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Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%
March 16, 2010 – 11:13 am | 711 Comments
Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%

As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …

SXSWi Party: Skip Intro
March 9, 2010 – 6:57 pm | 749 Comments

At South-by-Southwest on Monday March 15th? Join a list of great folks at the Skip Intro party at 8pm at the Cedar St. Courtyard. It is hosted by Brizzly (Polaris portfolio company), Foursquare and Katalyst. …

Checking-In: The Geo-coded Status Update
February 6, 2010 – 12:37 pm | 216 Comments
Checking-In: The Geo-coded Status Update

Two excellent posts on the current status of geo-location companies by Robert Scoble and Hunter Walk (both bloggers are great and their blogs are must reads). Scoble argues that industry-first Foursquare is being squeezed by …

Twitter Local Trends: Local Search is About to Change
January 26, 2010 – 7:16 pm | 356 Comments
Twitter Local Trends: Local Search is About to Change

I might be in the minority here, but I consider Twitter’s launch of Local Trends Twitter’s most significant product advancement since… launch? It will no doubt be overshadowed by tomorrow’s Apple announcement – but local …

MyTown Social Gaming Strategy
January 24, 2010 – 12:33 pm | 276 Comments
MyTown Social Gaming Strategy

MyTown is best described as Zynga meets Foursquare. Take the best aspects of social gaming (Zynga) and combine them with location based networking (Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp) and you have MyTown: a game that awards points …

The Role of Ego, Competition, Badges & Statistics on the Web
November 8, 2009 – 10:38 am | 251 Comments
The Role of Ego, Competition, Badges & Statistics on the Web

Over the last three nights and dinners, the same debate has arose among three separate groups of friends: the role of competition within the the web and user behaviors.
My strong feeling is that, other …

Social Reputation on Twitter (Foursquare Screenshot)
August 12, 2009 – 5:12 am | 323 Comments
Social Reputation on Twitter (Foursquare Screenshot)

A great screenshot from Twitter (via Tweetdeck’s iPhone app) that shows the virality of Foursquare. I’ve spoken a lot about the power of conversation in the real-time web – but this is notable because it …