FOURSQUARE

www.foursquare.com

Definition
Foursquare is a web site and application of mobile phone that allows users to interact with their peers and directly check-in their new location. Foursquare only be used on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre and other mobile phone that offers mobile web applications. Check-in at the foursquare foursquare is when users tell where he is. Check-in can be done anywhere, at restaurants, museums, city parks, or at the university. At the moment you check in you will be given a point. Points can also be obtained by adding a new location that does not exist in the Foursquare website. Foursquare Users also can check in their new location as well as provide comments on the site. Foursquare worked together with Facebook and Twitter, so if the user check-in it will be automatically found on Facebook and Twitter accounts. In the iPhone version 1.3, users can find out Foursquare check in from their friends who are known by the name "Ping". Users can also get a number of badges that can be interpreted as a rank to check in on the places that are recommended from the site or visit a location with high intensity. Major is a rank that will be provided by this web site if you have checked in at one location with a high intensity. And if other users have to beat your intensity in check in at that location then he would be crowned as a new Major. Many deals are available if you are a mayor of a location. In this site, users can also create a list of things to be done (to do list) for personal interest and also give tips on the site so that other users can read it. These tips may be a suggestion about what should be done, seen, or eaten at that location. Off the Grid check-in is a check in a user's in secret because the user does not want their location known by other users.


History About Foursquare

Foursquare was created in 2009 with limited availability, which is only for 100 urban areas. (Amsterdam, Atlanta, Austin, Texas, Boston, Chicago, Dallas / Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Helsinki, Houston, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis / Saint Paul, New York City, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix , Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, DC, Seoul and Bombay). And in January of 2010, this website can be accessed without restrictions so that the growing area to 500,000 users. On March 21, 2010 which was named the Foursquare birthday, there have been more than 500,000 users, more than 1,000,000 badges that have been given, more than 1.4 million places in 1200 including special offers, and there have been more than 15.5 million check-ins

Points

Points can be obtained through the check-in on this website. Users can get points when you first check-ins or add a new place on the web site Foursquare. Foursquare also displays a list on its website so that we can see who the users of this site is already getting the highest points in a "Leaderboard". "Leaderboard" This program will be repeated every Sunday night at 12.00.

Giving Points:
+5 points for a first time user to do check-ins
+5 points when users add a new location that does not exist on the web site
+1 points when users check-in

In December 2009, points are donated to charity

Badge

Badges is the reward or prize given to the user if he did check in on the places of interest. Badges usually have ties to the location of the tag. Users do tag to describe a place or location on this web site. Staff of the Foursquare very careful in giving information on how to unlock badges. There are several kinds of badges that can be used for multiple purposes. Other badges indicate a town, location, event, or date

Why do we become a jumper?
1. Badge can only get in the city in that very few
2. Badge that can only be unlocked in the country we've unlocked all
3. Badge is funny and makes us unique spirit to be collected
4. Foursquare just a game, game-based social networking this .. so if we think only a mystery how to unlock the badge badge which is issued by the foursquare

"We Jump, We Get The Badges, and We Love That"
"We Jump together, so we must get the badge together"
"You Get The Mayor, We Get The Badges"

How To Be a Jumper

Before the jumper on first follow all the brand that is here and there because every badge that would have to follow brandnya unlocked first. After that follow the steps below
1. log out first 4sq imaginable in applications bw / ipad / iphone etc.
2. open m.foursquare.com or foursquare.com / mobile (can be from a laptop / browser hp)
3. change location, for example to new york. Fill in the column was new york.
4. wait 13-20 hours (not at checkin kmn2 first)
5. kalo udah deh 13-20 hours later you checkin continue hunting deh badgenya

suggestion jump to New York, NY first. 80% of the badge is there.