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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Rman on May 21, 2010, 12:06:57 PM

Title: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: Rman on May 21, 2010, 12:06:57 PM

I know Cohen hates them.  But what's the general EB consensus on this things?  I made the mistake of tying them to my Facebook/Twitter account.  Not a good idea.  But they have actually helped me try more things and the meta game with the badges is kinda cool.  Right?

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Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 21, 2010, 12:13:27 PM

Didn't Cohen hate Twitter at one point? lolz

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: Rman on May 21, 2010, 12:16:12 PM

I think that was Patel and Prole.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 21, 2010, 12:21:20 PM

Ah yeah, probably. And I guess I don't have a problem with it. I wouldn't have use for it, but I can see people in metropolitan areas that like broadcasting their every move to the world liking it. Especially since there are badges. :o

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: Rman on May 21, 2010, 12:39:36 PM

Yeah.  I turned off broadcasting.  I didn't want to sound like major tool to my Twitter/FB people.  But I like because it becomes an urban playlist of sorts for your favorite hotspots.  The badges also encourage you to try new things.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: M3wThr33 on May 21, 2010, 02:38:57 PM

Gowalla is pretty bad. Their portable app doesn't allow searching by names and a lot of other parts of it are lacking. The big draw of Gowalla is the mini-geocaching added. Even devs are bitching because their API fucking sucks.
Foursquare is really all you need to invest in.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: cloudwalking on May 21, 2010, 03:01:22 PM

these were a fad here like 4 months ago, i got bored of them pretty quickly.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: Donono on May 21, 2010, 03:56:49 PM

Yeah I used Foursquare for like two hours and then never again.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 21, 2010, 09:29:19 PM

I'm afraid it'll just confirm my suspicion that nobody finds me worth bothering to stalk and harass.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: tiesto on May 22, 2010, 10:27:49 AM

My friends are all hooked on it, and they're trying to get me to buy a Blackberry and participate... I don't feel like I need to broadcast to the world where I am at all times.

Title: Re: Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?
Post by: Beezy on May 22, 2010, 03:47:19 PM

A couple of my friends are on foursquare. I don't think I go out enough to use it.