Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere

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Mar 9, 2010

With the SXSW conference approaching in Austin, we are seeing a lot of geo-location launching this year. A lot of startups are taking advantage of Foursquare’s APIs in particular to get their geo apps quickly out of the gate.

Take FourWhere. It is a pretty basic mashup of Foursquare comments and venues overlayed on Google Maps. You can search by city and neighborhood, and see all the recent tips from people who have checked into various nearby restaurants, bars, stores, and offices. The site forces you to right-click to see comments or venues instead of just having a menu in the side, but it does the job.

I’m kind of surprised Foursquare doesn’t offer the exact same functionality, but that’s what APIs are for. Sometimes startups need other startups to show them what they should be doing.

FourWhere was created a demo app for SXSW by social media analytics firm Sysomos. It plans to add more data from services like Yelp, Twitter, and Gowalla in the future, which brings up the issue of whether it picked the best name.

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Brian D

Leaving things out for other start ups…

Increases the amount of people exposed to $ risk and increases the chance of new rounds. (?)
Hunter Gillane

yourwaller
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=662765241 Matthew Paul

My latest geo app is an AR visualization for iPhone of nearby Bump activity, Foursquare, Gowalla checkins:

BumpRADAR – Look who’s bumpin’
http://bit.ly/BumpRADAR

Discover which events, parties & venues are bumpin’ near you by leveraging RADAR – Realtime Activity Discovery via Augmented Reality

By visualizing nearby activity you’ll gain relevant social context about what’s going on around you – should be perfect for SXSW :)

Cheers,
mattpaul
http://www.jerusalem.com Harry

Unfortunately there is not any information on Israel. In fact, the Israel map is completely empty, no cities are marked.
http://www.headstartup.com David Hunegnaw

Brilliant.
ojopj

noone cares about foursquare.
http://www.xhamster.gen.tr xhamster

google maps a lot of really great job with my he would make it much simpler thanks google
Balaji

tweets are seen on bing maps already
http://www.pocketinfo.net Robert L

2010 will see the geo landscape mature. It will then be up to the users to decide which mapping platform to use for the best experience.
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Brian D

And then a few people get sent to goal for rape with the judge mentioning 4square as the means to which the victims were tracked… bussineses pull out…investers bail and app goes byebye.

Sure there are other geo apps… but none have taken off yet… first one to truely boom will be the first one to completely die.

/prediction.
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Brian D

Seems TC likes to delete any posts pointing out how these apps can be used to track people and could result in people getting hurt.

SO remember people… Don;t mention how dangerous they can be in the wrong hands.

oh wait… TC posted about that robmyhouse thingy…

So I guess posting about how the app would be affected if somebody was raped and the judge mentions should be ok.
Brian D

hmm, nm. post somehow only decided to show up after I reposted… like 30 mins later.

but while im hear… has TC cleaned up all the exposed email addresses in the older postings ?

You know.. the ones that would be covered by a privacy policy… if one existed.

and what’s with that ? no privacy policy … weird.
Frustrated European Entrepreneur

I’m seriously impressed (and scared) about the “FourCrunch” coverage of these days.

For what I say, the only way to be covered by TechCrunch is having something related to FourSquare.

Go on people, there are out more interesting startup that allow you to do more… Are you so impressed about a Google maps mashup? I know dozen of Foursquare competitors which already have maps, personal history and all the missing features you are asking for.
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Paul

That’s truly a terrible google maps mashup

It requires to run a Java applet, clicking one info bubble does not close other info bubbles, it only shows about a dozen points when right-clicking a point to see nearby venues, why the right-click?!, the venues icon is generic and doesn’t show any information on the number of check-ins, etc. etc.

Really crappy.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/ Andrew Mager

I own the domain foursqwhere.com :)
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@Harry Try this on your phone:

Orca at Tel Aviv
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Google Maps on mobile are fine.
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Great, reat way for businesses to gauge FourSquare usage in their area, I love this
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That’s not infringing?

Cool idea though.
bobby johnson

don’t install java applet to your browser ?
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reena

Foursquare allows registered users to connect with friends and update their location. Points are awarded on weekends and non-business hours for “checking in” at venues. Users can choose to have their Twitter and/or their Facebook accounts updated when they check in

Currently this one is starting to dominate the way how you discover geo-targets in USA (using social media and game) ..More details: http://bit.ly/foursquare-detailed-review
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LEAKED SXSW Four Square Badges
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Ilan Ben Menachem

Seems TC likes to delete any posts pointing out how these apps can be used to track people and could result in people getting hurt.
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