Foursquare

introduction foursquare is a location-based social networking website based on hardware for mobile devices. The service is available to users with GPSenabled mobile devices such as smartphones. It makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. By checking in via a smartphone app or SMS, users share their location with friends while collecting points and virtual badges. Foursquare guides real-world experiences by allowing users to bookmark information about venues that they want to visit and surfacing relevant suggestions about nearby venues. Merchants and brands leverage the foursquare platform by utilizing a wide set of tools to obtain, engage, and retain customers and audiences. Devices: foursquare currently has iPhone, Symbian, Android, webOS, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry applications.[23] A Maemo application is in early development stage and is not featured on the foursquare website.[24] Users with Symbian phones and Pocket PCs (Windows Mobile touchscreen) can also use foursquare via Waze, which is also available for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry.[25] Also, there's another application for Symbian users named "Sym4Square" is similar to the application for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone.[26] Users may also use their mobile browsers to access foursquare mobile, but feature phone users must search for venues manually instead of using GPS that PDA applications can use. Working and features: foursquare allows registered users to connect with friends and update their location. Points are awarded for "checking in" at venues. Users can choose to have their check-ins posted on their accounts on Twitter, Facebook, or both. Users can also earn badges by checking in at locations with certain tags, for check-in frequency, or for other patterns such as time of check-in.[8] Users can create a "To Do" list for their private use and add "Tips" to venues that other users can read, which serve as suggestions for great things to do, see or eat at the location.[9]

Mayorship
If a user has checked-in to a venue on more days (meaning only one check-in per day qualifies for calculating mayorship) than anyone else in the past 60 days, the check-ins are valid under foursquare's time and distance protocols, and they have a profile photo, they will be crowned "Mayor" of that venue, until someone else earns the title by checking in more times than the previous mayor

Badges
Badges are earned by checking into various venues. Some badges can only be earned in a specific city. when a user gains a badge, he or she has the same badges across all cities. Once a badge is earned by a player, it will remain on that user's profile indefinitely.

Superuser status
The service provides three levels of "Superuser status" (which is not to be confused with the "Super User" badge). Superuser status is conferred on users who have been selected by Foursquare staff for their helpful contributions to the community.[16]

All superusers can review a queue of requested changes for a single city, and can select a new city at will.

Superuser level 1 can edit venue info (address, cross street, phone, Twitter names, map pin location), mark venues as closed, and flag duplicate venues.

Superuser level 2 can additionally merge duplicate venue listings, adjust the latitude and longitude of a venue, remove tags, add a web address, and add categories.

Superuser level 3 adds the ability to create and remove venue aliases, as well as access a "global queue" of pending requests needing superuser attention.

Foursquare Day
Foursquare Day (4sqDay) is a global event launched in 2010 in Tampa, FL.[27] The event is held every April 16th (April being the 4th month and the 16th being equal to four squared).