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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'foursquare'
➠ March 30, 2012
This Creepy App Isn't Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It's A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy
Good article about a skeevy app, but which is causing some people to draw the wrong conclusions.
This app isn’t just using “public” data (where users have specifically told Foursquare/FB “Make this information public”). It requires every user to approve API connetions to 4sq/FB which allows them to gather information that your friends have said “Only share this with my friends”.
Those checkboxes should really read “Only share this with my friends, plus the faceless developers whose apps they approve to access their account”. There’s a lot of information flowing around out there that people think they’ve applied restricted privacy to.
➠ August 27, 2010
➠ July 18, 2010
Check in for charity
Interesting promotion. Adverts on the Muni asking you to check-in on foursquare to cause donations to some fund.
➠ June 2, 2010
Be The Mayor
Work out how many more visits you need to make to a venue to have a chance at stealing the Foursquare mayorship. Only 13 days until I have a chance at the Slide office again!
➠ May 21, 2010
Bacon’s had a busy week
➠ April 6, 2010
“Bacon just ousted Rod B. as the mayor of The Bacon Cave!”
As it should be.
➠ April 5, 2010
CNN: Is Foursquare the New Twitter?
Standard tech filler piece that aired on CNN this morning. Only notable for including, at 1m30s, a snippet of me being a Man On The Street at SxSW. (Thanks to Doug Mak for seeing this on TV and telling me about it!)
➠ March 6, 2010
FireCheckIn
Through the medium of OAuth and APIs, safely links your FourSquare checkins to your FireEagle account.
Now if only there was anything that actually *used* FireEagle’s data. (Beyond the little box on the right hand side of my blog frontpage)
➠ February 21, 2010
➠ September 7, 2009
So *that*’s why they needed the VC funding…
Foursquare has dropped the "play" and is now at foursquare.com.
Man, this is just like when Twttr.com bought the vowels!
➠ March 13, 2009
foursquare
Another friend-location-tracking app, this one from the original makers of Dodgeball. The website is fairly bare-bones at the moment, although the iPhone app is pretty decent.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.