Aaron Parecki

#foursquare

How to export your complete Foursquare checkin history

Today I finished up a tool that you can use to export your complete history from Foursquare and publish the checkins to your website!
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Sat, Jul 3, 2021 11:14am -07:00 #foursquare #swarm #micropub #ownyourswarm #checkins #ownyourdata #indieweb
Finding the Perfect 10: How We Developed the Foursquare Venue Rating System (medium.com)

Sun, Feb 9, 2020 10:31am -08:00 #foursquare #review
Syndicating My Tips to Foursquare

I realized I have been avoiding leaving tips in Foursquare because I didn't have a good way to post them from my website. So today I added the ability to syndicate my posts as Foursquare tips.
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Sun, Oct 6, 2019 4:16pm -07:00 #indiewebcamp #p3k #foursquare #indieweb #ownyourdata
Foursquare Checks Back In With A $33M Series F (news.crunchbase.com)

Mon, Oct 8, 2018 12:01pm -07:00 #vc #foursquare #swarm
Day 93: Polling for Photos in OwnYourSwarm #100DaysOfIndieWeb

An interesting feature of the Swarm app is how it handles photos uploaded to checkins. If you check in and attach a photo, the checkin is actually created before the photo is uploaded. If you're on a spotty Internet connection, you'll see this because your checkin will exist and you'll get points for it, but there won't be a photo yet. The app will then continue to upload the photo separately, retrying if it fails. This is actually a really great app design on the part of Foursquare, but does lead to some tricks with the API.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 11:51am -07:00 #100daysofindieweb #micropub #ownyourswarm #foursquare #swarm
Day 89: OwnYourSwarm #100DaysOfIndieWeb

Now that I can post checkins on my website, the next step is to automatically copy my checkins from Swarm! I still like the experience of Swarm, and I still get value out of their analysis of my checkins, so I don't see myself leaving Swarm anytime soon. This way, I get the best of both worlds.
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Sun, Mar 19, 2017 4:07pm -07:00 #100daysofindieweb #checkins #swarm #foursquare #ownyourswarm
Brainstorming "verified" IndieWeb checkins

Checkins can easily be faked. The Foursquare app does a reasonable job of preventing fake (and accidental fake) checkins, but it's still possible. If checkins weren't posted on Foursquare, but instead were posted on each person's own website, the possibility of fake checkins is much greater. What would it look like to have a way for a venue to know (and republish) checkins that it knows were real?
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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 6:31pm -07:00 #checkins #indieweb #foursquare
Well that was a lucrative 8000th checkin! #foursquare #gamification

Nürnberg, Bayern, DEU

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Sat, Apr 16, 2016 8:41pm +02:00 #foursquare #gamification
How does it know??? #foursquare

Portland, Oregon

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Tue, Mar 8, 2016 4:59pm -07:00 #foursquare
So this is working now! A clock which moves its hands to show what category of venue I've last checked in at. Next step is to add more hands for my friends who still check in all the time on Swarm! #weasleyclock #harrypotter #swarm #foursquare

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Mon, Jan 4, 2016 7:56pm -08:00 #swarm #foursquare #weasleyclock #harrypotter
@foursquareapi Your API examples need updating with the version parameter! This example doesn't work anymore: https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/auth#requests

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Feb 1, 2015 8:18pm -08:00 #foursquare
Swarm: First Impressions

I've only had Foursquare's new "Swarm" app for a day, but I'm already super impressed. By trimming out all of the search/review features, they're able to focus the app on providing a great checkin experience and providing more ways to connect with your friends.
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Thu, May 15, 2014 7:40pm -07:00 #swarm #foursquare #checkins
History search is quite possibly my favorite new feature of @SwarmApp #swarm #foursquare

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Thu, May 15, 2014 7:13pm +00:00 #swarm #foursquare
The "login" process of Foursquare's new @SwarmApp was impressive. It already knew my Foursquare account and I didn't have to sign in or OAuth or anything! Current thinking is they're using the new UIDevice identifierForVendor property which returns the same ID across multiple apps by the same company.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Thu, May 15, 2014 11:38am -07:00 #swarm #foursquare
Instagram Just Geotagged Us To Hell (medium.com)

Mon, May 12, 2014 2:53pm -07:00 #facebook #foursquare #geo #indieweb #instagram #location #venue
beau https://twitter.com/beaugunderson • Oct 11
Damn, @foursquare is removing check-in replies and their app gallery. Suggests using native notifications instead.

@beaugunderson Yeah I was sad to see that. Was a great feature!

San Francisco, CA, USA

Fri, Oct 11, 2013 9:33am -07:00 #foursquare #API
https://github.com/tijoinc/Checkie/issues

Make Foursquare API endpoints configurable. It would be great if the API endpoints the app talks to were configurable. Doesn't have to be a screen within the app, but could use the system Settings app to edit the URLs. Ultimately I'd like to point this app at my own server and use it to post checkins to my site.

Portland, OR, USA

Tue, Sep 24, 2013 10:10am -07:00 #checkins #foursquare #checkie
Pretty nice foursquare checkin dataviz! https://is0.4sqi.net/timemachine/59164/c3491168b8c4b63714e5f19e8cc7f7e4.jpg See yours at http://foursquare.com/timemachine

Portland, OR, USA

Thu, Jun 13, 2013 5:35pm -07:00 #foursquare #checkins #dataviz
Join @Geoloqi and @Esri at the Foursquare hackathon in San Francisco this weekend! https://geoloqi.com/blog/2013/01/join-geoloqi-and-esri-at-the-foursquare-hackathon-in-san-francisco/

Portland, OR, USA

Thu, Jan 3, 2013 2:40pm -08:00 #geoloqi #esri #foursquare #hackathon