Since the launch of FourWhere earlier this week, the reception has been amazingly enthusiastic with tremendous traffic, a wave of tweets, some great blog and media coverage (e.g. Now Magazine, TechCrunch and Mashable) and, as important, some excellent feedback from users.
As the suggestions for new features and improvements rolled in, our team of developers jumped into action to introduce an improved version of FourWhere, which is a service that combines data and content from Foursquare with the Google Maps API. This makes it easy to find all the places visited by Foursquare users and any comments they may have left about them.
FourWhere’s improvements and new features include:
1. Support for different languages in tips and comments. Content in French or Japanese now render well.
2. There’s no more need for right mouse clicks. The menu of venues and tips now appears with a single left-click.
3. There’s no more Java required. This was mostly a problem for Mac users. FourWhere is now 100% HTML and Javascript.
4. We’ve added Opera support so FourWhere now supports all the major Web browsers.
5. FourWhere can now be used on an iPhone or a Google Android phone, although the small screen size limits the experience.
Below is a graphic showing the venues around the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Tex. where the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference is now happening. For anyone at SXSW, check out FourWhere as a way to discover places to eat, dance, drink and, of course, do business.
FourWhere was created by Sysomos, which offers social media and monitoring and analytics services.
