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5 Years at Foursquare

June 3, 2015 by Eric Friedman

I have spent the past year or so working on the latest advertising offering from Foursquare called Pinpoint. It’s really the culmination of my five years working Foursquare and an undertaking that was touched by almost every team within the Company. In the months leading up to launch we have assembled an amazing team, some …

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Tags: Foursquare, Pinpoint, Swarm

Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly

December 17, 2010 by Eric Friedman

I am very excited to announce that Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly I am extremely proud of this sandbox project created by my co-founders and friends Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt, and Sam Brown Below is the final goodbye page we posted on Eat.ly notifying our users on 12/17/2010 We began working on Eat.ly in the fall of 2009 as …

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Tags: Eat.ly, Foodspotting, Foursquare, Mike Singleton, Sam Brown, Sam Huleatt

Watch America Vote on foursquare

November 2, 2010 by Eric Friedman

I got the chance to work with some talented partners on a recent voting visualization which tracked voting check-ins on foursquare on a voting map. (its also embedded below) When we first conceived this idea, it was setup to accomplish three major things Encourage civic participation through the distribution of the I Voted foursquare badge …

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Tags: Foursquare

The Social Media Tsunami

September 1, 2010 by Eric Friedman

My friend Mike Singleton just coined a new phrase which I like which happens after you meet someone for the first time, or correspond with them online.  It represents the full monty of online connections that can occur.  These usually happen in fast succession resulting in an avalanche of connection options coming from one person …

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Tags: Facebook, Foursquare, Mike Singleton, Networking, Twitter

Ambient Awareness

June 21, 2010 by Eric Friedman

We now live in an age where you can be super connected to people you do not see or speak to everyday. This has been made possible by the ubiquity of social networks, and mass adoption. Everyone is not online, nor on a social network – but we are getting there. For those of us …

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Tags: Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter

Joining Foursquare

April 12, 2010 by Eric Friedman

I am excited to announce I am transitioning from Union Square Ventures and joining the team at Foursquare. It is hard to believe that just two years ago I first wrote on this website about joining USV. It has been a thrilling and educational experience working at Union Square Ventures. I will forever be indebted …

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Behavior Generated Content

March 9, 2010 by Eric Friedman

Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is an …

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Tags: Behavior Generated Content, BGC, Eat.ly, Foursquare, Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt

Techies Give Back: Ice Skating Event

December 14, 2009 by Eric Friedman

Yesterday a group of folks from the NY tech community called Techies Give Back got together with Camp Interactive for a day of skating and fun at Chelsea Piers. Tickets were sold to benefit the kids, but the day was also a success due to a promotion between Pepsi and Foursquare using social check ins …

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Tags: Chelsea Piers, Foursquare, Pepsi

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