I'm working on a web site where registered users can sign up to
receive a custom, contextual SMS message on their mobile whenever they
checkin to Foursquare. I'm not building a custom Foursquare client,
I'm just building a free, non-commercial add-on service that
complements existing Foursquare clients. So it's crucial that my
service work with all the existing Foursquare clients.
Ideally, after a user does the oauth dance on my site, I'd like to be
able to add a rule to 4sq saying, "Call this URL whenever this user
performs a checkin".
If this isn't possible, then the only other way I see of doing this is
after the oauth dance, to constantly ping a user's checkin RSS feed
for changes, and alert them when I notice a new checkin. But that
option seems like an unnecessary waste of both mine and Foursquare's
CPU cycles...
Thoughts? Alternative ideas?
it is a great idea
one that's been on my list for a long time + that we're still thinking
about
curious to hear your thoughts on these 'triggers' versus XMPP or a
similar stream
naveen
Thanks,
- mOlson
On Feb 10, 8:30 am, naveen <naveen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> will
>
> it is a great idea
>
> one that's been on my list for a long time + that we're still thinking
> about
>
> curious to hear your thoughts on these 'triggers' versus XMPP or a
> similar stream
>
> naveen
>
> On Feb 8, 2:56 pm, wubbahed <will.turn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Is it possible to have a web service called whenever a user performs a
> >checkin?
>
> > I'm working on a web site where registered users can sign up to
> > receive a custom, contextual SMS message on their mobile whenever they
> >checkinto Foursquare. I'm not building a custom Foursquare client,
> > I'm just building a free, non-commercial add-on service that
> > complements existing Foursquare clients. So it's crucial that my
> > service work with all the existing Foursquare clients.
>
> > Ideally, after a user does the oauth dance on my site, I'd like to be
> > able to add a rule to 4sq saying, "Call this URL whenever this user
> > performs acheckin".
>
> > If this isn't possible, then the only other way I see of doing this is
> > after the oauth dance, to constantly ping a user'scheckinRSS feed
> > for changes, and alert them when I notice a newcheckin. But that
> > option seems like an unnecessary waste of both mine and Foursquare's
> > CPU cycles...
>
> > Thoughts? Alternative ideas?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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-- Colin
Are you looking for a data feed for checkins across the board or are you looking for checkins for your users?
If you're looking for checkins just for your users, what i've done is create a bot account that automatically friends your user. The bot then constantly pings the system 2x/min requesting friends' checkins. This is the only way i've seen to simulate a real time feed for user checkins. Obviously, if your user decides to unfriend your bot, then you would lose the real time checkin data.
It'd be cool if some sort of real time check stream (XMPP/PubSubHub/whatevs) was established. If that were possible, some real cool recommendation apps/etc could be built off the data set.
-d
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Just a thought... radius calculations are relatively expensive to do --
I believe Twitter do a rectangle instead.
D
Personly I wouldn't mind stream on venue checkins but I don't like user streams(unlease they are a friend with the authicated user) or streams by geo radias or venue tags/catagories, as I think that to many users will not like the exposed checkins.
On Aug 31, 2010 9:26 AM, "Dave Ingram" <da...@dmi.me.uk> wrote:
> 4) All checkins within a distance of a lat-long e.g.
Just a thought... radius calculations are relatively expensive to do --
I believe Twitter do a rectangle instead.
D
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