New York City Department of Parks & Recreation just unveiled a new view of our city. The interactive map displays markers for each time a visitor checks in to one of over 1,250 NYC Parks locations using the foursquare mobile app. These visitors can get tips of fun and interesting things to do as they explore the park or recreational facility and view “to-do” lists created by Parks. Parks expects more than a million foursquare check-ins to its properties over the next year. Give it a try at http://bit.ly/IZG5Yl.
Use the NYC Parks FourSquare list to find an AT&T wifi hotspot near you: .
A visualization of New Yorkers’ Foursquare Check-Ins
Color Legend:
- Home/Work: Red
- Food: Yellow
- Nightlife: Purple
- Shopping: Blue
The data are representative of check-ins which occurred July 3 - July 11, 2011. The maps were designed by Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab.
“In 2008, men’s lifestyle e-newsletter Thrillist outgrew the cramped SoHo quarters it had been sharing with another digital startup, The Huffington Post, and moved uptown. One block.
The company’s 20 employees stacked their belongings on chairs and rolled them across the street to a 3,200-square-foot space inside the Prince Building at 568 Broadway.
What is now Thrillist Media Group has 130 people filling 15,000 square feet and is on track to nearly double its staff—and its floor space—over the next year. It’s been joined by social-network company Foursquare and software developer 10gen, which both moved into the building in January, and ZocDoc, an online booking service for doctors, which arrived in August 2010. Altogether, the tech sector rents more than 110,000 square feet across six floors in the 12-story building…”
Source: Crain’s New York
Tech Start-Ups Choosing New York City Over Silicon Valley
(Source: cnbc.com)
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Photos from the NYC Mayor’s Office Flickr, by Kristen Artz.
Mayor Bloomberg announcing the new citywide social media channels at Tumblr’s HQ.
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Moving Map Showing One Week of NYC Foursquare Check-Ins
Created by the Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab.
Interactive Foursquare Check-In Map of NYC
Created by the Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab
Density of Foursquare Check-Ins in New York City
Created by the Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab
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