According to Techcrunch, foursquare will be adding 14 new European cities today, as stated by foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley. These cities will be Helsinki, San Antonio, Madrid, Manchester, Paris, Prague, Rome and Stockholm and of course continuing with the already available London and Amsterdam.
For those (hopefully not so many) that still haven’t heard of foursquare, it is a location-based social network game. What you do is “check-in” to the place you are/ going to, along with a brief message and recommendation on the place. Then it pings your friends, letting them know your where you are, as well as lets you know where they are – provided they are using foursquare too and are not hiding from you. What makes foursquare cool is that you can create and share lists of your top places and places you’ve always wanted to go, so guess what, next time a friend is going there and wants to do something nice for you or wants to throw you a surprise party, he/she knows just the place. For the fun-loving competitor friend (or not) in all of us, foursquare has you collecting points for “checking-in” and even becoming a mayor if you have the top score. Be warned however as you can get dethroned by a higher score holder.
For more details on how it works you can read Pocket-lint’s ‘What is Foursquare?‘ or get it straight from the horse’s mouth by clicking here.
For those wondering why ‘foursquare’ and why the boy with the ball on the logo, four square is a real life ball game played with 4 players, 4 numbered squares and a ball of course. The objective of the game is to eliminate other players of higher ranks, advance to the highest ranking square and remain there for as long as possible. (Source: Wikipedia) See the connection now? Huh? Huh?
That’s excellent news foursquare, keep it up.
And who knows, maybe one day foursquare will be available for Nicosia, Cyprus too… well, at least one can dream right?
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