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Matt Galligan

Foursquare 8.0 - Learns what you like and leads you to places you love

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Darren J Smith
@dens FYI swarm could probably be split into 2 apps: One for checking in where you are now. One for telling people where you're going to be in the near future. 2 different use cases. :)
Dennis Crowley
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@darrenux Eh, we think of Swarm as "keep up and meet up w/ friends". I think it's pretty compact as it is. Sure, it needs a little love (speed, animation, game mechanics) but all that is on the roadmap. (the Swarm team ended up pitching in to help the Foursquare app get over the finish line, thus some things in Swarm didn't get done as fast as we wanted them to)
Roy Marmelstein
Will sure miss the check-in but this feels like the right direction for Foursquare. The expertise feature in particular seems like a really interesting idea to keep users motivated to leave tips (as a more active form of the old badges). Hope they manage to find the bigger audience they are after.
Nadia Yun
As long as I can still hold a Mayorship I'm golden. Not a fan of the logo refresh. Swarm seems like Foursquares kid brother, I haven't abandoned it yet but my iphone is running out space.
Ouriel Ohayon
i am personally not a big fan of the unbundling here. I feel it should be a tab rather than an app. we already have too many apps and i don't think there is a strong case of a check-in only app. it's also compelling to read the reviews left by angry users like me on both foursquare and swarm.
William Mougayar
@dens Are you working on user-business relationship features? For e.g. entice merchants/businesses to promote specials / offers that are targeted, and you take a cut of it.
Noah Weiss
@wmougayar we have over 1.9m businesses who've already claimed their locations, and offer them a set of tools ranging from posting specials, updates about what's happening at their store, stats, and promoting themselves in search results. We haven't done more extensive targeting work yet, but I'd expect that to come as our audience grows bigger and reaching a specific segment of it becomes important.
William Mougayar
@noah_weiss I think it's an unexploited revenue opportunity you might want to consider. 1.9 million biz's have millions of offers and specials they want to reach customers and prospects with. You're in the middle of that. Email me off line if you'd like wmougayar AT gmail .
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