{"id":7521,"date":"2010-08-07T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:34:17","slug":"foursquare-users-think-we-might-have-a-shot-at-the-swarm-badge-at-south-of-beales-birthday-party-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/foursquare-users-think-we-might-have-a-shot-at-the-swarm-badge-at-south-of-beales-birthday-party-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Foursquare users: Think we might have a shot at the Swarm badge at South of Beale’s birthday party this afternoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve written about the social app Foursquare<\/a>, where you “check in” at venues you visit.\u00a0 One of the things you can do on Foursquare is earn “badges.”\u00a0 There’s the “crunked” badge for checking in at 4 different venues in one night.\u00a0 Last week I got the “player please” badge for checking in at a venue with 3 members of the opposite sex (it was a friend’s birthday party).\u00a0 If you check in at a venue that has been tagged as a boat, you unlock the “I’m on a boat” badge.<\/p>\n

One of the hardest badges to unlock on Foursquare is the “Swarm” badge.\u00a0 It’s awarded when you check in at a venue where 50 people are simultaneously checked in.\u00a0 Most of the people who I’ve seen unlock it, got it at busy airports while waiting for connecting flights.<\/p>\n

I’m wondering, however, if the Swarm badge will be within reach at South of Beale’s birthday party this afternoon.\u00a0 SOB tends to attract a very savvy crowd when it comes to social media.\u00a0 With complimentary appetizers from 4 to 6 (yes, the Nuh-Uh Girl is on Foursquare, in case you’re wondering), $1 Ghost River Golden until the keg runs out, and $2 birthday shots, it’s going to be a very popular place to be, and lots of folks should be checked in.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen checkins reach the teens and even the twenties at popular events Downtown… what do you think?\u00a0 Can this one make it to 50?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about the social app Foursquare, where you “check in” at venues you visit.\u00a0 One of the things you can do on Foursquare is earn “badges.”\u00a0 There’s the “crunked” badge for checking in at 4 different venues in one night.\u00a0 Last week I got the “player please” badge for checking in at a venue … Continue reading “Foursquare users: Think we might have a shot at the Swarm badge at South of Beale’s birthday party this afternoon?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}