Category Archives: Engineering
Announcing the round-the-clock, round-the-world foursquare hackathon!
Less than a year ago, we hosted our first-ever hackathon, where over 150 developers built projects on top of the foursquare API. We were overwhelmed by the amazing resulting projects. In the months that followed, our developer community exploded, growing to over 10,000 people, … Continue reading
API highlight: check-ins for the common good
There are lots of amazing things that can happen when you check in… but not many things bring more joy to us than when check-ins serve as a tool for the common good. We’ve been thrilled to see a recent batch of services that … Continue reading
Our API and the foursquare developer community: from birth to 10,000 developers
Our API has been core to foursquare since the day we launched in March 2009, starting with the iPhone client. At the time, it was just something to make building foursquare easier, and we were still dreaming of one day … Continue reading
API highlight: uncover the hidden connections around you with sonar.me
Have you ever checked in somewhere, seen a few other people checked in, and wondered how you might be connected to them? Sonar, a new iPhone app, does that for you. It layers Facebook and Twitter connections atop your foursquare … Continue reading
We highly Recommend these new API features
A few months ago, we launched foursquare 3.0. As the dust settled around that launch, we got to work making sure each of the new features was API-ready, and today, they’re finally open for the world to use. Say hi … Continue reading
API highlight: check in and save yourself from a stomach ache
People check into restaurants all the time, some with less than stellar cleanliness records. That’s why Max Stoller created DontEat.at, a service which merges health code records with the foursquare API to warn people – via text message – when … Continue reading
API highlight: A Special for our four-legged friends
We created our API so that developers could layer their creativity atop foursquare. And every week, we see tons of awesome apps and integrations coming from people around the world. So, we decided to start sharing some of our favorites … Continue reading
APIv2. You’re going to like the way it looks. I guarantee it.
Good news, developers: version 2 of the foursquare API is now ready for you to play with. We’ve been working on this for almost a year, and, while it’s still in beta, it’s looking awesome. Trusted testers have been using … Continue reading
We’re heading west!
In the past year, we had a major growth spurt: from about 100,000 to over 4.5 million users; from a single phone platform to six; from 50-person foursquare flashmobs to 1,000 person epic swarms; and we now have thousands of … Continue reading