{"id":7037,"date":"2017-08-29T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:13:08","slug":"linked-foursquares-redesigned-swarm-app-is-a-journal-for-capturing-your-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/29\/linked-foursquares-redesigned-swarm-app-is-a-journal-for-capturing-your-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Foursquare\u2019s redesigned Swarm app is a journal for capturing your travels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2675,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theverge.com\\\/2017\\\/8\\\/8\\\/16110016\\\/foursquare-swarm-app-update-check-in-lifelog-diary&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241208024332\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.theverge.com\\\/2017\\\/8\\\/8\\\/16110016\\\/foursquare-swarm-app-update-check-in-lifelog-diary&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 00:55:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 07:13:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 17:15:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 15:02:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:25:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 16:59:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 16:59:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/8\/16110016\/foursquare-swarm-app-update-check-in-lifelog-diary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via The Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Crowley and crew want Swarm to be a diary of your day-to-day life that can tell you, years from now, exactly where you were on a given day. Compared with boasting to your friends about your 14th consecutive coffee shop visit, the lifelog is a grander and more appealing purpose for the check-in. \u201cIf you get in the habit of checking in everywhere you go, you just take it for granted that you have this version of your memory that you will never forget,\u201d Crowley says.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why I still use Swarm. The 1,000 friends and 500 followers on Swam along with the 300 additional friends requests I can\u2019t answer because I\u2019m at friends limit don\u2019t really matter to me. I\u2019m sure most aren\u2019t even active anymore. I have Swam sync with Dropbox as an XML file via IFTTT and have a record of every place I\u2019ve been since 2007. It\u2019s pretty amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Verge: Crowley and crew want Swarm to be a diary of your day-to-day life that can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-08-29T16:13:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"86dcbfe7-b525-4aea-8835-58dc6548efbd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-08-29T16:13:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ahty_57UlSuqINVjcZUjvvQ","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":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"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_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Pv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6561,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/technology-is-swarm-safe-from-foursquares-demise\/","url_meta":{"origin":7037,"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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