Foursquare, Geolocation Check-in | featured news

Even as it struggles to become mainstream--just 4% of online adults use location-based social networking services--Foursquare has just released several statistics that point to the company's staggering growth over the past year, as well as usage patterns and the locales in which it has yet to catch on.2010 was "just insane," Foursquare wrote in a blog post.

No need to cry when foursquare is down...you've got options.

Mobile check-in app Foursquare's Monday outage happened after staff tried to fix one problem and somehow triggered another.

Facebook's 500 million-plus users will soon be able to track friends' whereabouts across the United States, as the world's largest Internet social network adds technology to increasingly tie its virtual world to everyday life.

Booyah's MyTown game shows that location isn't everything.

The long-rumored geolocation "check-in" feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET