Artificial ignorance

[Update: The source code for the app is now available on Codeplex: http://4square.codeplex.com]

Foursquare is one of the leading location aware applications out there today with a rapidly growing user base. They’re really hot right now – they exploded dramatically at SXSW this year. We take it for granted when things “just work” – I can’t recall Foursquare having any kind of downtime at SXSW in spite of the explosive usage they saw that week and this is a huge testament to their dev team that managed the required scale so well.

Some of you may have seen the Foursquare Windows Phone 7 app that was demo’d on stage at MIX last week. The app looks amazing and “critics agree” ;) Continue reading

A couple of weeks ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world got to see what we’ve been working on with Windows Phone 7 Series. The end-user is at the center of our focus, and we’ve built our features and our platform offerings around how someone may want to use our phones. Those who got to see JoeB’s presentation or play with the devices walked away with the notion that our phones are wonderfully different. The next logical step now is for us to remove the covers of the developer platform, so that our developer community can start building applications that will complement the experiences on the phone.

Developers want to Continue reading