What else can we do based on Foursquare?

One feature associated with Foursquare is registration (checkin), where you need to use mobile devices (now it supports the iphone, BlackBerry, Android, and Palm four handsets), register using the service-provided apps, and then say you've been here.

It integrates Google-map and provides a rich API (including sync with http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/1560.html ">facebook, Twitter). A more detailed understanding of its features and visions is available in a Foursquare official presentation.

Yesterday read an article, the public commented on the Foursquare, read some regrets, why many people think that the public comments, such as the most suitable for the Chinese version of the net Foursquare it? The reason may be that Foursquare needs a lot of venue. , if it is all relying on the user to add words, may be to audit a great burden, and the public comments such as merchant comments site, just have the formation of the merchant information system, so directly add a check-in function has become the most cattle-breaking China Foursquare. But I want to say is, merchant + comment, just foursquare all function of a small link, and not as the absolute core, this is just a public comment on the icing on the cake a function, not how constructive pioneering.

Let's think about it. Foursquare Advantage: Based on the location of the check-in, only need 1 steps, if the upload image function, but also need to take photos, check-in two steps, if it is combined with evaluation, recording function, it will be troublesome, especially in the mobile state of the input problem. So the core function of Foursquare is to check-in this action and tell my friends where I am.

So, first of all, we need to be clear that the check-in function of Foursquare is its core, foundation and unshakable. Check-in is not only the merchant, but also the attractions, the library, the gymnasium and so on.

But if only check-in function, there is no mayor, badge, discount incentives, may also be used, but more of it as a tool to use, 1 is the record of life, 2 is based on position evaluation (so like the public comment on it?) ）。 Foursquare can be so hot, users in the short term from 30w to 50w, in addition to the basic functions, it is the icing on the cake of those elements.

Foursquare games, more like entertaining, or through these to gain material benefits.

Through the success of the network feather level game, we can see the Chinese playing the internet is a pan-entertainment mentality. Some tourist users can give us the core information, but more than 80% users, we have to give them an outlet, a game mechanism.

The following is an exploration of what we can do based on Foursquare

1. Game

Premise: Based on positional relationships, you can see who's around.

Game Sex: Circle people when the eldest brother, be in the circle when the boy, the eldest brother wants to become Super boss, younger brothers want to escape control

Advantages: Curtilage People can also play, the mobility of the people have advantages

Limitations: Based on mobile phone

Rules of the game:

within 1km radius, Circle 5 people, you get a badge (eldest brother badge) you become the boss, by the circle of 5 people become younger brother you can only circle less than you people are circled outside the 1km location check-in, you can escape control as long as there is a person fleeing control, You're no longer the boss, when you build up 10 big badges to become Super Boss

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Two people have rewards for people with more displacement than displacement, displacement equals a fixed number of people have rewards

Way：

real-time GPS rendering check-in and check-in line connection

Display：

sent to Weibo to send to social networking sites to automatically store albums such as Flickr 1.4.1. System Egg

When the user is in a place check-in, will obtain the system to bestow the egg, may be the merchant coupon, may be the travel card and so on

1.4.2, I bury you and I bury the eggs when I check-in in a certain place. You pick up the eggs when you check-in here. You can choose to open or discard the eggs can be added points, can be a wish, can be a bomb buried eggs can be set to all people visible, to friends visible 2      . function

To-do-list to add the trailer function

Saturday 3:00 in 798 What to do, widely recruited participants

Chenk-in the most frequent restaurants, attractions, hotels ...

The most rated restaurants, sights, hotels ...

3. Business one-way follow merchants, businessmen can shout, release discount information merchants need to purchase landmarks, otherwise there is no one-way follow function

Give a banner to the top three merchants

The

online pennant (similar to a badge) is a mobile entity store that can also hang banners, two-way advertising

In thinking about these times get @glif and @harold a lot of help and inspiration, sometimes feel that they want to do things or some naïve, but to explore the better than stagnation, I hope everyone to shoot bricks ~

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