Top 3 Foursquare Badge Lists

by M. Elizabeth Williams on Aug.02, 2010, under foursquare

mile high badge The last time I counted, there were 198 Foursquare badges available for the avid collectors such as myself. Imagine my surprise and glee when I fired up my laptop this morning and found out that now there’s 199!

Meet the “Mile High Badge”!

To earn the “Mile High Badge” (pictured above), you’ve got to be on Gogo in-flight internet on onboard a Gogo-equipped airplane. Check into Foursquare from the plane and you’re golden!
– Jaunted.com

After checking out the new badge and lamenting that my membership in the other Mile High Club doesn’t count, I decided to check out some of my favorite sites for looking up Foursquare badge information. After going through about twenty or so, three rose to the top as the creme de la creme of Foursquare badge information, perfect for anyone such as myself who will spend a day in a city on a Foursquare scavenger hunt, desperately trying to collect as many badges in one day as possible.

http://tonyfelice.wordpress.com/foursquare/: As of 1:00 PM EST, this was the only site I regularly check to have the Mile High Badge listed. Tony keeps this lists as up-to-date as humanly possible, but if you want to get specific instructions for how to get your hands on a badge, you’ll have to go somewhere else.
http://www.4squarebadges.com/foursquare-badge-list/ That “somewhere else” by the way is 4SquareBadges.com, a complete Foursquare devotee site with detailed information confirmed by users on what to do to get your hands on the precious, precious badges we all so desire. This is probably my first stop when looking up badge info, but as of 1:15 PM EST, they still didn’t have Mile High Club listed.
http://thekruser.com/foursquare-badges/ TheKruser.com’s list of Foursquare badges isn’t as comprehensive as the first two sites, and the WordPress Theme they use along with the style of the post can be a little grating at times, but I love the organizational structure of the site — badges are organized by general and the specific location you must be in (or event you must attend) to get a badge. I’d definitely check in here if 4SquareBadges.com left you questioning where you need to be to get a badge.