KL on Foursquare

Lama tak update blog. Sudah semakin bersawang di sini. Bukan lagi kemalasan nak menyerang ke apa... tapi sesungguhnya I prefer to tweet.

So kalau korang on Twitter, cepat lag follow saja. My ID in case korang mash tatau, is @klubbkiddkl.

Hari ni nak share berita sikit.

Beberapa hari lalu, saya dapat confirmation dari Foursquare yang badge Kuala Lumpur sudah nak siap.

Saya dihubungi untuk menetapkan design yang telah pun disediakan oleh pihak Foursquare sendiri, hasil info aku berikan berdasarkan aesthetic design guide yang mereka berikan pada aku.

Dan hasilnya? This is how it's going to look like!!!

Simple kan? Tapi sememangnya aku pilih bunga raya untuk badge Foursquare pertama milik Malaysia.

Hope you guys like it, and yes ini sudan dipersetujui selepas beberapa email, this is the final design untuk badge kami!

So watch out for the badge, dan auk akan beritahu macamana unlock nanti.

Hopefully this is only a start, and maybe there'll be other badges for Penang, Johor Bahru, Ipoh, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu and lots more soon.

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My pride! Malaysia Boleh!

Aku tau aku da lama malas update blog. Ampun sangat! Sejak migrasi ke Twitter ni, aku sumpah lebih aktif sampai kalao wat blog posting, sehari leh 50 entries kat blog ni punya panjang.

Still, hari ni hari istimewa, sebab hari ni - kita buktikan MALAYSIA BOLEH!

What do I mean?

Sebab aku kaki Foursquare, more than two weeks ago aku perasan meka ada wat 'contest'. Ruangan Foursquare Cities yang menawarkan badge, buka ruang untuk lebih bandar seluruh dunia tersenarai.

In our region setakat ini, cuma Singapore tersenarai. Dan memang Foursquare sudah umumkan, Bangkok dan Jakarta turut akan tersenarai setelah terpilih menyertai senarai bandar-bandar seluruh dunia yang menarik.

Dengan itu, aku memulakan senarai INI - dengan nama Colors of Kuala Lumpur.

Dengan kuasa Twitter, ramai yang tolong menyebarkan senarai ini untuk join the list dan beri sokongan kempen kami untuk dapatkan Foursquare untuk senaraikan Kuala Lumpur.

Dan beberapa jam lalu aku dapat tweet ni!

Gila tak menggigil aku! Aku da bajet tak dapat da. Tambah lagi sebab sokongan berbelah bahagi sebab ada pihak yang masukkan dua lagi senarai Kuala Lumpur lepas aku. Adoi.

Lepas aku buat, ramai lak yang pasang hajat sama. Tapi sebab da sayang masa tu dekat 100 lebih orang dah follow, lebih dari yang lain, aku teruskan usaha kempen saja.

Syukur, senarai aku compile untuk highlight tempat-tempat menarik di Kuala Lumpur berjaya tarik perhatian pihak Foursquare dan my entry won!!!!

Tuh dia! Nama Kuala Lumpur tersenarai! Nak baca penuh KLIK SINI!

Dengan kemenangan ini, dengan sahnya Kuala Lumpur akan disenaraikan dalam Foursquare Cities DAN akan mendapat badge sendiri untuk di unlock khas di Kuala Lumpur! Bangga sial!

Lepas ini, hopefully kita akan dapat listkan banyak lagi bandar menarik di seluruh Malaysia termasuk Penang, Melaka, Johor Bahru, Ipoh, Kota Kinabalu dan Kuching to begin with.

Usaha ini sememangnya tak akan bermakna kalau bukan kerana sokongan Twitterjaya dan Foursquarers Malaysia - so dengan itu, WE DID IT! Malaysia BOLEH!

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World Cup 2010 badges

Some of you might already have this, but mungkin ada yang belum. I promised a part by part bit on helping you guys unlock badges on Foursquare (again, if you don't know look it up by going to FOURSQUARE - click it and read).

So here's one that is REALLY easy to get. It's called the World Cup 2010 badge (there are four in total, but this is easiest to get and I'll get to the others in a while).

All you have to do to get this badge, is send a shout out (no need to check-in) either Gooooooooooooooooaalllll or Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (doesn't matter how many o's or a's or z's) and immediately you will get the badge. Simple isn't it?

And the Zzzzzzzzzzz is supposed to be like that FUCKING-IRRITATING-OUGHT-TO-BE-BANNED sound of the vuvuzelas.

Don't you just love 'em... *mumbles more potty language*

Now here's one more.

