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Not a Power User, but Fun None-the-Less On this Friday before the baseball wildcard games begin, I thought I would publish a fun post of sorts. I’m not a power-user of Foursquare – but I definitely do try to check-in to places of interest when I’m out-and-about. Last week – two years after my first check-in to the Troy Community Center on September 10, 2010 -- I finally surpassed 1,000 check-ins. Since that initial check-in from the … [Read more...]
A couple of weeks ago I – at a very high level – introduced you to Foursquare, a popular location-based social app available on mobile for iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. From an “end-user” perspective, there are a significant number of “gaming elements” that encourage check-ins. As a very quick recap, Foursquare is a popular location-based social app in which users "check-in" at venues (the gym, restaurants, … [Read more...]
It started off as an endeavor simply to electronically record the days that I went to the gym. Afterall "checking in" on Foursquare is a lot simpler and more convenient than recording it on paper and transferring the data to Excel. Then a strange thing happened. My competitive nature took over. First, I unlocked the "Gym Rat" badge. Then I became mayor of the Troy Community Center. Now I was having "fun" (relatively speaking, mind … [Read more...]