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Foursquare on the Palm Pre and Pixi has been updated with a few bug fixes and push notifications for friend check-ins. A few minor aesthetic tweaks were also made, like changing nearby specials from in-line with the venue title to a bigger splash button in the top-right, and a magnifying glass next to the search field. The ability to flag mislocated or duplicate venues is a pretty nice addition, and you can also now filter houses to the bottom of your nearby venue list, which is nice. I always found it tacky that people would list their own place as somewhere on Foursquare, but them’s the breaks with user-generated content.
Never heard of Foursquare? It’s a location-based social network that allows you to check in to (and create) particular locations, like stores and restaurants, so friends know where you are. If you check in often-enough, you gain the entirely superficial title of Mayor, although at some businesses, mayors get perks like discounts and freebies. There
If you’d like to give it a shot, the Foursquare 1.1.6 for webOS download link is below, or go over to Foursquare’s Palm page for a looksee around the app.
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Download Foursquare for webOS (Free) [Catalog Link]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
