Dennis Crowley: Every Map Should Have Foursquare Dots on It

February 29th, 2012

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BARCELONA: At this morning’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress, three people that are shaping the future of the mobile industry sat together for a chat: Foursquare‘s Dennis Crowley, Nokia‘s Stephen Elop and HTC‘s Peter Chou.

Crowley was perhaps the most informative of the three, throwing a huge amount of Foursquare‘s plans, ideas and strategies at the audience during his 15-minute opening speech. Throughout the keynote, he emphasized that Foursquare is more than a game where people collect cool badges.

‘We have an immense amount of data. We’re going through this data, and creating recommendations for the world,’ he said, likening the next step in Foursquare evolution to a smarter version of Microsoft Office’s animated assistant of old, Clippy.

‘Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar – that’s not interesting. What’s interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home,’ said Crowley.

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Ultimately, he sees Foursquare as an omnipresent layer of data which is open to other apps via its API – arguably its most important “feature”. “Anywhere you see a map, you should see foursquare dots on it,” he said.

In his part of the keynote, Chou was content to once again go through the features HTC‘s new One line of products and the new Sense 4. Him and Elop definitely provided the most amusing part of the keynote, having a little back and forth over which company produces the best camera on the phone. ‘We had the 16-megapixel camera on a phone, but I knew this guy (Elop) would get back at us,” he said.

Later, when asked about how HTC feels about Nokia‘s tight relationship with Microsoft – given that HTC also manufactures Windows Phone devices – Chou said: “We are not a selfish or a close-minded company. We believe it’s beneficial to us.”

Stephen Elop focused on Nokia’s attempt at creating a third ecosystem, besides iOS and Android. It will be powered by the changes brought on by the users in the emerging markets, Elop thinks, and Nokia understands these markets well.

“The result of this shift will be in a distribution of profits from apps. Many people will make money from creating and distributing apps instead of just a few,” said Elop.

At the end of the keynote, when asked how he feels about all modern smartphones being similar, Elop said that design is very important for Nokia. However, when keynote host Rajeev Chand did a quick comparison of a white Nokia Lumia device and the white HTC One X – which definitely look very similar from afar – Elop couldn’t do anything else but laugh. “They’re different when you turn them on,” concluded Chand, and both Chou and Elop seemed to agree.