Ad - Foursquare, presented by Best Buy
Nice ad from Best Buy with Dennis, CEO and Founder Foursquare - and his dad, and his smartphone (looks like a Samsung S3). You also learn what helped him to become a digital entrepeneur: His parents’ buying him long time ago a PC!
NEW: O2’s LBS APP “PRIORITY MOMENT”
Launched in the UK, o2’s program combines features of Foursquare with Groupon. WIll be interesting to see how it evolves.
APP - WEEPLACES VISUALISES FOURSQUARE CHECK-INS
Weeplaces makes your checkins useful. It is a startup that allows users to record, organize, and share geo.
Checkins are a record of your experiences, activities, and places you’ve been. WeePlaces makes use of this data by creating geoprofiles, a personal page of these experiences. Our goal is to be your storage and organization tool of all your geodata.
WeePlaces is made by the geo-startup Movity.com. A bunch of entrepreneurs, who focus on data, geo, and making things awesome. They are funded by YCombinator and raised a $1.3m seed round from angels including Naval Ravikant, Paul Buhheit, and Aydin Senkut.
APP AD: UNLOCK IT TO ROCK IT - VH1 & 4SQ
Foursquare aka 4SQ does some marketing together with the tv music channel VH1. The spot will be airing all summer. “Unlock it to rock it” - the lucky winner gets unlimited free access pass to any live show.
Good example of a succesful media cooperation between Foursquare as new app and service and tv. Seems to be a good symbiosis.
APPS: FOURSQUARE’S DENNIS WALKS AND TALKS WITH WSJ IN EAST VILLAGE
WSJ Interviews Foursquare CEO, Dennis Crowley, tours around Cooper Square, Luke’s Lobster & East Village. Here you learn where you get a very yummy looking lobster sandwich in NY. Can’t wait to try it out.
