Yeah, see how well the gamification of HN worked out? "Gamification" is the new "viral." It'll make a lot of people major consulting bank, but it's not going t

Yeah, see how well the gamification of HN worked out? "Gamification" is the new "viral." It'll make a lot of people major consulting bank, but it's not going to create a lot of high quality content or revenue or whatever. I write this a couple hours after returning from lunch, where, as I was checking in to Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market on Foursquare, I asked myself, "What the FUCK am I doing?! Who cares?!" I'm this close to removing Foursquare from my phone. The recent article on ReadWriteWeb on the coming death of the check-in is spot on. I'm someone who lives in a dense urban area, who checks in because I'm hoping against hope that maybe someday, some's going to text me after seeing my check-in with a "Dude! You're at Bob and Barbara's drinking a special! I am so there!" But it hasn't happened in the two plus years I've been playing with Foursquare on and off.