{"id":70,"date":"2010-05-25T04:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T04:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-03-19T04:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:49:48","slug":"what-is-foursquare-and-should-i-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/05\/what-is-foursquare-and-should-i-care\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Foursquare, and should I care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Foursquare?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Primarily a &#8220;location-based social networking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foursquare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">service<\/a>&#8221; for       smartphones and mobile users. Users &#8220;check in&#8221; to places they&#8217;re       at so that their friends know where they are. The most frequent visitor       of a place (bar, restaurant, venue) can become the &#8220;mayor&#8221;, and       users can also earn badges for completing special tasks.<\/p>\n<p><strong> The point          of all this? <\/strong>The service posits that the world will <em>really <\/em>care          about knowing the most popular, &#8220;hottest&#8221; places to be <em>right          now<\/em>. Companies of course will hope their venue is just such          a place and can  advertise to the hordes.<\/p>\n<p>One new service aggregates a group of services: <a href=\"http:\/\/socialgreat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/socialgreat.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It gives a gestalt view from: Foursquare, Twitter, Brightkite, and          graffitiGeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Foursquare? Primarily a &#8220;location-based social networking service&#8221; for smartphones and mobile users. Users &#8220;check in&#8221; to places they&#8217;re at so that their friends know where they are. The most frequent visitor of a place (bar, restaurant, venue) can become the &#8220;mayor&#8221;, and users can also earn badges for completing special tasks. The point &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/05\/what-is-foursquare-and-should-i-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Foursquare, and should I care?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}