Great, now that I can know what places are crowded I can find somewhere else to go :)

not a bad plan if you’re in sxsw for sure.

Sweet, at some point we’ll need a single “checkin” pusher out to these services. Doubt that the leaders would surrender to a competitor and base their data directly off someone else’s.

In any case, look forward to integrating Foursquare checkins with Pairwise. We use checkin data to facilitate business networking and uncover hidden connections between you and those around you (at conferences, etc.) http://pairwise.mobi

So is Foursquare abandoning the “dude bowling” as part of their logo?

Wow, that’s great-
Let’s look what AT&T had to do to bring it’s network up to snuff so that people could check in on Foursquare, GoWalla and the like-

ATT investment for this venue and 15,000 techies?

Per MG’s post on Techcrunch 3/11- http://tcrn.ch/cd5aFz

-8 cell sites- Around the convention center alone.
-50 antenna nodes to cover the whole venue.
-Moving from one radio network carrier to three.
-Expanded the capacity of the so-called “high quality” 850 MHz spectrum to get through walls.
-HSPA 7.2 software installed at all of the 3G cell towers – because the software works.
-AT&T has brought in two Cells on Wheels called “COWS”
Also a third rooftop temporary cell site brought to alleviate network strain.

Hmmm- this is trying to keep face so that we all keep buying Smart Phones that will need the above support for 15,000 people alone on the network at one event? I think we all have a rude surprise coming as Smart Phones increase over 35% over last year. This does not take into account Kindles and iPad’s and alike.

What was the quote about the total bandwidth taken up by Smartphones? It is something like the 80-20 rule – now we add all the pads and readers to this mix? How much capacity will be left to make a simple phone call? :)

I remember when we used to hit all the busy signals in the late 80′s- can anyone say repeat?

I wonder how many checkins there would be if Foursquare actually verified the user’s real location. I suspect about 10%. Checkins are the new fudged pageview.

Question. When will users’ Foursquare history be made public? It would be cool to import it as a widget on blogs.

I am sure http://www.simplegeo.com has it in the works. They put up the aggregation site for this event that tracks most vendors.

Quite remarkable job they did and amazing to watch the page populate.

http://austin.vicarious.ly/

Great, then people could see how boring I really am.

Marketing Bonanza to sell back to the locations and venues – now if you marry that to ability to market to the person who checked in??

Wow. surprised MG found time to throw a post up while in Austin. It’s crazy there right now.

no one gives a flying f***!

the data being reported by techcrunch is clearly hyper inflated. if you assume that all of the sxsw attendees are using foursquare, they’d be checking in 20 times per day. that’s not feasible, so perhaps half at best. 40 times per day? what is the value? to be the ridiculous “mayor” of a place? this is the biggest over-hyped story, ever.

http://bit.ly/9DsOXk

Updated chart : 180,060 ultra filtered tweets : @foursquare vs @gowalla vs @yelp – http://bit.ly/bjAfRZ

Currently this one is starting to dominate the way how you discover geo-targets in USA (using social media and game) Just keep on updating it: http://bit.ly/foursquare-detailed-review

this is a lie

its called a firehose when theres more than 4 users

So, Social Great found the marble in the oatmeal?

Time to get real with all of this ‘OMG! Location is the new Rock’n'Roll’.

If you were a shop or store owner in a particular location, would you get one of your staff to spend the whole day doing -

(a) Checking Foursquare, Gowalla, etc to try and offer promotional services to the few 100′s that may come into your area – or
(b) Stand outside your shop or store with leaflets offering special discounts to all of the 1000′s of people that walk up and down every hour.

(a) would only be a viable option when Facebook gets in on the scene.

UHF! Classic!

No, but what you _could_ do is reward those customers that are returning to your shop for the Nth time…
That wouldn’t require much data mining.

Of course this shouldn’t replace in-store marketing activities, but it may very well be an important part of your struggle to increase the loyalty of your customers.

//Andreas

the evolution of big brother. not my bag sorry

Not usually an MG fan but the picture used for this article is unbelievably solid. Well played sir!

Bravo for the Stanley Spadowski/UHF pic

Good now we know where are so much crowd.then i think different.

Nice picture haha

I’m happy for four²

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cool…….this is really cool

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