Foursquare itself is a game millions of people plays around the world. Blindsquare (and now also Seeing Eye) benefits of the fact that this crowdsourced game creates worlds largest active register of places around the world. If some place is missing, someone playing Foursquare will add it and give it category + address information, because they earn points in a game!
If you like to play this game, BlindSquare has full support for it too. You can also check-in to places without publishing information about your location to anyone. You still earn points and hear your score and who of your Foursquare friends are in front of you. I know some visually impaired are friends in Foursquare and share their checkins. They will get push notifications about friends checkins and get to know if they are near each other. I have plans to have even more benefits if you start playing game while using BlindSquare. For example, from your check-ins, BlindSquare could learn what type of restaurants you tend to like and suggestions will get better and better. I once more want to say that it is not needed to play Foursquare or even have Foursquare account to use BlindSquare. It is just an extra twist and kind of cool to be able to do checkin by shaking the device or even get you automatically checked in places you have given this permission. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Mike. > With foursquare, you can do something called, checking in. > This means, you check in to the place,and you get points for checking in > to the place. Sometimes, places like stores or restaurants will give you > specials for checking in with 4square. > > On 2013-07-08, at 12:06 PM, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello Matt, > > > > Since I have never used BlindSquare or 4Square, I do not know what you > mean when you talk about "checking in" to a place. Could you clarify or > refer me to some explanatory information. > > > > Thanks and best regards! > > > > Mike > > > > On 8,Jul,2013, at 5:25 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Mike. > >> No, you do not need an account with 4square to use the app. The only > reason you would need it is if you anted to check in at the place you were > going to. > >> On 2013-07-08, at 11:11 AM, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I really enjoyed reading your posting, and I have one question: > >>> > >>> Before using BlindSquare, do you need to have an account with 4Square? > I had heard that this was necessary, but I don't know for sure. > >>> > >>> Thank you very much, > >>> > >>> Mike > >>> > >>> On 29,Jun,2013, at 8:06 AM, Vivianna <irish...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> i absolutely love this app. i am still learning the new city that i > have moved to and, this app is great for that. yesterday, for example, i > was on paratransit. well, you know how they tend to drive you about, who > knows where, while on your way to your destination? i started my blind > square app and just had a listen as we were going along. we pulled into a > parking lot, i shook the phone and it told me we were at a grocery store. > i asked the driver; hey, are we at the grocery store and he said; we sure > are. > >>>> it's great for learning new streets as well as what's around you when > on out of town trips also. > >>>> i do use my navigation apps with ear buds though instead of > bluetooth. i think it's just the nature of the beast but, things seem to > be cut out completely or the first part is chopped off. > >>>> > >>>> Vivianna > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >> > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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