The Foursquare competition is heating up here at LOVE (mainly to be mayor of Common). We’re checking in all over the shop and are in the process of making the studio a bona fide Place with Badges, Specials, the lot. And recently another little geo-location gem has been demanding our attention..
SCVNGR has all the Check-in and Friends actions we get from Foursquare, but it also spices things up with their cheeky little Challenges and Treks.
Freshly moved to Manchester, our new Project Manager, Graeme has recently released one of the first SCVNGR treks in Manchester – a tour of the city’s tiled boozers. The trek, called On the Tiles (see what he did there?), maps out a little pub crawl you can do around these iconic, aging beauties, completing location-specific challenges as you go on your smart phone.
So download the app, and get trekking. And tipping. And singing. Karaoke in the Hare and Hounds? 4 points!
…and remember, you’ll need to be in Manchester to see the trek. If you’re not here… you’re missing out. Or do your own.
Stay tuned for more (booze related no doubt) SCVNGR apps from us!
See you there.
Oh come on – this geo-location nonsense is obviously just a fad. A pointless, short-lived, ego-stroking fad. I’m the mayor of my own trousers and so on. Have fun while it lasts.
Foursquare, Gowalla, it’s all rubbish for now. neither of them have realised the scope of what is possible, and are actually in danger of killing it, by being the reserve of the extreme nerds. It will be huge, but this isn’t it.
at the moment, its only real use is either: letting people know where nerds are hanging out and how to avoid them, and telling people when you’re out of your house, so they can burgle it,
Both (varyingly) valid comments, considering where geo-location is right now. I’m going to mull it over as I sip a pint in the pub (free with my 10th check-in).