Location-based games
March 12th, 2009 by rbanks
Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids
"Users rack up points based on how many new places they visit, how many stops they’ve made in one night and who else has been there. You become a "mayor" of a hot spot if you’re there often. Mr. Crowley used an example of Spitzer’s Corner, where Nate Westheimer, N.Y.T.M.’s head organizer, hangs out. "If you check in there one more time than Nate, then you get a message, ‘Oh you stole the title of mayor from Nate,’" Mr. Crowley told the Observer in a phone interview this morning. "People get kind of competitve about this." There’s a "Leaderboard" which lists the most adventurous users with the most points." 
The New York Observer
