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8 unusual facts about FourSquare


Dennis Crowley

Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.

Douglas H. Wheelock

He became the first person to "check in" from space October 22, using the mobile social networking application Foursquare.

Empire Avenue

Social networks supported by Empire Avenue currently include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Instagram, Wordpress hosted blogs and the player's own blog and RSS feeds.

Fitzrovia News

Like many hyperlocal media the Fitzrovia News makes extensive use of freely available digital media: blog software Wordpress and social media Twitter, Facebook; location-based social-networking Foursquare; and visual media Flickr and YouTube.

Joe Sorge

AJ Bombers was one of 30 small businesses taking part in the initial test of Foursquare, a social networking site for small businesses.

Spitalfields Junction

Spitalfields Junction is a popular entry on the location check-in site Foursquare.

Supermodel Me

In 2010, Supermodelme became the first television showout of Asia to ink a deal with popular location-based application Foursquare.

Wayne Jacobsen

Jacobsen began a full-time ministry in 1975 as an Associate Pastor at Valley Christian Center in Fresno, CA—a Foursquare church.


Dream Center

Pastor Matthew Barnett manages the Dream Center and pastors the Angelus Temple, which is a Foursquare Pentecostal church.

Gage Clarke

Clarke, a slightly overweight actor with a double chin, specialized in playing avuncular, rather timid characters, with one of his largest parts being frightened gambler "Foursquare Farley" in the Maverick episode "Greenbacks, Unlimited" opposite James Garner and John Dehner.

Gamification

In 2010, Starbucks gave custom Foursquare badges to people who checked in at multiple locations and offered discounts to people who became mayors of an individual store.

Medway, Massachusetts

Dennis Crowley, Creator of the iPod application "Foursquare" and a member of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2010.

Naveen Selvadurai

Naveen graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, and went to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun Microsystems before he started his mobile social-networking venture Foursquare, along with Dennis Crowley.

Pickwick Cricket Club

As a result of the upgrading of Kensington Oval for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, in 2009 Pickwick developed a new home ground—Foursquare Oval—in Saint Philip, on land donated by Sir David Seale, the owner of the Foursquare rum distillery.

WorcesterScene

Further integration with social media technologies, like Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare, has allowed WorcesterScene to more closely connect its visitors with the businesses they are searching for on the web site.


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