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Popular location-sharing game Foursquare has just gone global with the announcement of 50 new cities worldwide, doubling the service’s previous coverage. The company says it chose the cities based on feedback from users requesting the service.
The new cities take the service across six continents, but it’s not so long since it was a strictly a tech-insider phenomenon in the US. As cofounder Dennis Crowley told me last week “The goal is to build something that everyone wants to use”. The company first took its service outside the US almost by accident.
It started, like a Coen Brothers film, with two Dutchmen in Texas. Full story...
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