arbitrary constant

I've signed up for Foursquare, which is

... a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. We aim to build things to not only help you keep up with the places your friends go, but that encourage you to discover new places and challenge you to explore your neighborhood in new ways.

As with all these things, the immediate value doesn't become clear until you've used it a fair bit: when a friend invited me to use Flickr, I took one look at it and promptly ignored it for the next year. Despite being aware of Twitter for around a year, I ignored it. The rest, much to the chagrin of some of the less illuminated of my friends, is .

And so the same goes for Foursquare. But there's a few things going for it that I like immediately: an intuitive iPhone app, some nice incentives built into the design (badges and mayoralties) and the chance to learn more about not just London but localities (even hyperlocalities) within London.

It will be better the more friends are on Foursquare, so please do sign up.

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