Great ideas only come around every so often, but some of us simply lack the ambition to bring these concepts to life. The startup business is a cutthroat world full of forceful competition, and the entire experience of attempting to build your company from the ground up can definitely be an intimidating one. Fortunately, Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley was able to part with a bit of welcome advice during an interview with angel investorKevin Rose....

Ok. That’s a slight exaggeration but it’s fascinating nonetheless. In the earliest days of social media, users relied on some of the most obscure methods to broadcast news to their friends. Or at least, that’s whatFoursquare founder Dennis Crowley said in an interview with Kevin Rose. Crowley, looking back on simpler days, recalls recognizing the trend in cellphone usage where users would shoot text messages to their friends to alert them to where they were headed or where they were located....

Location-based social network Foursquare is currently experiencing issues where user badges are randomly deleted and then restored, only to spam the Twitter feed with achievements as if they had been earned for the first time. Foursquare users that have set their accounts to automatically tweet new check-ins and achievements have only noticed their accounts are behaving erratically when their Twitter feed has been spammed and friends have blasted them. Once such user was Financial Times technology editorTim Bradshaw, who found himself earning six new achievements in a number of minutes:...

Last year atTech CrunchDisrupt, Dennis Crowley said hisFoursquareproduct was 10% of what it should be. Crowley says they’re growing at 1 million users per month with 60 employees focusing on machine learning. Today, Foursquare boasts 600 million checkins total, averaging 3 million per day from its nearly 10 million users. Today at Disrupt 2011, Crowley dismissed rumors of a possible partnership with Groupon. “Are you doing a Groupon deal,” Arrington asked....

FourSquarehackathon prize winnerMy Next Trip, created by developerBenjamin Netter, uses FourSquare’s API to help you plan your next big city trip. FourSquare has announced its ‘Global Hackathon’winners on its blog. All you have to do is log into the site using your FourSquare credentials and authorize the app. You’re then given a simple search box to type in the city you’re planning on heading to. Then the magic happens with all of the data FourSquare has collected from our check-in’s, tips, pictures, and to-do lists....