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The basic check-in service is not good enough for Foursquare – the company needs to expand to actually start making some serious money. As part of their newly rolled Explore feature, they’ve teamed-up with SinglePlatform to deliver pricing menus for more than 250,000 local businesses across 13,000 markets in the U.S. Whether it’s a spa, salon, bun-jee jumping adventure or restaurant, you can already find out how much it charges for which service/product through Foursquare.
At the moment, the new feature is limited to foursquare.com and m.foursquare.com websites but it’s matter of days (maybe weeks) when mobile apps for major platforms (i.e. iOS and Android) will get the capability, too. Moreover, this data will soon be available on the hundreds of apps that rely on Foursquare’s API.
I like the idea of knowing prices before visiting some local business, though I’m not sure that’s what Foursquare is all about. Then again, the times are changing and so do smart companies. We’ll see whether this new feature will help Foursquare fight with the likes of Facebook and Google…
[Via: thenextweb]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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