foursquare

Should I build on Foursquare or Facebook Places?

I want to build a location based app, so naturally I am going to write my app using an existing API. But I am not sure what the pros/cons of developing on top of Foursquare (or Gowalla) vs Facebook Places. Note: this is not intended as a political debate "which service is cooler/better/sexier/whatever" but a true concern as to the pros...

foursquare API and java

I am planning to develop a very simple java application (not mobile, but desktop apps) that utilizes web services, specifically Foursquare API and Google Map Web Service. I plan to get the users address and then using Google Map to translate the address to lattitude and longitude then feed this result to foursquare API method Venue metho...

XPath to parse JAX-RS result

I don't know how to use XPath so I can parse the result of the XML I got from JAX-RS and put it into an ArrayList or something, here's the code I have so far, it generates a String... but I want to be able to use XPath to parse it, as it's better to parse XML rather than parsing String. private Client client = Client.create(); priva...

curl -u equivalent in .Net WebClient class

The question explains it all but here is some more info. I am trying to use 4sq api with C# and need to send username password pair in every request. The API documentations says that "curl -u user:pass" does the job but how can I do it with WebClient? Don't have time to inspect the traffic, maybe someone knows about it... WebClient.Cred...

Foursquare API - search venue, comment and Mayor

Hi, Can i search Foursquare API for some perticuler venue and their mayor. Like http://www.4sqsearch.com/search.php?point=%2828.635308,%2077.22496%29&place=delhi&tag=coffee&within=15&type1=2&checkins=0 I have to create a page on client's website where user can see all recent checkins, commnets and mayor for their ...