History Channel Launches Foursquare Campaign and a New Badge
April 14th, 2010 admin
America might be one of the youngest geopolitical nations around, but we’ve still got some interesting history to discover. Thanks to a partnership between Foursquare and the History Channel, some of the app’s users will get to learn a lot more about the history of their checkin locations over the next couple months. According to the History Channel’s brand new Foursquare page , this initiative was concocted to promote America, The Story of Us , “an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented. It is an intensive look at the people…
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