This is the Bing Home Turf badge. It's easy to get too. First, of course you must be logged into your Foursquare. Du-uh! Then CLICK HERE where you MUST follow Bing's profile.

After you've done that, when a team is playing shout “Go” followed by the country name on two separate days and you get your badge! Easy isn't it? Now that we're in the semifinals, you have three more matches beginning later tonight and tomorrow before the final to get the badge.

Not too hard too is it?

Please not that you MUST be following the Bing profile on Foursquare you shout out. Also, it must be during a match, it must be done over two days (now meaning different matches) and it MUST be case sensitive. So if you'r watching the game later tonight for example. you would have to shout, 'Go Uruguay' or 'Go Netherlands'. Get it?

Simple... that's two badges you've gotten just based on shout-out. Shout-out based badges are easiest to get. During the NBA finals, the Lakers and Celtics badges were the obtainable the same way by shouting 'Go Lakers' or 'Go Celtics'. Sadly those who missed it - they're already inactive.

Now there are two more badges related to the World Cup. I'm telling now since the World Cup is going to end and there is an urgency to get those badges NOW before they become Inactive.

Like the Bing badge, first thing you have to do, is follow the CNN (click it, people!) profile on Foursquare.

After you've done that, you're ready to get the two badges. Now these are NOT easy as they're location specific. I'll explain that below. The first is the Super Fan badge.

To get this badge you need to check in three times at pubs listed on the CNN profile page that you just followed. Now... since there are none in Kuala Lumpur, don't ask me how you're going to get it. Either scoot off to a country that has a pub in the listings - OR (and some might frown on this) do a remote check-in. I will not teach on remote check-ins or scripts. That - is up to you and your moral standing on whether it's wrong or not as some would call that cheating (though in all fairness, Foursquare doesn't seem to have a problem with that since it allows their clients branding to be more widespread, which is of course loved by the clients).

And how bad can it be, right? Comparing with how some people check-in at the stupidest places just to get a Mayorship like their house, bedroom or toilets. But I'll leave that debate for later.

The next badge in the World Cup series is...the South Africa Explorer badge.

Like the Super Fan badge, this is location specific. This badge is for three check-ins at the World Cup... in South Africa! Again, either you get on a plane and fly there to do it, or play 'Jumper' - which is a term most of us use for those who check-in when they're not exactly in that location.

So that's the World Cup badge series. Good luck to you guys. For those of you stuck in locations not listed, such as anywhere in Malaysia, at least you got two of the four badges now.

Me? I got four. Heh!

Sorry this entry bosan sikit, espeially for those not interested in Foursquare. Finishing a lot of work for the past few hours (try eight!) and trying to get some sleep as tomorrow, I'm meeting Usher. Yeay! Not too big a fan of his, but kinda like his music (again.. just not a super fanatical fan).

More on Foursquare soon... and more on Usher too in next entry.

PS - Check out the other tutorial on how to unlock more badges. This is the second part of many. The first was the Groupie badge. Just check older entries from I think two days ago.

PPS - If you got the badge from my tips, just leave a thank you in the Comments section. Or any queries if you have any.

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Things you'll never have

Ok so the last Foursquare badge entry was a favourite with a lot of you. I'm glad I could have helped so many of you get the Groupie badge.

So now ... after all the endless pujuk rayu and so on... I'm going to start occasional entries to show you guys how to unlock badges - one by one. I'll give your more details of what you need to do to unlock the badges (such as number of check-ins and other conditions and such).

Again, this is based on personal experience since I started Foursquaring on Feb 17 this year which makes it almost five months now. Again, if you don't have me on Foursquare, just CLICK HERE and add me up.

As you can see... much of the badges I've acquired - 84 at last count are nice. Quite nice.. especially since quite a few are inactive now. Yeap... Foursquare has had A LOT of badges in existence.

75 of which are no longer active or in the case of some like the first badge below, the BFF badge, was never activated in the first place. Then there are the event sensitive ones which lasted as long as the event, those that have been replaced by new ones (like the Apple one), as well as surprise badges (like the Team COCO one at Bonaroo which I was so effing lucky to get by chance).

So these are the badges - you'll NEVER have (if you haven't unlocked them). My regret is that I'll never be able to get the Marc Jacobs Fashion Victim and the Show Hopper for Fashion Week which has a heel. Damn! Fine additions to my collection indeed.

So.... give me a little bit of time and within the next couple of days, I'll begin the series on how to unlock the badges, one by one. And yes, you don't even need a jet-setting lifestyle to do it.

Speaking of which, I'm going Bangkok on Friday for a week! Hurrah!

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