Immodestly now allows you to check the official events, but still you cannot create a formal event itself

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Foursquare announced today that people can now check out the events officially, that is strange, because people have actually (unofficially) was checking in for a long time. I mean just look at NYC Mayor Bloomberg, check-in to something called Equalitocalypse. Conceptually, the "hack" is fairly easy for a politician to do is simply a masquerading as a place of the event. In fact I I checked in informal event right now.

So what gives Foursquare, we was checking in for a while? Well basically what was announced today as more immodestly partner events; Foursquare hooked up with ESPN to sports events, MovieTicket.com for movie tickets and Songkick concerts to populate its database with official events.

These events partner will offer users more functionality-registration as an opportunity to detail individual movies in the cinema, and even the inclusion of real-time data, such as sports.  Foursquare, said that she plans on offers hundreds of thousands of "official" events for more than 50 000 jobs in the next few months.

Although right now the event is limited to the three partners, I hear that in the long term, this would apply to any owner site. Immodestly PR representative Erin Gleason said to me: "we think about the sites and users create events, but we want to make sure that we do it right so that this functionality is not currently available."

At the same time, you can keep the ghettos, returning to the event by searching for your event in a nearby field and add it as a place where it inevitably does not show.

Foursquare is a location based social network that includes gameplay elements. Users share their location with friends check in via the Smartphone app "or text message.

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