How you can help bring Foursquare to Des Moines

How you can help bring Foursquare to Des Moines

December 3rd, 2009 / Posted by Nathan T. Wright

On November 19th, Foursquare (a location-based social network) announced it was adding 50 more cities to the service. Unfortunately, Des Moines wasn’t on the list. Thus, it’s time to make some noise.

Here’s what we’d like you to do. Create a video response to my YouTube video above, telling the Foursquare team exactly why you want the service to come to DeMo. Be sure to shoot it inside or outside your favorite coffee shop, restaurant, bar, office, etc. (whatever venue you know you’ll be the Mayor of).

If our community creates enough videos, we might just get noticed. Don’t forget to include the words Foursquare and Des Moines in the YouTube tags and title. Visit YouTube’s help section if you need assistance posting your video response. A direct link to my video can be found here.

For those readers asking “Huh? What’s this Foursquare thing you speak of?” — it is a location-based social network that you use to “check in” at your favorite haunts (with your GPS-enabled mobile device) and compete with your friends over who visits more often. If that’s you, you become the “Mayor” of that location. Foursquare’s creators refer to the service as 50% friend-finder, 30% social cityguide and 20% nightlife game.

Currently I’m the Mayor of a martini bar in Indianapolis, but I’d much rather be battling my Des Moines friends over Mayorship of venues here in town. So let’s get started on those videos, folks. If you’re too shy to create one, you can demand Des Moines as a Foursquare city using this form.

Lights, camera — action!

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Filed under: Des Moines, Social Media, Social Networks, Video
Tagged as: Area 52, Foursquare, Location-based social networks, Social Networking

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MikeSansone December 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Great challenge! At tomorrow's CIB, Thursday's TechBrew, and everywhere & in between. Flip it, iphone it, YouTube it. Let's Fours(quare) their hand
MikeSansone December 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Great challenge! At tomorrow's CIB, Thursday's TechBrew, and everywhere & in between. Flip it, iphone it, YouTube it. Let's Fours(quare) their hand
student_london December 4th, 2009 at 2:49 am

Hey guys,

Why not try out a location based service that is available anywhere and everywhere around the world?! I know that Rummble (http://www.rummble.com) has NO city limits and offers unique functionality that you can't really find anywhere else.. give it a go, I don't think you'll be disappointed.. all in all, I like it better than other apps because it helps me solve a problem, not just feeds my 'gaming' addiction.
Lindsay Rees December 10th, 2009 at 11:12 am

Have you tried Gowalla? I've been reading about both and Gowalla seems to have an advantage in that it's GPS-based, meaning users have to prove that they're actually at (or at least in the vicinity of) the location they're attempting to check in at. It does have a downside in its lack of promoting “mayors” and the ease of creating new, arbitrary locations (ie “my bedroom”), but it looks like a solid competitor to me. Thoughts?
Lindsay Rees December 10th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

Have you tried Gowalla? I’ve been reading about both and Gowalla seems to have an advantage in that it’s GPS-based, meaning users have to prove that they’re actually at (or at least in the vicinity of) the location they’re attempting to check in at. It does have a downside in its lack of promoting “mayors” and the ease of creating new, arbitrary locations (ie “my bedroom”), but it looks like a solid competitor to me. Thoughts?