Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor

Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by zaidf on Monday November 05, 2012 @05:08PM (#4746077)

Last night at 11pm, I stood a block from penn station trying to find a Subway sandwhich store that was still open. Armed with my iphone, it took me a full 15-20 minutes and a half dozen calls before I found one.

Sometimes I feel like companies like foursquare would be better off working on much, much more basic(and less glamorous) problems than ratings and check-ins stuff.

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by harryh on Monday November 05, 2012 @06:23PM (#4746398)

If only...using our checkin data...there was some sort of way we could figure out when a place was likely to be open. Hrmmmmmmm.

It all fits together my friend. These things just take some time to get done.

-harryh

PS: Imagine you had access to billions of checkins covering 10s of millions of users and places all over the world. What sort of interesting things could you do with that data? Feel like you have some great ideas? http://foursquare.jobs

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