Good news Foursquare fans or those in Europe who want to get in on the action. Co-founder Dennis Crowley has confirmed that they have “a big round of European cities coming out today (!! – Nov 4) and then some ‘Worldwide’ cities after that.” He made the comment in a support forum (hat tip to The Next Web).
The cities are understood to be Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, San Antonio, Madrid, Manchester, Paris, Prague, Rome and Stockholm. Until now, London and Amsterdam were the only European cities available.
Crowley also says that the mobile location-based game is working on a “foursquare everywhere” model which will allow someone to check in anywhere regardless of whether it’s a “featured city”, similar to Gowalla. The new feature is said to be out “in the next few weeks”, so hopefully those who live elsewhere in Europe won’t have to wait much longer.
Update (Robin Wauters): and they’re live!
Singapore Next Please!
Why manchester, yet not liverpool? Stupid.
Kenn: you should check out Gowalla: it’s a groovy new location-based social service that already works in Singapore! http://www.gowalla.com or http://bit.ly/walla
Thanks, Will check it out.
hey kenn – give us another week or two and we’ll have something for you to play with in Singapore.
-dens @ foursquare
+1 on Gowalla. I’ve been playing with Gowalla and FourSquare and apart from the points scoring aspect in of FourSquare Gowalla has FourSquare beat hands-down on range (anywhere) and user-interface. On the range side of things I’ve noticed FourSquare does let me set up spots that are not in London but categorises them as London – hmmm; and it’s spot-locating list when you want to check in leaves a bit to be desired.
I like the Items aspect of Gowalla. It’s like virtual geo-caching. If they could implement getting photos or video etc into the virtual geo-cache for a Spot then it would be even better.
#gowalla #foursquare
I can’t believe anyone would want to go out in Brussels. And, how about Milan being, like, the second-biggest fashion city in Europe?
Haha,I agree with the Brussels part and that Milan would be an obvious city to add. Also lot’s of Milanese seem to have smart phones.
Have either of you stayed in Brussels for more than a few days? It’s like saying you can’t go out in Washington D.C. … Where there are politicians, there are journalists and bars. Only: The food in Brussels is probably better than in Washington.
I have been in Brussels a couple of times within the past 2 years, and I thought there were a lot of nice places so no pun intended.
However, there is no way Brussels can compete against Milan in terms of quality of cuisine and places to go out. And we even have some pretty good Belgian restaurants too
dude your ignorance would be sad if it wasn’t so laughable…
you mean the European San Antonio?
Glad to see San Antonio on the list. Hopefully Dallas will be soon, as well.
Hmm, shouldn’t it be ‘cities’ instead of ‘cites’?
reykjavik, please!
Foursquare is leading the way. No point using Gowalla in my opinion (except for the nicer design)
It’s actually 15 new cities, not 14. They added Geneva and Munich (and not San Antonio).
Bangkok is waiting…
hey kenn – give us another week or two and we’ll have something for you to play with in Bangkok.
-dens @ foursquare
Nice Post, and very informative.
Thanks for sharing.
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And of course, you’ve been able to use Rummble anywhere since we launched