Foursquare App for the Palm Pre Coming

Foursquare is a really cool social app that uses location based services to connect you and your friends to various locations and businesses. It was launched at SXSW and has since gained momentum with the tech savvy. One can become a "mayor" or earn "badges" for visiting certain locations often and then noting them via their phone's location based service, text message, or the Foursquare mobile site.

The service is getting so popular that bars, restaurants, and cafe's are starting to give the "mayor's" for their business special discounts and in some cases FREE BEER and DRINKS! The idea is that these mayors are key influencers and can generate a lot more business for them by talking about their business and inviting their friends. Duh.

Of course there is an iPhone app that is quite popular and is the main reason for the popularity of Foursquare. One can also use SMS to give their location to the service and earn badges and mayorships. Or one can go to the mobile site. But who want to do those things?

So I emailed the company to ask if they had plans to develope a WebOS app for Foursquare. And believe it or not I actually got an answer from Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of the company. He assured me that they have some "folks" plugging away with the API and that a WebOS app would be coming soon. This is great news for Palm Pre users, its a sign that developers and companies are taking notice and working hard to get apps out for the platform. Now if Palm would just open up the SDK, we could all start loving our Pre's even more!