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Hello, world! City badges are coming your way!

UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback from our Turkish users! We’ve updated the Bosphorus badge imagery to Maiden’s Tower. We have a pretty unbelievable international community on foursquare, with millions of people checking in everywhere from Japan to Brazil to Sri Lanka. After we launched the Windy … Continue reading

Announcing the global hackathon winners!

Last week’s round-the-clock, round-the-world global hackathon saw more than 500 developers all over the globe produce a ton of incredible apps built on top of our API. You guys submitted over 90 entries for a chance to win one of … Continue reading

foursquare for Universities 2.0, coming this fall!

When we rolled out the foursquare for Universities program last year, we had no idea what an enormous success it would be. Since then, we’ve launched tons of new features and hit a milestone of 10 million users, with campuses … Continue reading

foursquare for Nokia S40: now in more countries and on more devices!

Way back in February, we worked with Nokia to build a full-featured foursquare for their Series 40 OS. Today, the 600 million S40 owners around the world will be happy to know that there’s a hugely improved version of foursquare … Continue reading

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An incredible global #4sqDay!

Last year, a few foursquare users surprised us by creating 4sqDay – a way for them to celebrate together. They set up a site to help organize events, and there were nearly 300 gatherings. Since then, we’ve grown quite a … Continue reading

The actual Mayor of New York declares 4/16 as foursquare day!

Fourteen cities have officially recognized this Saturday’s foursquare day (4/16), but this one is the most special for us – our amazing community of users has convinced our hometown Mayor to declare a foursquare holiday in New York City. Mayor … Continue reading

1UP: The importance of platforms, and how we’re extending ours

Lately, we’ve been sharing a lot of our long-term vision, and wanted to follow that up with thoughts about the foundation that underlies a lot of the location-based world. Where We Are foursquare has offered an API since really early … Continue reading

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It all started with a check-in: the vision for #4sq3 and beyond

Note: foursquare 3.0 for Android and iPhone are now live in their respective app stores. Also, this is a really long post, but we have a lot to say… if you want to just look at what foursquare 3.0 looks … Continue reading

Follow Friday for Tips

Nearly a year ago, when we launched a partnership with the History Channel, TechCrunch called it “real world pop-up video.” That was the whole idea behind tips – helping people explore the world around them. Now we have millions of … Continue reading

Introducing the foursquare Engineering Blog

Over the past two years, we’ve built out a system to handle millions of users, thousands of requests per second, and dozens of check-ins per second. We’ve also grown the team from two engineers to close to thirty. While doing … Continue reading

– Harry Heymann, foursquare engineering lead

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