Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.
I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.
I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
The best version of Foursquare is the one you don't think about using.
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page.
We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.
One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
I definitely stayed away from Twitter. I didn't want to be geotagged or anything.
