If you’re like me and love collecting achievements, then foursquare will be no exception. You will not be able to collect them all as many of the badges are geo-specific and event oriented. However, most of the Active Badges can be achieved in a short amount of time.

As with any social media experiment, earn awards often and early!

Please take a moment to add me on foursquare.

Active Foursquare Badges

NOTE: The default text is replaced with the requirements when they are found.

NEWBIE

Awarded for your first check in.

ADVENTURER

Check in to 10 different venues.

EXPLORER

Check in to 25 different venues.

SUPERSTAR

Check in to 50 different venues.

BENDER

Check in 4 nights in a row.

CRUNKED

Check in 4 times in a night.

LOCAL

Check in at the same place 3x in a week.

SUPERUSER

Check in 30 times in a month.

PLAYER PLEASE

Check in with 3 members of the opposite sex.

SCHOOL NIGHT

Check in after 3am on a school night.

FAR FAR AWAY

(Geo-Dependant) Checking in outside the city “boundaries”.

BROOKLYN 4 LIFE

Check in 25+ times in Brooklyn, NY.

PHOTOGENIC

Check in 3 times with a venue having a photobooth.

SOCIALITE

“Keep this up and you’re going to end up on Valleywag with Julia Allison”

GOSSIP GIRL

“Spotted: A true foursquare socialite. Chuck Bass would be impressed. xoxo”

DOUCHEBAG

Achievement for checking into places tagged “douchebag”.

ANIMAL HOUSE

“Off the wagon appreciates your business. COLLEGE!”

ZIGGY’S WAGON

Check in with 3 food wagons.

DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’

Check in to 3 venues tagged “karaoke” in a month.

GYM RAT

Check in to a gym 10 times in 30 days.

OVERSHARE

Check in 10 times in 12 hours.

TRAINSPOTTER

Check in with the SF BART 10 times.

JETSETTER

Check in to 5 airports.

16 CANDLES

Send 5 birthday shout outs.

ZOETROPE

Have 10 movie theater check ins .

PIZZAIOLO

Check in to 20 different pizza places.

JOBS

Check in to 3 Apple Stores.

WARHOL

Check in to 10 different venues tagged “gallery”

BABYSITTER

Check in to 10 playgrounds.

SWARM

Check in a spot with 50+ people.

SUPER MAYOR

Be the Mayor of 10 venues at once.

I’M ON A BOAT!

Check in to a venue tagged ‘boat’

Corporate Foursquare Badges

YARD BIRD

Congrats on mastering Harvard Yard on Foursquare! You’re looking (and acting) smarter all the time.

METRO

Thanks for Waking up with the Metro! You’ve checked in near Metro pickup locations on 3 different mornings!

JOURNAL METRO

Merci d’être matinal avec Métro! Félicitations! Vous avez déverrouillé le badge Métro.

THRIVING IRONY

Awarded for checking in to the Thriving Ivory Fillmore Show. (San Francisco)

BRAVO NEWBIE

Congratulations! You’ve taken your first step into the BRAVO world. (It’s not as scary as it sounds!)

REAL HOUSEWIFE

Way to drink, eat, shop, and spa like a Real Housewife!

TOP CHEF

You eat the best from hot dogs to haute cuisine. That’s 5 checkins at Zagat Rated spots!

FASHIONISTA

You’ve found the key to BRAVO’s Launch My Line insignia. Now, go find us some sales!

FOODIE

You eat the best from hot dogs to haute cuisine. That’s 5 checkins at Zagat Rated spots!

TRANSIT CHAMPION

Holy moly transit champ, You sure know how to get around Metro Vancouver! Thanks for going green and riding with TransLink!

VALENTINE’S DAY

Ooh la la! This is your 2nd checkin at a great date spot for Valentine’s Day.

NY TIMES OLYMPIAN

You’ve just checked into a venue recommended by The New York Times during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Go for the gold!

BOXEE FAN

You took the L train to Brooklyn to attend a software party! Pretty hardcore.

SxSW 2009 Badges

FAR FAR AWAY

Awarded for checking in outside of down town Austin.

PANEL NERD

Awarded for checking in 3 days in a row before noon.

SLUT

Awarded for checking in to 3 different hotels.

REDFORD

Nice job sneaking off to see some films (one of the best parts of SXSWi). Gold Badges unite!

PORKY

Awarded for checking into a BBQ restaurant.

TRIFECTA

Name-Brand Party Trifecta! You hit 3 of the big 6: Frog / Digg / Facebook / Goog / 32-Bit / The Decider

ENTOURAGE

Awarded when 10 friends checked in after you.

