Syracuse Foursquare T-Shirt and Woot! Smores Math Equation Shirt

Alana gave me some great t-shirts. The Foursquare and Syracuse together? AWESOME!

If you want to see a better image of the S’more math – check out this image (h/t to Scott Beale at Laughing Squid for the image.

Great gift and really funny!

George’s Check Ins Across America

The great thing about the Internet is that you can revisit your past. Like a time capsule, it contains nuggets of information long forgotten, only to be uncovered.

I recently stumbled upon Weeplaces – a Foursquare visualization tool. It shows your entire timeline of places that you have checked in. Here’s a visualization of my travel throughout the US.

As you can see, my check ins are focused on the two places I have lived – Boulder, Co and New York, NY. I’ve traveled to Dallas, Chicago, Austin, Bentonville, and Upstate NY a bit as well. Pretty cool to see the distances traveled come and the random airports that I’ve passed through.

It’s even cooler when you go down to the closer views. Here’s my check in’s on Pearl Street in Boulder, Co:

It’s funny to see the places I went to the most. I’m definitely the kind of person that becomes a “regular” somewhere. All the bar hopping and check in’s in Boulder also makes me remember why I was a lot more broke back then.

Geolocation is big these days. And it can be useful. Last night, I needed to reach my girlfriend and she wasn’t answering her phone. She was staying in Atlanta, but I wasn’t sure where. Using Google Latitude, I was able to locate her. I could have also found her via Foursquare. I was able to call the hotel and get connected to her room. While it still didn’t help me in my endeavor, it at least proved effective in locating where she was staying.