Hey everyone,

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an entry here. I’ve been really trying hard to re-build the current site and make it more engaging the user. Based on the news story today about Foursquare adding a feature to let you know how far off you are from obtaining mayorship - I felt it was important add a response to this new story.

Here at WWIBM - we are NOT a investor sponsored company nor have 10 to 100 developers working on this product. It’s just me - Greg Avola - and I built this product for myself and the community. I thought it would a great way to engage the users of the foursquare to plan your attack on getting the mayorships you want.

Now that foursquare has released their own version of this feature - everyone is saying what will happen to WWIBM? The short answer - nothing. We are not a competitor to foursquare. We just enhance the experience of foursquare to users. That is what the site is designed and developed to do and we will continue to do that as long as the users enjoy it.

Coming in September - we will have a brand new site with new feature including the ability to vote on public shares, better sharing options, and faster response time. Foursquare has also indicated to us that they are going to allow this new data to be sourced by the API which means we can do more stuff about this - including sorting by number of times it will take you to be mayor and a lot more.

Thanks again for your support and we can’t wait to show you what’s new!

Greg
Creator of When Will I Be Mayor

Hello everyone! I hope you having a good weekend. Over at WWIBM, I’ve been cooking up something good for you - based on all your feedback. Today - I’ve release some new features that hopefully will get your pretty excited to use When Will I Be Mayor for your foursquare needs.

Stats - We’ve added a nifty feature that allows you track the statistics of your check-ins. I know what your thinking - “Doesn’t foursquare already have this on their website?” The short answer is: Yes - however, these stats are bit more details - by basically telling you what type of venues you go to in the last 250 check-ins. Check it out by clicking the stats icon in the top banner to view your stats.

Search By Venue, and Venue ID Some people requested the ability to search by venue ID. Since we only previously had the ability to search by venue name and location - sometimes your results wouldn’t get you want you wanted. Now just enter the ID of the Venue you want information on you’ll get your check-in information! Share your Race to Be Mayor! - Now you can share your foursquare mayor-ship quest with your friends in real-time with When Will I Be Mayor! All you need to do click the share icon at the venue - and you’ll presented with a short URL (http://wwibm.me) to share with your friends through Facebook or Twitter. This updates in real-time, so as you check-in - your count will get bigger! Don’t want to share it anymore? Head over to your settings page, and delete it! Add as many shares are you want! Go nuts!

We hope you’ll enjoy these features - and as they are new - let us know if anything goes bonkers by sending a tweet to @mayorplease.

Thanks Greg

We realize that privacy is important to everyone - especially when you are dealing with a geo-location application. That is why I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce our privacy policy for WWIBM. Here are a few notes that hopefully will keep you at ease:

We do not store any historical data on your check-ins from foursquare. This means that your check-in data is not housed on WWIBM servers - it stays on Foursquare’s server. So rest assured that your data is safe. This tool is only used for visualization purposes. The only data that WWIBM stores is the following:

— Your email address

— Your username that you choose at signup

— Foursquare Token and Secret

— Venue names/IDs that you have monitored

That’s pretty much it! I know that most you might have already detected this - but I wanted to make it clear that we are not storing any username/passwords or any history data from foursquare. All calls to foursquare purely done through the API.

For more information on our privacy policy go to http://whenwillibemayor.com/privacy

It’s been about 6 days since 2.0 is live, and here I am already pushing out a new feature - and its search.

Now you can search a venue and a location and get the mayor and your check-in history for that venue. While it may be a small feature - you might curious and want to see is the mayor of the world’s favorite venues like Twitter HQ, or Times Square. The possibilities are endless!

Want a feature added to When Will I Be Mayor? Send us tweet on Twitter @mayorplease

• Greg