Foursquare Swarm is a mobile app that allows users to share their locations with their friends and create a record of their experiences in their personal lifelog. Swarm for iOS and Android devices launched on May 15, 2014.

What is the purpose of meet Swarm?

Swarm will be a social heat map, helping users find friends nearby and check in to share their location.

What is the purpose of Foursquare?

Foursquare is primarily for letting your friends know where you are and figuring out where they are. Secondarily, its for collecting points, prize badges, and eventually, coupons, for going about your everyday business. And its becoming popular. Foursquare now has almost 275,000 users in less than a year.

What can I do with my swarm coins?

Starting today, you can exchange coins for perks. Users can still earn coins by checking into venues, with bonuses for checking in with friends, collecting a number of the same types of venues (say, parks, bars or beaches) and various other activity in the app.

Does Foursquare still exist?

The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire. Foursquare knows where their phones are in real time, because it powers many widely used apps, from Twitter and Uber to TripAdvisor and AccuWeather.

How does Swarm work?

A swarm typically contains about half the workers together with the old queen, while the new queen stays back with the remaining workers in the original hive. When honey bees emerge from a hive to form a swarm, they may gather on a branch of a tree or on a bush only a few meters from the hive.

How do you earn coins on Swarm?

Youll earn higher amounts of coins for checking in with photos (up to three photos per check-in), friends, checking into new places or categories, or continuing a streak! Throughout the week, youll be competing with your friends for the number one spot on the leaderboard.

What is a benefit of swarming behavior?

Swarming allows groups of animals to accomplish tasks that they cant do alone, such as defending themselves from a much larger predator. “There are both costs and benefits to swarming and all other behaviors,” said Christoph Adami, MSU professor of microbiology and molecular genetics.

What are the three key aspects of swarm intelligence?

1) Flexible: The colony respond to internal disturbances and external challenges. 2) Robust: Tasks are completed even if some agents fail. 4) Decentralized: There is no central control in the colony. 5) Self-organized: The solutions are emergent rather than pre-defined.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of swarming?

Swarms are also highly scalable and self organising, so they can execute commands like a multi core processor. Disadvantages: mesh networking is much harder to make it work, the overall overhead of every node having a full copy of the AI program makes it very expensive.

Which is an example of swarming?

The definition of a swarm is a large number of people or insects, especially honey bees. When 2000 people all show up for a protest, this is an example of a swarm. When hundreds of honeybees fly out of their nest, this is an example of a swarm.