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That's the basis of Foursquare, the gorilla in a new wave of location-based social-networking sites. While sites like Facebook and Twitter are interested in what you're doing, Foursquare is more interested in where you're doing it - and using different ways to reward you for checking...
Foursquare—the first location-based social networking tool to be implemented at Harvard—provides information about venues in cities around the world. Currently, 23 venues are featured on Harvard’s foursquare site, including the John Harvard statue and Mr. Bartley’s Burger...
Foursquare’s mobile application—which is available for download for several smartphones, including the iPhone—incorporates an interactive video game aspect. Application users earn points by visiting different locations featured on foursquare. When a user arrives at a venue, the application’s...
The mobile application also includes push notifications, which pings tips to users about locations in their immediate area, and a friend finder, which includes logs of the user’s friends that have checked into a certain location in the past three hours.
But a handful of theorists already had a better explanation at hand. The giant planets could have formed in a much more sensible location, like Jupiter did, and then migrated inward, establishing a stable orbit there. It all made sense, except for one tiny problem: this same model also suggested...