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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

  • Bob · 8 months ago
    Great app... just wish there was a windows mobile one.
  • Dave Peck · 8 months ago
    I think it could be big. I do need to play with it some more though!
  • David · 8 months ago
    Some dubious reporting if you ask me. These features have been in iPhone apps since the app store opened. What *exactly* makes this breakout?!?!
  • Mike Mella · 8 months ago
    I agree. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to think this is amazing.

    Why should I care that other people who use Twitter are near me? ...Unless they're already my friends, in which case they could let me know in any number of ways.
  • Sam · 8 months ago
    It's "breakout" because it is one of the only things released to coincide with SXSW...That's all.
  • RickBakas · 8 months ago
    How is this different than Brightkite?
  • Christine · 8 months ago
    How is it that FourSquare and Contxts both use the 50500 number as the number to send texts to for their services?
  • micah · 8 months ago
    Multiple apps can use the same short code (its a common practice to have a shared short code). Dennis and Danny are long time friends, and so it made financial sense. I imagine if foursquare and contxts continue their growth they will get different short codes.
  • micah · 8 months ago
    I was lucky to be in the pre-alpha (foursquare is now just in the alpha stage). I was immediately hooked, as its clear that foursquare (other than the checking into locations) is nothing like brightkite. BrightKite is focused on people around a location, while foursquare is about activity.

    When you check into a location, there are suggested todos (one is always presented to you from one of your friends as a popup), and the gaming element, which will eventually be modified by the players themselves.

    Within the first couple of days at SXSW a couple thousand people had checked into foursquare (given my friend list and the friend list of people like Kevin Rose, Gary Vaynerchuk and Scott Beale of Laughing Squid)

    I worry about small cities to support foursquare's gaming element, but the concept of showing up to a new city, large or small, and have a list of to-dos from friends is awesome...
  • Peter Corbett · 8 months ago
    Zzzzz.....

    Not to be a hater, but this shit is not going to change the world. We need talented people working on stuff that will.
  • tiffany · 2 months ago