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Foursquare
Four square is a ball game. Four square may also refer to: Internet and entertainment * Foursquare City Guide, a local search and discovery app * ''4 Square'' (game show), a British game show * ''4 Square'' (TV series), a Canadian children's show * ''4 Square'' (pinball), a pinball machine * Handball (school), an Australian ball game Organizations * Foursquare (company), a technology company and the developer of Foursquare City Guide * Four Square supermarkets * Four Square Laundry, a front company for a British Army intelligence unit in 1970s Belfast * International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Other uses * Four Square (Smithfield, Virginia), U.S., a historic home and farm * Four square writing method * American Foursquare, an architectural style * Four Square (cigarette) See also * Russian four square * Four-square cipher * Lagrange's four-square theorem, any natural number equals the sum of four integers squared * Jacobi's four-square theorem giving the number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foursquare City Guide
Foursquare City Guide, commonly known as Foursquare, is a local search-and-discovery mobile app developed by Foursquare Labs Inc. The app provides personalized recommendations of places to go near a user's current location based on users' previous browsing history and check-in history. The service was created in late 2008 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai and launched in 2009. Crowley had previously founded the similar project Dodgeball as his graduate thesis project in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. Google bought Dodgeball in 2005 and shut it down in 2009, replacing it with Google Latitude. Dodgeball user interactions were based on SMS technology, rather than an application. Foursquare was similar but allowed for more features, allowing mobile device users to interact with their environment. Foursquare took advantage of new smartphones like the iPhone, which had built-in GPS to better detect a user's location. Until late July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