PV BENDER

Check in 3 nights at the PV House.

SURVIVAL

Check into the SxSW 2009 at some point.

DIGG SHINDIGG

Awarded for checking into the DIGG Party.

KARAOKE RV!

Awarded for checking into the Karaoke RV.

PARTY CRASHER

Awarded for checking into the BrightKite/Dandy ID Party. SPIES!

CES 2010 Badges

INTEL INSIDER

Intel would like to welcome you to CES! Remember, what happens in Vegas ends up on Foursquare, Twitter and Facebook. Drinks on us!

INTEL ALL EARS

Shhhhhhhhh! Otellini speaks! Intel + CES 2010 FTW!

INTEL WORK IT

Thanks for joining Intel at CES! Exercise that Core!

CES 2010

Awarded for checking in at CES 2010

Internet Week Badges

INTERNETZ WEEK

Awarded for checking in during Internet Week.

DOT COM BALLER

“Look at you in your fancy suit up on that fancy roof! You’re the Young Jeezy of the NY Tech scene!”

TRIFECTA

Name-Brand Party Trifecta! You hit 3 of the big 5: Ignite / Yelp / Digg/ Thrillist / College Humor / Webutante Ball!

I’M ON A BOAT!

Check in to a party at The Hotel on Rivington.

WEBBY

Awarded for checking in at the Webby Awards.

Wordmap of @iwasaround on Twitter during the Copenhagen 15 Summit

December 2009 brought the Copenhagen 15 Summit and protesters trying to incite real change. Meanwhile, Iran took to the streets which meant certain death for a few, but the opportunity for the next generation to be scientists, thinkers, and teachers. Greece was in riots over their severe governmental distrust. The Gaza Strip also saw another round of violence. Locally, Pittsburgh City Paper held their awards ceremony and WYEP had a Holiday Hootenanny.

Cop15, I Was Around.

Sincerely,
Foo

G20 was a celebration of Independent Media. My flickr account exploded with traffic and my twitter account was widely retweeted and critically praised. NPR, YES Magazine, and others picked up on my work. Yet, on the heels of the celebration came the unexpected.

After a night of hanging out with friends, I received a phone call at 2am.

“We know where you live boy.”
“Fuck you, you liberal scum.”

The conversation happened briefly. I spoke firmly that I never claimed to be an anarchist nor liberal. Then, I started to ask them questions between their cursing. The best I got was they were Alabama conservatives.

Later, I had found out it was because of this tweet:

Stability is a pleasure for the conservatives.

I had meant to say “Conservative” not “Conservatives” trying to suggest people should try new things outside of their routine. A simple mistake had put me in the firing line of a long-standing battle.

Another threat came in over a different matter:

You have 24 hours to take it offline or we’ll fuck you up.

During Netroots Nation, I vividly recall a conversation about hate mail at the DailyKOS booth. Apparently, they receive such an unreasonable amount of hate mail. So much so, they parodied it at their DailyKOS after party. DailyKOS staff read hate mail into webcams as if they were the source of the emails.

What I take out of these experiences:

People are attentive. No matter the message or response, there are readers on both sides.

There is importance in the message. Enough so there are those who will resort to threats physical violence silence speech.

Role models are crafted out of courage. Freedom of speech is an easy forfeit for perceived safety. Silence should never follow intimidation.

And it continues to this day. Most of them are passive-aggressive social networking messages. Some appear as comments to my blog; some appear as insidious Myspace messages. I can’t help but think, it is a sign of doing something right.

Wordmap of @iwasaround on Twitter during the G20 Summit

Dear G20,

The world is in financial trouble. Everyone agrees you should meet and we hope for the best out of this and the other conferences. Protesters shouldn’t discourage you, they are the disenfranchised of your recent failures. Consider them the muse of real policy change.

In the realm of myth, you are the Tower of Babylon. The world’s power structure met in the center of an unlikely city. A few hundred years ago, I would have been riding a horse towards your tower. Decades ago, a car would have closed that same distance. Today, I ride a bicycle to joust our mutual windmills of economic and climate struggles.

Embarrassingly, you wasted millions on security at peaceful protests. Any damage caused fails to compare to the Pittsburgh Steelers Riot earlier that year. You turned your own fear outward with the LRAD and officers that lined the streets. The teargas did not cause my tears, watching the batons strike innocent students did.

I saw what you did in Oakland that night, I Was Around.

Sincerely,
Foo

As promised at Netroots Nation, I am working on the guide of “How to Game Twitter” or “Social Status Shamelessly”.

I ask that people please be patient as I juggle writing and the conference.