Become a Foursquare emperor with Mayorama

Mayorama, a new iphone app designed by Daniel Luxemburg, makes it easier than ever to maintain and multiple your Foursquare mayor-ships.

With the 99-cent Mayorama app, you can check on your current mayorships, find out how many more check-ins will earn you mayor at your favorite spots around town and, using the smartphone’s GPS, you can see all the Foursquare venues around you in a list and plotted on a map.

When viewing these nearby venues (dubbed “targets”), the application will also display how many check-ins are required in order to become mayor. This lets competitive users easily find new venues in need of a mayor.

(via ReadWriteWeb)

For those interested in capitalizing on the deal function of Foursquare, Mayorama gives you added ability to protect and increase your current deals. For those interested in location-based gaming, Mayorama opens up entirely new territories for conquering.

Get the app: Mayorama.

Fourwhere: Foursquare, Yelp and Gowalla on a single map.

Around SXSW ’10, Sysomos, a Toronto-based social media software developer, released Fourwhere, a web tool that mashed up Foursquare tips with the Google Maps API to give users an enriched experience of their surroundings.

Earlier this week, the service got a major upgrade, adding comments from Gowalla and Yelp to its map:

Drill into a specific area by searching for it at the top of the site. Right clicking* on the map gives you a menu that lets you either show nearby venues with comments or all venues in the area. If you choose to see venues with comments, Fourwhere will search all three services for tips and display them on the map. You’ll also see a list of all the locations and their comments on the right.

When you click one of the tip bubbles, you’ll see comments from all three services combined in the box, along with an icon to denote which service it came from. Click the user’s picture to get more information about them.

(via About Four Square)

It’s great to see aggregators like Fourwhere organizing the various location-based data bits popping up across the various networks in order to provide users more all encompassing local knowledge.

Spotisquare & mobile mashups

Spotisquare is a mobile web app that lets you add music (spotify playlists) to places (venues on Foursquare). Smart!

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Foursquare Introduces “Celebrity Mode”

Users can now “follow” celebrities on Foursquare, a new, more Twitter-ish mode of using the location-based service instead of requiring a mutual friending.

This is the result of another business partnership with Foursquare, this time with VH1 and MTV.

As Mashable states:

Celebs were paramount to Twitter’s move into mainstream, so it’s not surprising to see Foursquare tweaking its service to accommodate them.

Vicarious.ly real-time location-based stream

Vicarious.ly is a real-time location-based stream of information presented in a nice visual way. While the plan is to eventually launch one for many different cities around the U.S. and eventually the world, the first one is based around Austin, for SXSW.

To make it, SimpleGeo partnered with BlockChalk, Brightkite, Bump Technologies, Flickr, Fwix, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter to pull all of their location data and place it both in a constantly-updating stream, and put data points on a Google Map at the top of the page. These data points are represented by the logos of the various companies, so it’s easy to follow visually.

(via Techcrunch)

Foursquare’s new location history feature

Social data gets even more interesting. Foursquare has added an interesting new layer to your location history. You can now go back in time and see who else checked-in at a particular location from your check-in history. They are also planning on releasing a new iPhone app this week.

More from TechCrunch here.

Think about how you use location based services

As more location based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Google Buzz are being used, Please Rob Me is a site that aims to raise awareness about the need to think about how you use location based services. It highlights the potential downsides to publicly telling people where you are. It aggregates all tweets sent with the words ‘just left home’ to highlight how people could if they got access to your address break into your home while you’re gone.