Now you can play Foursquare anywhere

[Cy-Kill]

Foursquare seems pretty cool, if I had the right type of mobile phone I'd try playing it:

Attention, suburbanites: You, too, can be the mayor of your local Home Depot.

That's because New York-based mobile location-sharing service Foursquare has made a subtle but big improvement. It's no longer restricted to a list of a few dozen cities in North America and Europe, which means that people anywhere in the world can use their mobile phones to "check in" through the service. (Foursquare currently has applications for the iPhone, Palm Pre, and Google Android, as well as a BlackBerry app in development and a mobile Web site.) The new feature is considered to currently be in a soft-launch phase; in new locations, Foursquare will have to rely on users to add venues to build the directory of local spots themselves.

This is a big deal for Foursquare as it continues to compete with Gowalla, an Austin, Texas-based app with a slicker design, a bigger treasure chest of venture capital, and the ability to "check in" anywhere in the world. Both services also feature a game-like interface, with Gowalla stashing virtual items that you can "pick up" when you check into places, and Foursquare encouraging members to earn "badges" based on habits and become the "mayor" of venues where you've checked in more often than any other users.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10425543-36.html

[ck2k01]

The title of this app is a major letdown: I thought this would be a representation of actual foursquare.

Too bad, I was pretty incredible at foursquare and tetherball back in 2nd grade.

[SMELTN]

oh snap I like ck2k01 thought this was the game foursquare and was going to be all in it.