Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Foursquare relaunches as an individualized suggestions engine


“Our preferences are different, so why should we get the same search results?”

This is Foursquare’s new perspective on their old app. Check-ins? Meet-ups with friends? You’ll need to change over to their sis app Travel for that. (Great name for an Irwin Allen catastrophe film, bad name for an app based on meals and buddies.)

Foursquare 8.0 is here and it’s now all about customized suggestions because getting a one-size-fits-all record of dining places is so 2006. (?!?)

The new app understands your preferences through a wide range of activities. It requires into account the professionals you adhere to, the products that you use and of course, the scores you keep after you check out a position.

The most amazing part of the challenge is the “Add Tastes” selection on the Customize web page. This is a selection of labels that you can just click to add to your information. The record contains primary choices such as desserts and seafood tacos, but the example also has a few more vibrant choices such as “boozy brunches” and “Big Money Hunter”. That last one seems to be a referrals to the video arcade activity, so if you have a actual hankering to capture factors lawfully, you can use this key to discover the experience in your position. Exciting. . .






Foursquare new style preferences Foursquare does trim intensely on the cafe business but the app can also recommend a shop, a vacationer fascination, a cinema and more. If it’s a position you’d like to go on a Weekend evening, you’ll discover it on Foursquare.

When you reach your location, Foursquare will provide up guidelines on what to purchase or do to create the most of your check out. If you keep a tip you’ll generate “expertise.” Not sure what that is but I think it’s something we all want.

They might have to provide more than just a silver celebrity though, if they want this factor to fly. The check-in idea was a sport with a objective. Keep in mind when you could become the gran of a position just by check-in in more than anyone else. The old app was a competitors. Can’t let your co-worker get the gran logo for your preferred after perform bar, no sirree. A few more trips and you’ll grab that logo right returning.

The new app doesn’t have that feeling of emergency. The activity is gone. Now they have to rely on individuals to discuss guidelines out of the benefits of their center. And maybe a little bit for the wonder of seeing your name on an professional record. Seems to be like a challenging go up.

For the Company Owner

Foursquare says the new app will be an even better promotion for regional entrepreneurs because now you can emphasize whatever it is that creates your company unique.

    Now, you can create a tip that informs everyone what you’re known for or what you do best. It only requires a couple of a few moments, and it’ll appear in a devoted position on your record. Offers will appear there, too (and are an excellent way to compensate your customers).

Sounds like Foursquare is shifting in the right route but they did such an excellent job promotion themselves as a check-in app, it’s going to be difficult to get individuals to see it as anything else.

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