A popular smartphone app called Foursquare, lets players use their phones to "check in" to the various restaurants, bars, art galleries and friends' apartments they visit in the course of their day.
With each stop, they earn points; people who complete special challenges like visiting 20 pizza joints, staying out past 3 a.m. on a "school night" or being a serial karaoke singer get special merit badges, as if they were digital Boy Scouts.
Crowley sees these video-game-style rewards as reason enough for Foursquare users to make more effort to explore the real world and, in the process, to have more fun with their daily lives.
It was launched in 2009 and having a good download.
Src: [edition.cnn]
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