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I have been thinking about writing this for the past few weeks and my buddy Om gave me the shove to do it yesterday with his post “FourSquare’s Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats”
This post is absolute killer to write given my past positivity and possible giddiness on location based services.
Om tells Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley “that he has a problem – even hardcore users and fans like me are getting bored with Foursquare and finding it hard to constantly check-in”
I think the problem is way bigger than that, way way bigger, I dont want to “check in”, I want to know right now if a friend is near me, if I am buying something that is cheaper nearby by or are there any specials nearby. This just isnt happening at the speed the rest of technology is moving at. Check-in just isnt enough for me, it make no change to my mobile behavior and ”John recommends the ribs” is not enough for me to keep trying to love location at the moment.
There are a couple of interesting things coming though and one of my “likes” is MyTown which allows me to check into products as well as the normal location stuff, whats interesting if I check into products I could be offered better deals on those products, this is a really interesting developement in G-Lo.
Am I down on location?
Absolutely not, I believe that it will become part of our daily live but we really need to get the industry and @dens to move along now.
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