I love what Foursquare’s doing here. Using tech to encourage civic engagement? Check. Attractive data visualizations? Check. Next step–using Foursquare data to develop predictions more robust than exit polls! Check-in and include #ivoted in your shout out to get your limited edition iVOTED badge and find out more info at elections.foursquare.com. (Not a huge fan [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Foursquare'
Foursquare Visualizations, Redux
August 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
Towards the end of July, I wrote a post about how you can visualize Foursquare checkins and also about my hope for developers to continue building tools that can use /display Foursquare’s user-generated content more effectively. This weekend, the folks from Movity.com did just that, building a little application called Weeplaces. You can visualize your [...]
Tags:Foursquare·LBS·location-based service·Movity·visualization·Weeplaces
Critical Mass and New York City
August 5th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, tech
Over the past few days, I’ve been at home in Alabama, which as you may imagine, is quite different from New York City. Other than the grossly uncomfortable heat index (100+ every day) and noticeably shorter skyscrapers here, I’ve also noticed that some of the mobile tools that I used in New York are no [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Giving Pledge·Gowalla·New York·nextNY·Sweet Home Alabama·tech·VC·venture capital
Your Foursquare Check-ins… on Google Maps!
July 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
Today, Fred Wilson wrote a short but fascinating blog post on visual representation of Foursquare check-ins via Google Maps, and the potential uses for this user-generated contend. Below are my last ~150 check-ins in New York City. Want to see your own map? Foursquare has a page devoted to private feeds of your check-ins, available [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Fred Wilson·Google Maps·New York City·user-generated content
Apps You Should Use in 2010!
January 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
…that is, if you don’t already! Here are some of the ones I use. Some are new, and some not-so-new, but I’ve found all of them to be very useful. Dropbox is great. I started using Dropbox during my second semester senior year primarily so I had a place to store large attachments instead of [...]
Tags:digital media·Dropbox·Foursquare·Gilt·Gilt Groupe·internet·Tokbox
