny messages, kinda like tweets, ab...
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Reviews
Unusuable
j740
Totally unstable, not worth the time
Problems, Seriously Lacking Full Cities List
Jeep_Spice
If the app worked as it should, and they were able to grow the program to include more cities, then the app would be fun.
But launching the system with so many missing metro areas and the bugs in the app leave me wondering if they have enough resources to make the most of this ingenious idea. Hopefully someone with some know how and skill can turn this into something great.
Doesn't work!
scooterhandley
First app that I have downloaded that is completely nonfunctional. Same problems as others are having below. Don't bother downloading until it is more stable. For now, this app is worthless.
Usability problems
banifa
The app idea is promissing, however a very poor job on usability prevents it from being useful.
The app does not allow gps positioning and ask you where you are! Interesting concept.
I will uninstall for now.
Totally useless, buggy, unstable
Bhcbhcbhc
It deleted my friends and city list spontaneously and wouldn't let me add my city (NYC) back in. So I reinstalled and now it won't even let me log in. And the other day it said my friend was in Brooklyn when she was in Midtown Manhattan and she couldn't change it. What a useless piece of crap. Good idea but EXECUTIONFAIL.
Promising idea, non-functioning app.
BigDougSchmidt
Besides the fact that the app is not intuitive, and makes you think you're limited to the major cities (it does work in other places outside if the listed cities, but via manual entry)...it does not let me check in! This app does not work. And it's a shame because the idea is really great, the notion of "competition", the sharing of your favorite places, letting your friends know where you are...but alas, execution fail. I'll be patient for one more release, and then I'm putting you in the .com deadpool.
Can't find me in OC
Daddy (TexasTom)
Limited cities.
ughh...
Schizoidman21
This app will not let you register for an account.
Crashes
joshpaul
I'm not certain what changed from the previous version, but the most recent update crashes constantly and is unusable.
Mayor
Weddffgttghj
Use your VC money to make it stable. It's terrible!
Non functional
SPriebatsch
Version: 1.4
Version: 1.4
This app is useless. Downloaded it only because TechCrunch covers it far too much. And had to see what it was about. Fadsquare.
Great potential
quackbot
Version: 1.3.1
Version: 1.3.1
This could be a killer app. There are many things I'm sure the developers already know to add and bugs to fix. The one I will mention : need to open up social aspect. The fact that you can only add people you 'know' is pretty worthless. There's real value in the virtual community. If I see a tip from a user I don't 'know' but like his tips, let me add him. Leave it up to him to accept or not.
Bombs on 3.0
jawngee
Version: 1.3
Version: 1.3
Can't add new places which limits the usefulness of the app. Looks fun though.
Don't waste your time.
Arbitrary Plaid
Version: 1.3
Version: 1.3
I want to like this app, but I can't. The app frequently crashes on iPhone 3gs. The check in procedure never lets me check in where I am. And the tips offered are inane. I miss dodgeball, guys.
ClaudeNorve
Version: 1.3
Version: 1.3
Works well with Twitter
Sign up process doesn't work on 3.0
jonkean
Version: 1.3
Version: 1.3
Try it, it's totally broken!
Crashes on iPhone 3.0
Only-Child
Version: 1.2
Version: 1.2
Potentially fun app, but often crashes when locating and *always* crashes when trying to add a new place. It's also missing a bunch of places in Boston, so that's not really a good combination with the crashing. Hopefully a 3.0 version will be out soon.
Could be awesome, but it's not.
Doc Pop
Version: 1.2
Version: 1.2
This little app had a lot of potential, but is choke full of tiny annoyances. One of the biggest being that there are certain things that can only be done on the iPhone app and others that can only be done on your computer. For instance, if you are out at a new restaurant and try to log in, you might find the restaurant is listed as a venue... you can't add the venue from the app, you have to log in online... which is extremely annoying to do without a computer... but if you create the venue from your computer, you have to go back to the iPhone app to log in. What?! You would think it should be easier to add check in locations to their service for other users to enjoy.
Enjoying the App
smichaels
Version: 1.2
Version: 1.2
Must say that during a big conference, this App was fun and helped me meet up with people and all that good stuff. Probably not as good when I am in a town by myself, but great for large groups.
