Last Night's Check-ins - A Foursquare Diary
Doug Pfeffer
Developer : Boston
topics: Process, Technology Industry, Programming Languages, Mobile, and Software
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Along with today’s announcement that Foursquare’s API has gone live I’m excited to start showing off Last Night’s Check-ins. It’s sort of a diary driven by your Foursquare checkins. It’s super easy to use. You just sign up and it’ll email you a list of your checkins from the previous night, and you can email back some notes about each one. It’s awesome to look back a month after the fact and see what you were up to all those late nights.
The fact that the only interaction you really need to take is via email makes it really convenient to participate. Like Noah Brier said: email is “an interface that allows you to sustain interaction. Everyone checks their email every day (or almost every day) and replying to an email couldn’t be easier.”
So go check it out! lastnightscheckins.com.
3 comments
totally agreed on email being one of the easiest mediums. i think one of the integrations i like most is something like disqus: it makes leaving comments so simple, it's almost silly not to
Couple of suggestions:
1. Allow me to customize the format of the email I receive (I'm autoposting to my blog)
2. Option to embed the map link in the email
3. Option to only show latest checkins on map vs all.
Thanks
doctorbombay
I'm glad you're into it. Thanks for working with us API developers so much. You've all been super helpful.
@doctorbombay,
Those are good ideas.
> 1. Allow me to customize the format of the email I receive (I'm autoposting to my blog)
I think it might be easier to provide a feed of your notes? Initially I thought these "diaries" would be private, but perhaps more people have a desire to share them?
> 2. Option to embed the map link in the email
I'll definitely put the map link in the emails. I don't think most people know they exist.
> 3. Option to only show latest checkins on map vs all.
Like checkins for the past few weeks, rather than all of them? That's something I'll think about, for sure.