Foursquare Co-founder Dennis Crowley: 'We're Like Eight Years Into This Experiment'

Techies have been calling location-based mobile application Foursquare the next big thing since last year’s South By Southwest Conference.

While the service counted only about 50,000 users last year, this year the Foursquare’s user base has shot up to about 540,000, said co-founder Dennis Crowley today.

“We’re like eight years into this experiment,” he said, referring in part to dodgeball.com, the mobile service he created that was acquired by Google in 2005, and has since been shut down.

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