Foursquare Follow Button and Save-To Button Introduced

Posted In Social Media - By Ankul Barar

On Sunday, December 4th, 2011 With Comments

Foursquare Follow Button and Foursquare Save-To Button introduced the two new features to its existing application allowing online Publishers and Webmasters to integrate Foursquare into their websites. The “Save-To Foursquare” feature allows users to a read a review or an article on a website and save it to the Foursquare To-Do List. The saved information is available for the user based on their Check-in Location or if they are within a particular radius (if Foursquare’s Radar Feature is enabled). The feature has been originally been derived from the company’s previous implementation “Add to Foursquare” launched back in 2010, but didn’t seem to be a successful solution. The next feature called “Follow” allows users to subscribe to any website by pressing the button and getting regular updates to their favorite stuff.

Foursquare Follow Button

Those Who don’t know what Foursquare is, Foursquare, stylized as foursquare, is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users ”check-in” at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby. Location is based on GPS hardware in the Mobile device or network location provided by the application. Each check-in awards the user points and sometimes “badges”.

What Does Foursquare Follow Button and Save-To Button Do

Publishers that have already implemented the features include Time Out Mashable, New York, Time Out Chicago, CBS Local Digital Media, New York Magazine, Eater.com and Askmen.com and the list goes on and now we at Techies Home are also using the same.

If you are a active Foursquare user and do not find the above mentioned features, you can use the Foursquare Follow Button , Save-To Button or Bookmarklet which allows seamless integration between your web browser and Foursquare allowing users bookmark any thing on the browser and access it on the application. You can add the same to your web browser via: https://foursquare.com/about/savetofoursquare