{"id":5114,"date":"2015-10-19T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:51:59","slug":"linked-foursquares-prediction-apple-will-sell-13-15-million-iphones-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/linked-foursquares-prediction-apple-will-sell-13-15-million-iphones-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Foursquare\u2019s Prediction: Apple Will Sell 13\u201315 Million iPhones This Weekend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/foursquare-direct\/foursquare-s-prediction-apple-will-sell-13-15-million-iphones-this-weekend-d7aca59a67d8\">Via FourSquare Blog on Medium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The dataset is very compelling\u200a\u2014\u200aover six years of data about the places people go every day\u200a\u2014\u200aincluding more than 7 billion check-ins at over 65 million places. We have an additional level of insight through our Pilgrim technology, which gives us information beyond active check-ins. Using background location awareness, we\u2019re able to accurately \u201csnap-to-place\u201d phones that stop for five minutes or more at one of these 65 million places. We can triangulate not only from GPS signals, but also all the nearby Wi-Fi access points, and Bluetooth beacons as well.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love location data. Foursquare\u2019s ability to quantify Apple Store traffic for the past 6 years using a database of 7 billion check-ins at 65 million unique locations is just amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via FourSquare Blog on Medium: The dataset is very compelling\u200a\u2014\u200aover six years of data about the places people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:12:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"07cf893c-96a1-40eb-88ce-9dcb8505588c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:12:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AB8-JPJahQOuIzp3LhQVYjA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1ku","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6561,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/technology-is-swarm-safe-from-foursquares-demise\/","url_meta":{"origin":5114,"position":0},"title":"Technology: Is Swarm safe from Foursquare&#8217;s Demise?","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Back when I joined in 2007 until today, Foursquare has been a utility. 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