Speech by Charles Birnbaum (Foursquare) at # MBLT13

A month ago, our international mobile conference # MBLT13 was held in Moscow. More than 400 participants and 30 speakers from the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Singapore, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Russia gathered in the Digital October center.

One of the invited foreign speakers was the director for the development of mobile and international direction of Foursquare - Charles Birnbaum. This was the first performance of a representative of Foursquare in Russia.


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In his report, he spoke about how the company has traveled in 4 years. How Wikipedia has evolved for places in a huge information network, how the creation of an API for large partners helped to make a big boost in business development and much more.

Under the cut summarize the main facts of the speech.


Foursquare worldwide statistics for May 2013:

• 3,500,000,000 + Chekines;
• 50,000,000+ establishments;
• 50,000,000+ public photos;
• 33,000,000+ users;
• 25,000,000+ tips;
• 5,000,000 + Chekinov per day;
• 1,000,000 + establishments with managers;
• 30,000+ super users.

Foursquare statistics for Russia in May 2013:

• ~ 1 000 000 users;
• 260,000,000 + Chekines;
• 2,400,000 + establishments.

If we talk about the most developing countries, Russia is in 4th place, behind Brazil, Turkey and the United States, where, by the way, almost no new photos, places and clues appear, since everything has been created for a long time.



Other reports from the conference can be found on our youtube channel .