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Amazon cloud outage brings Reddit, Pinterest, Netflix down
Amazon‘s cloud services seem to be struggling a bit today, as our friends at SlashGear are reporting that a failure has brought down a number of huge sites like Netflix, Reddit, Pinterest, and...
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The Best of Foursquare ranks users’ favorite check-ins
Many of us use Foursquare, and if you’ve been hoping for a way to use the app to find the best of the best, then today’s your lucky day. The developers behind the app have looked through a whopping 3...
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Foursquare for Business goes live on Google Play Store
Business owners who use Foursquare will be pleased to know that they now have an app made specifically for them waiting on the Google Play Store. Foursquare for Business rolled out for Android this...
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Foursquare for Android update brings search and discovery improvements
Foursquare users, you have an Android app update ready and waiting. The update is available in the expected location, that is to say the Google Play Store. Perhaps more important though — the changes...
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Foursquare update brings the ability to check a friend in
The latest Foursquare app update has arrived in the Google Play Store and this is one that should be welcomed by those who are often checking in with others. The folks at Foursquare have said this new...
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Foursquare rolling out update with proactive recommendations
“Check in” might have been a loaded phrase in the past, but in recent years it has become synonymous with Foursquare‘s system of letting your friends, and sometimes the whole world, know where you’re...
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Foursquare app updated, brings a fresh look and simpler functionality
Foursquare has been updated, bringing a fresh look with updated Android functionality. The new slide-out menu is present, and the logo has been flattened. We think it looks a touch iOS-ish, but in a...
View ArticleInstagram may ditch Foursquare for location tagging
Instragram may be migrating away from Foursquare. The photo sharing service currently uses Foursquares database for their location services. It seems that Instagram is now testing Facebook Places for...
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Timehop app hands-on: providing a daily trip back in time
Timehop, as a service, has been around for many years now. But given the app just recently arrived in the Play Store, it may be one that flew under the radar of many Android users. The premise here is...
View ArticleFoursquare announces Swarm, takes on Facebook’s ‘Nearby Friends’
In a time when many other services are merging, Foursqaure is splitting up. The company has announced they are pulling themselves apart, and creating a service called Swarm. Swarm will act as a new...
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Path comes up with new messaging app called Talk
The social networking platform Path has been relatively quiet this year, nary releasing a major update to change up its patented approach to “quick” social networking. That all changed today as the...
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Foursquare relaunches with a more personalized service
Foursquare started out as one of the earliest location-sharing apps, where you can let others know where you’ve been and keep track of where your friends are. But over the past few months, they’re...
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Foursquare version 8.0 focuses on customized recommendations
Two weeks after Foursquare announced that they are rebranding from the ground up, they have finally unveiled version 8.0, and simply checking-in is definitely a thing of the past as far as the new app...
View ArticleInvite your loved ones to go out through Swarm’s private messaging
Have you ever wanted to send an invite to a group of friends to eat out in this new restaurant, but didn't want to broadcast it to your whole social network? Well, yes, there are a ton of group...
View ArticleFoursquare brings back mayorship, but this time on Swarm
Have you missed being the digital mayor of your office or your favorite coffeeshop or bookshop back in the good ole days of the original Foursquare? Well, now you can go back to being your competitive...
View ArticleSwarm update: leaderboard coins, “Here Now” feature
When Swarm brought back the mayorships feature to the app (which went away when Foursquare and Swarm became two separate apps), the compulsive location-checking mobile users were delighted. Now your...
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Google seems to be testing FourSquare integration into Google Now
There isn’t any word from either Google or FourSquare but some users have reported seeing their Google Now showing place recommendations from the former check-in and now recommendation app. The kicker...
View ArticleSwarm update lets you check your and your friends’ stats
If you have a short memory down the road but you’d like an app to remember all the places you’ve been to, Swarm is making it easy now for you to check out all your stats with the latest update. If...
View ArticleFoursquare City Guide now available for Android Wear 2.0 devices
Yes, people apparently still use Foursquare. It used to be really big back in the day, until the novelty of telling people where you are now eventually faded. It has now become more of a guide to where...
View ArticleAccuweather uses Foursquare’s SDK for more personalized information
Apps and services that use Location-based features have gotten a pretty bad rap lately because of security and privacy issues, to the point that the US government has created policies for their...
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