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Foursquare <\/a>has added two heavily requested features to its popular iPhone app that should make the service significantly more social: photos and comments.<\/p>\n The new features let you attach photos to checkins, tips and venues, and add comments to the checkins of your friends. These social updates, released just in time for the holidays, will also get enmeshed within the rest of your\u00a0Foursquare With photos, you\u2019ll be prompted to add one as you check in, in much the same manner that you\u2019re already prompted to add a \u201cshout\u201d with each checkin. You can then continue to add photos after you check in that will be added to the checkin detail page \u2014 this page is also where comment activity happens.<\/p>\n Photos and comments will stay mostly contained to your immediate circle of friends. Photos associated with checkins will only be visible to your Foursquare friends and the other social networks you share them with. Comments, however, are only viewable by your Foursquare friends. So, should you share a photo checkin with\u00a0Facebook and\u00a0Twitter, the photo and the checkin will be visible but the comments can only be seen by a logged in user who you\u2019re friends with.<\/p>\n As for photos associated with tips and venues, those will be public to all users with the intention of adding richer context to your picks and pans.<\/p>\n \u201cThe community of users that we have are already super comfortable with checkins, so adding something like this to that mix should be pretty powerful,\u201d says Foursquare\u2019s head of product Alex Rainert. Rainert believes photos and comments will stimulate activity in and outside the application and better support the fluid exchange of information.<\/p>\n Foursquare also hopes these new features will help transform the way you think about the service and your location-based activity. Eventually, the startup would like to present your personal archive \u2014 photos, checkins and comments \u2014 in a more visually arresting manner, according to Rainert. \u201cThere are interesting things you can do when people create media at places,\u201d he says. \u201cWe hope to build creative ways to let people browse and share that history in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Rainert stressed the fact that photos and comments have been in the works for months, but were pushed out in an accelerated fashion to get them to users before the holidays. Several enhancements are already in the works, he says. Users should soon have the ability to export photos to Facebook and\u00a0Flickr, better track comments and more easily access old photos, for example.<\/p>\n Today, however,\u00a0mobile photo sharing fans already using\u00a0Foodspotting,\u00a0Instagram and\u00a0Picplz, will be gifted with the ability to share their photos \u2014 not just their checkins \u2014 with Foursquare.<\/p>\n Android\u00a0users can expect photos and comments sometime this week; BlackBerry owners should expect a photo and comment compatible version of their own in January.<\/p>\n Foursquare has added two heavily requested features to its popular iPhone app that should make the service significantly more social: photos and comments. The new features let you attach photos to checkins, tips and venues, and add comments to the checkins of your friends. 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