I’ve been playing foursquare for about a year now, and one of my primary reasons has always been to visualize my movement through the world.
Weeplaces provides the coolest foursquare checkin visualization I’ve seen so far.
HOW TO: Visualize All Your Foursquare Check-ins
Each city builds with traveling lines while time progresses across the bottom axis, so you get time-lapsed playback of your checkins around that city.
It’s really cool, especially if you travel, e.g. the playback of my checkins in San Francisco shows my movements around the city for various conferences including OpenWorld 2009, Chirp, and Google IO.
While we’re chatting about foursquare, another reason I’ve played is loyalty programs, which are beginning to take hold. The vision I have is an integrated loyalty program and foursquare checkin app, owned by foursquare, that will allow me to get rewards for my business.
I really wish foursquare would buy CardStar or a similar mobile app for scanning and storing all that loyalty card data I carry in my wallet. Update: I meant to dig up the post where I first heard this idea, but I got distracted and spaced. Sorry if you thought it was mine, but it’s not. It’s Scoble’s. See here. I do sometimes have original ideas, just not this time.
Anyway, geo location services are hot. Do you care?
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Hi Alex,
Interesting idea about your need for geo service to partner with a mobile app for your loyalty cards. Solid idea for sure.
I work with Weeplaces, thank you for sharing this article with your readers. Also, we have added some new features of late, including one that allows you to compare your movement with your friends on the same map.
Check it out and send us your thoughts! Feedback is always welcome.
Cheers,
Andrew@weeplaces.com
Ack. You reminded me that I’d forgotten to finish digging up where I’d heard that idea originally. Had it on my mind, got distracted, came back and finished the post without attribution.
Anyway, it’s Scoble’s idea: http://scobleizer.com/2010/06/12/foursquares-ye…
And a damn good one too. Sorry about the confusion.
I love what you guys have done, although I wish it weren’t Flash. Solid work, I’ll keep an eye on what you’re doing. Thanks.
Keep Posting about Android .
Already linked to my Blog
http://neilghosh.com/2010/08/21/beginning-android/
Great, thanks for the link love. As with iPhone, the only reason I’ll stop posting is if I change phones again 🙂 That’s unlikely to happen, but you never know when someone’s going to give you a free phone.