Frequent crashes after reset
Frozenwords
Version: 1.1
Version: 1.1
I usually take the reviews citing frequent crashes with a grain of salt, but this app is seriously under-developed. It's free, so whatever.
More locations
Addddammmmm
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Portland Oregon and Corvallis Oregon PLZ
Looks great but please add more cities
techchris
Version: 1.1
Version: 1.1
I live in New Orleans so this app is useless to me. Could you please add more cities.
please add more cities
WilWonka
Version: 1.1
Version: 1.1
I live in New Orleans also and very much want to use this.
Dodgeball on steroids
Eudamon
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Yes I realize it's a 1.0 app missing crush list phone to phone invite over SMS yet it's faster and more accurate in finding locations than Brightkite solid app with great promise join the revolution today
Works Great in Boston
Q Lam
Version: 1.1
Version: 1.1
Fun app if you've got friends who'll use it too. A couple of suggestions (that will make the next version so I've been told)
Love this
Dgkris7
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Super fun way to find & stay in touch with your friends while out & about! Highly recommend.
If you added the ends of Long Island, NY, it would be awesome
orchid girl
Version: 1.1
Version: 1.1
Please add the forks of LI, NY, many people and my friends out here have iPhones and would enjoy this. Otherwise this app is really cool :-).
Brilliant idea, terrible iPhone app
jnolen
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Foursquare is awesome -- I wish I could actually play the game. But this is the crappiest, crashiest iPhone app I've ever downloaded. I'll try again when they release the next version.
A fun way to see your Peeps' activity
EatLotsOfMeat
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
A nicely done app to share good places close by, leave comments and broadcast your location all while collecting points and show up on the leaderboard.
This is my Favorite Application
Screentest
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
I use this application more than any other. It is, hands down, my favorite.
Really cool
Notesville
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Really well thought out idea implemented by guys that clearly know what they're doing!
#1 utility for cities
NateW
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
No way to live in NYC (or any other supported city) without it. Sweet Twitter integration. Get your whole crew on it and you'll rule your city.
Great Concept, Add More Cities!
xiape
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
I live in the 5th (or 6th, depending on to whom you listen) largest city, Phoenix, and we're not on the service. In our neighboring city, Tempe, we are home to a university of more than 60,000 students. It would be nice to be included, especially when cities whose potential nightlife isn't nearly as good. Please add us and other great cities that have so far been left out. I'll be happy to use the app whenever I'm in a city that's currently served, but I'd love to use it all the time!
Great app, & I'm very much looking forward to its expansion.
Confusing UI and pointless features
Mom on the Go
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
I tried very hard to love this app but it is one frustration after the next. The developers clearly rushed this out.
great for social butterflies and barflies alike
j_guns
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
great for meeting up with friends (or avoiding foes). no need to set "quiet" hours as there are no pesky text messages every time a friend checks in. handy for locating businesses nearby, which is nice if you're outside your regular neighborhoods. earning badges on this app is far more fun that it was in the scouts!
If you know what's up
court3
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
This is the app that turns going out into a HIGHLY COMPETITIVE adventure and a wealth of new experiences. It also helps you see who of your friends are nearby. Will it be banned? I hope so. THEN I CAN WIN. At life. This version is fairly basic but I'm convinced it will be exponentially better as time progresses!
Not interesting...
Centrality
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
The product is really kind of boring. Uninstalled of in a day... Hope geolocation stuff is better in future applications
Easy easy easy
adamjackson
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Download App, signup, check in and make friends. It tweets out your location and you can even use SMS to update your location if your not in a data covered area or stuck on EDGE. Love it. Simple, easy, effective and oh so meta.
It rocks
Geoff S.
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Foursquare is better than an angry camel in a car. Maybe even TWO angry camels in a car!
Seriously.
Turns life into a massive multiplayer mobile social bar crawl
everyplace
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
From the creator of Dodgeball and his wily co-author, Dennis and Naveen bring the joy of goldfarming to the 4D space of reality. Who could argue with xbox-esque achievements for real-world activities. This software (provided that you live in a supported city) turns going out for the night into a competative sport.
Always freezes when locating
DJ F•lcon
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Always freezes my phone. Doesn't work well for club scene
