whatevs: soupsoup: laughingsquid: Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses (NT Times) The privacy implications of this make my head hurt. Do Foursquare’s social benefits really outweigh the fact that random businesses are going to begin spamming me on Twitter with (almost certainly crappy) offers to frequent their businesses again? I’m going to go back and read the TOS over on 4sq again. The whole appeal of taht service, at least to me, is that my approved list of friends knows where I am, NOT the owners of the establishments that I frequent. It will be interesting to see if this is the first big misstep of Foursquare. The service has received almost universal praise from both users and the media to this point. Sure, businesses will love this new development (and the data is certainly worth a pretty penny), but will users revolt? And, just as importantly, how will the media treat this? (NOTE: Apparently users will be able to opt-out of this. I didn’t read all the way to the very last sentence of the piece the first time around. My bad.) I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again. Any restaurant that uses opentable has all this information and more, aggregated, annotated etc. (You were a bad tipper? Note in the system! Bought a nice bottle of wine? Noted.) This gives access to similar data for much lower-scale restaurants and pubs, ok in my book.
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Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses (NT Times)

The privacy implications of this make my head hurt. Do Foursquare’s social benefits really outweigh the fact that random businesses are going to begin spamming me on Twitter with (almost certainly crappy) offers to frequent their businesses again? I’m going to go back and read the TOS over on 4sq again. The whole appeal of taht service, at least to me, is that my approved list of friends knows where I am, NOT the owners of the establishments that I frequent.

It will be interesting to see if this is the first big misstep of Foursquare. The service has received almost universal praise from both users and the media to this point. Sure, businesses will love this new development (and the data is certainly worth a pretty penny), but will users revolt? And, just as importantly, how will the media treat this?

(NOTE: Apparently users will be able to opt-out of this. I didn’t read all the way to the very last sentence of the piece the first time around. My bad.)

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again.

Any restaurant that uses opentable has all this information and more, aggregated, annotated etc. (You were a bad tipper? Note in the system! Bought a nice bottle of wine? Noted.)

This gives access to similar data for much lower-scale restaurants and pubs, ok in my book.

Source: The New York Times

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    google analytics
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    soupsoup:laughingsquid: Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses (NT Times)
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    lauraglu, whatevs, soupsoup, laughingsquid: Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses (NT Times) Dang it,
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    I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again. Any restaurant that uses opentable has all this information and more,...
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    The privacy implications of this make my head hurt. Do Foursquare’s social benefits really outweigh the fact that random...
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    I think foresquare is ahead of the pack...location based services and will be really...
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    out. Although I’m not...terribly active, “out...town” kinda...
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  16. attentionindustry reblogged this from everythingismedia and added:
    If you have information like this, you should be able to leverage the hell out of your existing customer base. Genius.
  17. everythingismedia reblogged this from ronworkman and added:
    Do business who operate with traditional loyalty cards (air miles, in-store card, etc) have this sort of dashboard?...
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    down real simple-like...you. Get psyched!
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    nice; reach out to positive, say thank you) use the web - if your fans tweet and use facebook, join and jump in the...
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    Now we’re talkin’. something like this...us, pretty please? My cc details are…
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