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Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

tiffany — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:37:27 -0000

GREAT!
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Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Peter Corbett — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:14:17 -0000

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.

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Micah Baldwin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:54:20 -0000

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...

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Micah Baldwin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:46:51 -0000

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.

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Christine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:43:05 -0000

How is it that FourSquare and Contxts both use the 50500 number as the number to send texts to for their services?

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Sam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:56:07 -0000

It's "breakout" because it is one of the only things released to coincide with SXSW...That's all.

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

RickBakas — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:05:14 -0000

How is this different than Brightkite?

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Mike Mella — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:32:02 -0000

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.

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

David — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:17:06 -0000

Some dubious reporting if you ask me. These features have been in iPhone apps since the app store opened. What *exactly* makes this breakout?!?!

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Dave Peck — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:29:09 -0000

I think it could be big. I do need to play with it some more though!

Re: Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW

Bob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:18:51 -0000

Great app... just wish there was a windows mobile one.