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Native app integration like never before: The Foursquare for BlackBerry 10 SDK
Yesterday, BlackBerry announced their first BB10 devices. We here on the BlackBerry team at Foursquare are really excited about the launch and wanted to give our awesome third party developers something to help them get the most out of Foursquare … Continue reading →
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The Opportunity Gap: learn about the public schools in your neighborhood with @ProPublica and Foursquare
As our recent hackathon showed, there are tons of ways that developers can use Foursquare to power amazing apps – from ones that shame you into going to the gym, to others that alert you to restaurants with health code violations. … Continue reading →
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A Foursquare Hackathon for the new year – sign up and build the next amazing hack!
And take two! Although Sandy foiled our hackathon plans in November, we’re back and ready to hack it up with the best and brightest. On January 5, we’re inviting developers and designers in NYC, SF, and everywhere around the world … Continue reading →
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MongoDB at Foursquare: From the the cloud to bare metal
We’ve been running Mongo as our main storage engine for almost 3 years. For most of that time the Mongo servers and all the rest of our infrastructure were hosted on Amazon’s EC2. We recently migrated the Mongo servers onto our own … Continue reading →
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Even more ways to personalize Foursquare – check out the latest additions to our app gallery
Want to know if there’s a teaser after the movie credits, or the healthiest dish to order at a restaurant? There are a bunch of apps you can connect to your Foursquare account to help you make the most of … Continue reading →
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Open-sourcing our dashboard for Apache Oozie
At Foursquare, we use Apache Oozie to manage the scheduling and control of our offline data processing workflows. We’ve had great success with the project, and we run upwards of 1000 Oozie workflows per day. Despite the quality of Oozie’s … Continue reading →
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Big Data and the Big Apple: Understanding New York City using Millions of Check-ins
Last Friday, I spoke at DataGotham about how foursquare data can provide an unprecedented view into the behavior of cities. In this talk, I focus on what we can learn about New York City from aggregating the check-ins of millions … Continue reading →
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Connect all the apps! Dig into our new connected apps platform at our 2012 hackathon
You guys! The foursquare hackathon is back! And this year, we’re inviting you to hack foursquare itself. Our all-new Connected Apps platform enables you to wire new functionality directly into the core foursquare experience and make your app discoverable to the … Continue reading →
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Developers, grow your numbers! Connected app success stories from our pilot partners
We’ve seen some amazing new apps built since we released the developer preview of our new connected apps framework two months ago. We’re continuing to make improvements, and we can’t wait for the official launch of our App Gallery to our entire community in the … Continue reading →
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Checking in at the movies? Here’s how to never miss an after-the-credits teaser again.
The latest addition to the connected apps gallery is a perfect example of how a little bit of information at the right time can make all the difference. Now when you check in to a movie on foursquare, Mantas Vidutis’s … Continue reading →
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