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Sorry, has check-in been "won" by Foursquare now that Gowalla and Facebook have bowed out, or is it actually the case that check-in is just dead?

by newobj 15y ago

dmix 15y ago
Check-ins are just going for a swim in the Chasm: http://www.relativelydigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/chasm.gif http://www.relativelydigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/...
- teej 15y ago
  I appreciate the graphic, but Foursquare is way beyond early adopters at this point. My mom has been asking me about foursquare and within a month it's going to eclipse FarmVille. http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare%2C+farmville&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2011&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare%2C+farmville&c...
  - untog 15y ago
    But those graphs demonstrate that it'll only overtake FarmVille because FarmVille is declining. Foursquare really hasn't moved much. I live in NYC, and know a ton of people that use Foursquare. I know people in Vancouver and London that have never heard of the thing. I assure you that they have heard of FarmVille.
    - sunchild 15y ago
      From my grumpy old man perspective, Foursquare and Farmville are the top-most "noise generators" in the social stream.
chime 15y ago
Check-in has gone dormant for now because for most of the world's mobile users, there is no real benefit to checking-in to a place. The action of checking-in can be quite powerful if different systems can react to it. I'd love to check in to a fast-food drive-thru on my phone, get a meal menu customized to the particular location, place my order, pay for it, and just drive up to the window. Or check-in to a stadium/theater/museum and get a customized program guide. I don't want to download a new app for each company, location, or event. I don't want to go to their website. I should check-in to a place using a single app, and the relevant services should perform the most appropriate actions. It's not going to happen right away but eventually it will.
- alttab 15y ago
  If you want to "check in" to a drive-thru, how is this different than say, going to chipotle.com and ordering online? Your description sounds like "an app that conglomerates all things I would do on a company website into one." Obviously what those "things" are are different from person to person - there would need to be more focus. Plus you'd have to integrate into every system you partnered with - which is significant development overhead for each new feature. It kind of sounds like you are suggesting that each company/store/whatever conform to some generalized platform, whose APIs can be auto-discovered or auto-pruned with GPS coordinate input. This is almost along the lines of "everything should have an API - even my toaster." Theres someone out there trying that very thing but I forgot the name of it.
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Sorry, has check-in been "won" by Foursquare now that Gowalla and Facebook have bowed out, or is it actually the case that check-in is just dead?

by newobj 15y ago

Sorry, has check-in been "won" by Foursquare now that Gowalla and Facebook have bowed out, or is it actually the case that check-in is just dead?

dmix 15y ago

Check-ins are just going for a swim in the Chasm: http://www.relativelydigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/chasm.gif http://www.relativelydigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/...

teej 15y ago
I appreciate the graphic, but Foursquare is way beyond early adopters at this point. My mom has been asking me about foursquare and within a month it's going to eclipse FarmVille. http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare%2C+farmville&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2011&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare%2C+farmville&c...
- untog 15y ago
  But those graphs demonstrate that it'll only overtake FarmVille because FarmVille is declining. Foursquare really hasn't moved much. I live in NYC, and know a ton of people that use Foursquare. I know people in Vancouver and London that have never heard of the thing. I assure you that they have heard of FarmVille.
  - sunchild 15y ago
    From my grumpy old man perspective, Foursquare and Farmville are the top-most "noise generators" in the social stream.

chime 15y ago

Check-in has gone dormant for now because for most of the world's mobile users, there is no real benefit to checking-in to a place. The action of checking-in can be quite powerful if different systems can react to it. I'd love to check in to a fast-food drive-thru on my phone, get a meal menu customized to the particular location, place my order, pay for it, and just drive up to the window. Or check-in to a stadium/theater/museum and get a customized program guide. I don't want to download a new app for each company, location, or event. I don't want to go to their website. I should check-in to a place using a single app, and the relevant services should perform the most appropriate actions. It's not going to happen right away but eventually it will.

alttab 15y ago
If you want to "check in" to a drive-thru, how is this different than say, going to chipotle.com and ordering online? Your description sounds like "an app that conglomerates all things I would do on a company website into one." Obviously what those "things" are are different from person to person - there would need to be more focus. Plus you'd have to integrate into every system you partnered with - which is significant development overhead for each new feature. It kind of sounds like you are suggesting that each company/store/whatever conform to some generalized platform, whose APIs can be auto-discovered or auto-pruned with GPS coordinate input. This is almost along the lines of "everything should have an API - even my toaster." Theres someone out there trying that very thing but I forgot the name of it.

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