Foursquare, find your friends and unlock your city

Foursquare on your phone gives you & your friends new ways of exploring your city. Earn points & unlock badges for discovering new things. Foursquare is a location-based social networking website, software for mobile devices, and a game. Users "check-in" at venues using text messaging or a device specific application. They are then awarded points and sometimes "badges."

Check in

People use foursquare to "check-in", which is a way of telling us your whereabouts. When you check-in someplace, we'll tell your friends where they can find you and recommend places to go & things to do nearby. People check-in at all kind of places - cafes, bars, restaurants, parks, homes, offices.

You'll find that as your friends use foursquare to check-in, you'll start learning more about the places they frequent. Not only is it a great way to meet up with nearby friends, but you'll also start to learn about their favorite spots and the new places they discover.

Share experiences

As you check-in around the city, you'll start finding tips that other users have left behind. After checking-in at a restaurant, it's not uncommon to unlock a tip suggesting the best thing on the menu. Checking-in at a bar will often offer advice on what your next stop should be. Every tip you create is discoverable by other users just by checking-in.

Earn points and unlock badges

Every foursquare checkin earns you points. Find a new place in your neighborhood? +5 points. Making multiple stops in a night? +2 points. Dragging friends along with you? +1.

And as you start checking-in to more interesting places with different people, you'll start unlocking badges. There are badges for discovering new places and for traveling to far away places. Spending too much time singing karaoke or been hitting the gym consistently? Yes, there are badges for those too :)

Become mayor and unlock freebies

We all have our local hangouts and foursquare keeps tabs on who's the most loyal of all the regulars. If you've been to a place more than anyone else, you'll become "the mayor"... until someone else comes along and steals your title.

It may sound a little silly until you see the list of places that are offering freebies to our mayors - free coffees, free ice-cream, free hotel stays - it pays to be a foursquare loyalist and check-in whenever you go!

Systems

iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm and other devices can use the web-app

Internet

http://foursquare.com/

Download

Foursquare iPhone

Foursquare Blackberry

Foursquare Android

Foursquare Palm

Foursquare other devices (web-app)

Examples

iPhone