McDonald’s piggy backed on Foursquare Day and was successful apparently. They gave out $5 and $10 gift cards to checkin-ers.
RF-Chips make keep track of your awesomeness all over Vail. Think Foursquare but you don’t have to think about it.
Arcade Fire’s new video is done in HTML5 and is tightly integrated with Google Maps making for a unique customized video.
Where they at where they at?! A dead simple use of foursquare checkins to see how many are women and then providing a cheat sheet on where the most are.
A compilation of Minority Report style Digital Signage. Coming to a GAP near you probably sooner than later.
Street food vendors are taking advantage of mobile-social-location-based things like twitter and foursquare. Strap an iPhone to a hot dog cart and boom! High-tech hot dog location device and transmitter machine. Ze futur is now.
Foursquare promotion actually results in ROI?! Could it be?! Domino’s UK Social Media Initiatives Help Increase Profits by 29%!
Loving these Foursquare “enhancement” spinoffs! Avoidr helps you keep certain Foursquareers at a safe distance from you.
Not only has kin.com made an amazing series of ads + website but they are doing one of the coolest things with their social media campaign I have ever seen.
They have integrated a Find the Spot - Free Live Shows. Passion Pit and others play on May 14th & 15th at a random spot in NYC; to be announced a few hours before the show via their facebook page. Tiz be stellar campaign, yes, i like, everything.
Hmm, using Foursquare for an object instead of a person… touche Jimmy Choo, touche.
Gowalla partners with the Nets for a ticket scavenger hunt. First 500 to find’em get’em. “The iconic tickets will be scattered at sports bars, pubs, sporting goods stores and other venues around New Jersey and New York City where you might go to watch a basketball game this weekend.” - Gowalla
Google has started using them and now it seems Facebook is starting to test them out. They’re like barcodes that store information too. You could say, dynamically pull someone’s status updates from their T-Shirt. Ok, well, there are some better examples of uses in the linked article but just know they’re starting to show up in a lot more places.
