Foursquare’s New Web Home
Alongside its new Android app, Foursquare recently launched an all new website design. Overdue updates to the year-old site bring a more user friendly atmosphere to the page. Both established and new users will enjoy what Foursquare has been doing in the attempt to compete with other social media sites such as Facebook and Google Buzz.
Ease of use enhancements include new toolbars to aid in navigation around Foursquare.com and find its functionality features. Making such upgrades can convince visitors to look over more of the page, and as they do, more people may sign up for its services. Using enhanced toolbars to find those services and discover what Foursquare can do for them, for example linking them into FourWhere and other maps to find things to do makes the users more likely to recommend the app to friends. Thus, an entire social circle may find one another on Foursquare and set up their meeting places and times.
New settings and a new name only logo have made the page easier to see and to navigate. The new settings include a redesigned history area where a user can categorize venues, helping him or her to decide which group of friends would enjoy a particular place and meet that group in that location. The same area of the site even allows the user to see which friends he or she checked in with in various places to enhance the possibility of meeting there again or picking someplace new to have a fun night out. On the flip side, an option in the setting page of Foursquare can be checked to allow local businesses to know that a user has checked into their venue. Once the venue receives verification it can see stats from Foursquare showing recent and frequent visitors and popular checking times to help adjust business hours. Users of the service can opt out of this feature and keep their visit private.
The signup page shows the greatest amount of upgrades. Many of these are important for getting new Foursquare users to join and to teach them how to get the best experience. Foursquare’s new signup page provides step by step instructions for ease of use, a boon in getting less experienced social networking users onto the service. Now, users can sign up and find friends on the Foursquare network by way of Twitter and Facebook Connect. They can link to conversations involving contacts on all three networks, making Foursquare a vary powerful communication tool among friends. After signing up and creating a list of friends with whom to chat, the user can then see a one page display of the other features it offers, such as downloading the mobile apps or exploring new places.
In this way, Foursquare offers many new things to users of its website. They may learn more about the service, sign up to use it, and connect with friends. The new site will help Foursquare in adding desktop computer users as well as mobile users.
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Foursquare has definitely come a long way, can’t wait to see what the future holds for this company. There is a lot of potential.
The upgrades have made it much easy to navigate.
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