Clockwork Active Media Systems

In May 2009, I added Clockwork as a Foursquare location before one of our spring parties. It's been fun watching the number of users steadily increase over the last year, and seeing all the cool ways people are using it. (But, seriously — what's up with people adding their homes as "locations"? That's just weird!)

It's also been fascinating to watch businesses tap into Foursquare with special Mayor offers (which are now an official part of the Foursquare service offering).

It's not like we're a restaurant that can offer free drinks or appetizers to our Mayor, but we thought it would be fun to honor the Clockwork Mayor in some way, so we decided to dedicate a page on our website to the current Mayor. So now, without further ado, we give you...drumroll please...the Clockwork Mayor.

Ahem, yes. We know that — as of this writing — the Mayor is a Clockwork employee (a certain Mr. Ryan Evans). We've updated our social media policy to include a ban on employee Foursquare check-ins, and the first person to unseat Ryan will get a fabulous prize. In fact, anyone who stops at Clockwork and can prove they're the Mayor will get cool Clockwork swag (From whatever we have in stock. We've usually got t-shirts, coffee mugs, water bottles and — of course — the infamous Clockwork notebooks.)

Now, here's the deal: CHEATING IS LAME. You should actually walk in the door here to check in. Don't be doing drive-by check-ins or we reserve the right to publicly shame you. I mean, heck, we know the lengths people will go to get their hands on one of our notebooks but let's keep it clean, people!

Thanks to Rett Martin for coming up with this awesome idea, and to him and Selah Ben-Haim for implementing it!