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Super Swarm Sunday Badge on Foursquare for the Super Bowl

February 4, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Foursquare this afternoon released more information about their Super Swarm Sunday promotion with American Express and Pizza Hut. At the end of the post, they threw out one more tidbit of information: yes, there will be a badge this year.

This year’s badge will be a Super Swarm Sunday badge, featuring the usual swarm badge design, but the bees are replaced by tiny footballs. It doesn’t appear there’s any connection to the NFL for 2012, so you won’t see separate badges for your favorite team or for actually attending the game.

You’ll be able to unlock the badge when you check in to the worldwide “Super Swarm Sunday” venue from the foursquare app. It will begin appearing a few hours before the game and will be active for the remainder of the night.

Foursquare’s servers have come a long way in the past year. Hopefully we won’t see a repeat of last February when they saw numerous instances of downtime during the game brought on by the crush of people checking in to earn their badges.

Foursquare has come a long way in the last year. Take the Super Bowl for example: 130,000 people checked in last year during the game. Since then foursquare’s user base has more than doubled. With the combination of a compelling special (who doesn’t love pizza?) and a badge, we should see even better numbers this year.

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Filed Under: Daily Post, Foursquare Badges Tagged With: American Express, Badge, Check-in, foursquare, National Football League, NFL, Pizza Hut, super bowl, Super Swarm Sunday

Groundhog Day, Ferris and Phil

February 2, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Not only is it a leap year but it also one of the coldest winters on record here in the Great White North. I don’t know if it is good or bad that ole’ Phil saw his shadow in the Keystone State today but I would bet that some wish he would have stayed buried in his little lair…

All joking aside, lets talk about what Groundhog Day truly represents. Only one of the greatest comedy film classics from the boys that brought you Ghostbusters. Enough said? Hardly….

One of my friends in college told me that groundhog day was one of the most spiritual movies ever made. Now that I am older, considerably a bit wiser, and liquid spirits are not clouding my judgement, I tend to agree with him.

Think about it: Hasn’t your life just become just another day of doing the same thing over and over? I think a lot of people live in groundhog day, doing the same thing again and again, not taking the best out of life. Just living without any consciousness. Not having enough time by their own fault, because time is a thing you can offer yourself by making other choices.

As the old saying goes: get busy living or get busy dying. I tend to enjoy the former. What about you?

So what are you doing with your life? Are you getting up every day at 6:00 to go punch the clock to work for “the man”? Or are you doing what you love? Doing what you are passionate about? Living life to the fullest or fulfilling your life with mundane emptiness?

As the great Ferris Bueller once said,

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Are you missing yours? 

Hey, look at it this way, even if you are stuck in that cubical you can check into Foursquare at any location and use the word “groundhog” in your shout and you will unlock this years ultra-cool badge.

Groundhog Day Badge on Foursquare

 

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Local Badge on Foursquare

December 3, 2011 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Who would have thought that my early days of checking in to our dog training school, Denver Dog Works on Foursquare would turn into the adventure that it has. I have checked in our Foursquare at some of the coolest spots in the country and it just keeps getting better!

The unlock text reads:

You’ve been at the same place 3x in one week!

 

Follow my news and updates on Twitter, my whereabouts on Foursquare and  relationship status on Facebook. Or send me a telegram.

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Crunked Badge on Foursquare

December 2, 2011 by robertforto Leave a Comment

The Crunked Badge on Foursquare is another one of the core badges on the app. I got this one at a great Italian restaurant, Evangelo’s, in Wasilly, Alaska with my daughter, Nicole on our trip up here to buy our new house.

The unlock text reads:

That’s 4+ stops in one night for you!

Follow my news and updates on Twitter, my whereabouts on Foursquare and  relationship status on Facebook. Or send me a telegram.

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Superuser Badge on Foursquare

December 1, 2011 by robertforto Leave a Comment

I knew I was in for an addiction to Foursquare when I got the Super User Badge about the first or second day I was using the app. Since then I have more than 4500 check-ins, over 160 mayorships, and close to 100 badges. Keep ’em coming!

The unlock text reads:

That’s 30 check-ins in a month for you!

Follow my news and updates on Twitter, my whereabouts on Foursquare and  relationship status on Facebook. Or send me a telegram.

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