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When Will Foursquare’s Relentless Onslaught of New Features End?

Monday it was lists. Tuesday it was photos. Wednesday it went global. Thursday it was events. Friday it was deep data.

As Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley said back in April, the focus for 2010 and the beginning of 2011 was on scaling the company’s backend and staff so that it could handle its rapidly growing user base. ” A big part of the last year was just spent keeping things up and running. You remember Twitter went through all those problems, we’re not out of the weeds yet, but we went through all those problems this summer (2010).”

With the basics squared away, a new office on the West Coast and $50 million in the bank, Foursquare is suddenly announcing new features, updates, partnerships and events at a breakneck pace. Read More