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How or where does foursquare gets its geodata from?

I've been trying to answer this myself but I can't find it, would any of you know? ...

Entity resolution for venues and other geo locations

Say I want to build a check-in aggregator that counts visits across platforms, so that I can know for a given place how many people have checked in there on Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite, etc. Is there a good library or set of tools I can use out of the box to associate the venue entries in each service with a unique place identifier ...

OAuth API for Four Square

Hi, Has anyone use any good Java API for four square oauth ? I am looking for something that is thread safe ? Cheers, ...

Integrating FB connect with Foursquare into an IPhone App

Hello. Does anyone know, whether/how it is possible to link your FB account to your Foursquare account within an own IPhone App? This is the functionality implemented by a lot of sites for their Web services. ...

Using FourSquare API in a Rails App

Anybody have any good resources that might be helpful in trying to integrate the FourSquare API into a Rails app? I'm specifically looking for a good tutorial. There doesn't seem to be much out there yet. There are a few ruby gems, but they are pretty bare bones and I need a bit more hand-holding. Here is a resource that I've found s...

How do you do a foursquare style uitableview refresh?

If you haven't seen their implementation Of the refresh of a tableview it is extremely slick. I was surprised to see no search results asking for this to be explained so I figured ask it myself. If you haven't seen it, it basically adds a subviews to the uitableview above the header to the blank part of the screen when you pull a uitabl...

Building a service for my website that has some foursquare features.

Hi everyone, I am interested in extending my website to provide a service which involves users "check in" in my university's campus. Since Location Based Services (LBS) is pretty new, and there are not much literature around that could provide relevant interests to this matter, I have the following questions to ask: First, I know that I...

401 Unauthorized for foursquare OAuth

OK I am pulling my hair after trying this out too many times to debug. So pls pls help me out here I keep getting 401 Unauthorized error after I am redirected back. Here is my code What am I doing wrong here? require 'rubygems' require 'OAuth' require 'json' class SessionController < ApplicationController before_filter :load_o...

Objective-C: How to use xAuth?

Hi, I'm relatively new to Objective-C and am completely new to xAuth. Can somebody show me how or lead me to a tutorial to get a request access token pair and make a request to a URL given username, password, consumer_key, and consumer_secret? I'm really foggy with this, and I don't even know why I get a access token pair (why two toke...

iPhone Objective-C OAuth: A more elegant way to check if a request token is still valid?

I want to do this when the app loads, so I can either ask the user to log in (if not authenticated) or else continue. The only way I can think of is to call a random request (a GET that requires authentication) and check whether or not I get a valid response, but this seems inelegant. I am using the Foursquare API. Are there better w...

Foursquare Oauth with Python

I'm trying to figure out Foursquare's OAuth so I can have a user sign into my app. So far I found this tutorial: http://pkarl.com/articles/connect-foursquare-api-oauth-python/ Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I got the same error message the commenters were getting. If anyone knows what the tutorial did wrong or knows another way of aut...

Any way to verify user's geolocation?

Newbie question. I'm trying to make a mobile site using html5's geolocation (I know technically it's a separate spec, but still) to identify user's current position and post that to a web service which then does something. Basically a browser version of Four Square. Is there anyway that I can verify that the user is really at that loc...

Secrets of Twitter and Foursqaure Ajax-like.

Hey folks, Does anyone know how to make things like these: Im talking about theses "hidden ajax" on Twitter home (Top tweets) and Foursquare Home (Recent Activity), that is in constant update, but theres no request under tools line Firebug. Seems to be "hidden ajax". Does this exist? Thanks. check it out here: http://i.imgur.com/aN9X...

Foursquare - OAuth Authentication - .Net Sample

Is there any sample on how to authenticate to Foursquare using Oauth ? ...

Detect if website is loaded in browser of a native app?

Some Safari features (such as detecting rotation/accelerometer) do not function when a website is loaded in a native app's browser (such as Foursquare). The user agent is still Safar for iPhone... is there any way to detect that the site is actually loading in a native app? ...

How to implement Foursquare's "Mayor" feature - find the user with the highest score in the last N days?

In Foursquare, the user who has the highest score for a place in the last N days is awarded the Mayorship of that place. What is the most efficient way to implement that? A user could have checked into hundreds of places. To display all the mayorships that belong to a user, it'd be necessary to go through all those hundreds of places ...

Foursquare data stream

Hi, Is there an API for tapping into an anonymized version of Foursquare's stream of check-in data? Bing Maps has Foursquare Everywhere to show check-ins. Is there a way to tap into this stream of data? We're basically interested in getting realistic location data for our research project. Thanks --Sid ...

where deos foursquare or gowalla, get thier location data from?

i know foursquare uses google maps api, but how do they retrieve all the business location from google maps, do they save every location on thier database or just access it when a user checks in? sorry if i have confused you, but im so curious!! :)) ...

problem with setting up oauth with the foursquare API

I'm doing the oauth dance with foursquare's api and upon exchanging my request token for an access token I am redirected to an unexpected screen. The screen asks the user to "return to myapp and use this access code to complete the authorization process: WQJITL". Is the reason I am receiving this screen because of a missing header or som...

In layman's term: social APIs and their limits

I want to utilize Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Maps and Yelp in my own social web app (PHP/MySQL), specifically to tap into users' details and trends. How do I use those social APIs and what are the main limitations I need to worry about? ...