Celebrity chef and successful restaurateur Mario Batali has popular restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, and now frequent visitors can be rewarded with a Mario Batali Foursquare badge. Plus, chef Batali will offer specials in each of his 15 restaurants specifically for Foursquare users. He'll also be leaving personal tips at each location, suggesting favorite dishes.
To earn the badge, first follow Mario Batali on Foursquare and check into one of his restaurants.
Flying this holiday? You're not alone. While properly packing your bag and making sure all of your gadgets and gizmos are presented correctly to help you make it through airport security a bit faster, there's still a chance you'll be asked to step aside and submit to a pat-down.
Not only can you be touched by TSA on Loopt, but Foursquare has added a jolly good badge to its lineup for the busy travel season — the Baggage Handler. How do you earn it? Find out after the break.
Speaking of the location-based service Foursquare, there are now two new badges for everyone to unlock. The Super Duper Swarm and Epic Swarm badges reward users checking into venues with 500 or 1,000 others, respectively.
The original Swarm badge was created to reward users who checked into a venue with 50 different users. Super Swarm — for 250 users — was created after the Swarm badge was deemed simple to obtain. And now, thanks to the increasing popularity of the service, Foursquare had to introduce two more crowd-based badges.
Generally, it's fairly easy to unlock even the Super Swarm badge at a concert, sports game, or other major, crowded event where there's likely to be many Foursquare users. I'm curious where the first Epic Swarm will be!
