I’m currently writing this to you fromCourtney & Jess’s apartment. That’s an official Foursquare location. It pops up on Instagram, Foodspotting, and on the web. Along with photos, comments and tips.
A few months ago, Foursquare changed how venues categorized as ‘homes’ showed up on the app to help protect users’ privacy of people’s homes. This meant that ‘homes’ only showed up in the ‘nearby places’ list if you were friends with the creator of the venue, if you’d checked in there before, or if you searched for it specifically by name.
For the past few months, the devs at the popular New York City startup gave its venue database a massive overhaul and re-categorized numerous venues as homes. And today,Foursquare announcedit’s making homes even more private:
It also added a new ‘Report a problem’ link, which allows users to report that a place is their home.
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A Foursquare little known fact: the most popular superhero-related home name is the ‘Batcave’.
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Story byCourtney Boyd Myers
Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr(show all)Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder ofaudience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally.
Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle.
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