Foursquare shows each user's time machine
A few hours ago, the social network Foursquare has made available to its users a new function for travel through time and be able to consult each and every one of the places you've been and, of course, where you've done Check-in. A kind of history, which had been available for quite some time, but now presented in a way much more attractive, as if it were a personalized infographic, and with the possibility of sharing it in othersocial networksAlso, it looks like it may become a monetization platform for the company.
This function of the social network to discover the environment is aptly called the Machine of the Time, and it is accessed via web, that is, through its website In this way it is only necessary to enter the Foursquare user data and click on the button Fetch My History With this the application is in charge of remembering each and every one of the Check– ins of the user, from the first one that was surely done as a test to check how the application worked. With this, a beautiful and colorful map appears on the screen accompanied by a good number of statistics
This is the record history displayed on the map, joining the points that form the Check– ins according to the order made and composing a beautiful and colorful map that can be followed point by point by the places visited However , what is really interesting are the statistics that accompany it on the screen. Here it is possible to know in the lower right corner the total number of Check-ins made, also being able to know the frequency of use of the application. Next to this, a bar chart shows the proportion of records in different types of establishments, thus marking the user's preferences. In addition, it is also possible to know which and where the last Check-ins have occurred and the frequency of use of the application during thedays of the week,among other issues.
Data that are displayed in a very visual way on the screen and that can be shared through other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, but they are not a greater incentive. And it is that once the Time Machine is used, it can offer little else, at least for a long time.
Of course, it seems that this utility can be used by Foursquare to do business As commented in the specialized media TechCrunch, the application could have found a new monetization method by introducing ads in this tool, such as the one that can now be found on the terminal Samsung Galaxy S4 that, hardly showing the brand, always appears somewhere on the screenAnd what's more, taking advantage of the launch slogan The Next Big Thing (the next big thing) allows the user to know places of their Interest related to your Check-Ins history However, we will have to see if this function has success or remains a mereanécdote so that the user knows how he uses thesocial network Foursquare
