The New Foursquare Is Here, and It’s Surprisingly Good
Launching it for the first time, you'll be prompted to log in the same way you always have; but right afterward, the app begins creating a profile of you by asking what you're into. You like iced coffee? Thai food's your thing? How about cozy places? Choose as many or as few as you like, and Foursquare will know better which stuff to show you.
It uses these preferences — along with your check-in history, its own restaurant ratings and data from your Foursquare friends — to surface recommendations just for you. The more you use Foursquare, the smarter these recs will get, the company claims.
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In other words, the app needs to give you options, and those options are often overwhelming. Thankfully, the new Foursquare encourages liberal use of its many filters when looking for the best venue.
Filters are the magic potion that make Foursquare recommendations useful and unique. Not only does it include the usual suspects of filtering by price, cuisine and distance, you can also get much more granular: The app lets you filter search results by specific features, such as being dog-friendly or having Wi-Fi.
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