Say hello to Street FC — a mashup of social + tech + cities + soccer — Back in 2018, I met up with a guy named Kyle Martino at a coffee shop in downtown NYC. Kyle is a former pro soccer player (USMNT, LA Galaxy, Columbus Crew), was the on-air face of NBC’s Premier League coverage for many years and, at the time, was running to…

Much love to those who helped us build this place — employees, investors, partners, superusers & fans! — Friends, After 12+ years of Foursquare, it’s time for me to move on. It’s been quite a run, if I do say so myself — 7 years as CEO and 5 years running the Foursquare Labs R&D group (while moonlighting as Executive Chairman). As of today, I’m stepping out of…

Looking at headphones as widely-used augmented reality hardware — (originally published on Foursquare’s “Intersections” blog — Oct 20, 2020) Hello from Foursquare Labs! We’re Foursquare’s internal R&D team — the team tasked with building new, novel and weird stuff using Foursquare tools, technology and data. Today we’ve got a new experiment for you to play with: Marsbot for AirPods…

On putting Foursquare data to work to aid with the COVID response across the USA — (originally published on Foursquare’s “Intersections” blog – Apr 2, 2020) “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Mr. Rogers Like all of you, we at Foursquare are directly impacted by COVID-19. After publishing our COVID Insights Report, which detailed foot traffic trends across large cities, we received dozens of requests from crisis response teams around the country asking how…

Where 10 years of Foursquare has led us — (originally published on Foursquare’s “Intersections” Blog — March 8, 2019) It’s been 10 years since we launched Foursquare at SXSW in 2009. We say “launch” but back in those days it was really just “hey, let’s show our friends what we’ve been working on”. In those 10 years, we’ve seen…

“On behalf of US Soccer, welcome to the 2018 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup…” … says the email I received from US Soccer in late March. For those of you who have been following the story of Stockade FC — our “open source soccer” club in the Hudson Valley, NY — you probably have a good sense of how much this news meant to…

“2017 North Atlantic White Conference Champions.” It’s got a pretty nice ring to it, right? That’s the headline for what was an amazing second season for Kingston Stockade FC, our NPSL club (4th Division, US Soccer Pyramid). For those who have been following our “open source” and “startup soccer” story…

My view, from 11,261 check-ins Today, we launch Foursquare Swarm version 5.0 — a huge update that we’re all really excited about. Before I tell you more, let me step back a second and tell you why we’re doing it. I know for a fact that there are many, many…

Some notes on the CAS claim filed by Stockade FC and Miami FC Just a few weeks ago, we wrapped up an incredible second season for Stockade FC. We won our Conference Championship (earning our club its first ever piece of hardware!), we broke our attendance record 3x (from 992…