Since getting its funding late last year, Foursquare has been spending much of its time rapidly expanding the list of cities the service is available in. But the reality was that it couldn't expand this way fast enough. So it should be no surprise that they're throwing that all away. Yes, as the service has officially announced today (as CNET scooped a few days ago), you can now use Foursquare anywhere in the world. And there's a lot more they've been working on as well.
Of the new things, perhaps most notable is that the service is now on a wide variety of platforms. While it's been out for the iPhone and Android for some time now, the Palm Pre finally has an app, as does BlackBerry, which will officially launch next week (5,000 people are currently testing it, including some TechCrunch staffers). Also of note is that Foursquare is completely redesigning both its website and its iPhone app. We've been using an early build of the newest version of the iPhone app (1.5) for a few weeks now, and it definitely looks nicer and seems to run more smoothly. This latest version, which should hit the App Store soon, will officially remove the city-based restrictions and improved the location-finding abilities of the app
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