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I wouldn't trust Facebook (or Google places) with my checkins. My Foursquare friends are a select group of people I know well, isolated from other network group

• tatsuke95 15y ago
  "Also, what happened to do one thing and do it well?" This is an oft-missed point when discussing these tech services. Foursquare is a cool little product that many people find fun and interesting. It's done well, and within that context is fine. But what's wrong with these companies earning a few hundred grand in profit and maintaining a small, stable company? Instead, VCs throw money at them like it's going out of style, and we lavish the founders with platitudes like they invented electricity or cured cancer. In that context, of course they're in trouble. It's a check-in game for crying out loud. Last I heard, they had a valuation well over half a billion dollars. Really? So, in reality, they're not doing anything wrong. But our expectations for the next-big-thing are certainly out of whack.
  • phillmv 15y ago
    > Instead, VCs throw money at them like it's going out of style, and we lavish the founders with platitudes like they invented electricity or cured cancer. YOU KNOW WHAT'S COOL? A BILLION DOLLARS > Last I heard, they had a valuation well over half a billion dollars. Luckily for us, interest rates are unlikely to go up in the next year so we might ride this sucker out for a little longer.
  • po 15y ago
    It's a check-in game for crying out loud. Not really. It may have started that way, and that part may still exist in the application, but that's not why most people use it.
• rokhayakebe 15y ago
  Do one thing well means fix one problem very well; if check in alone doesn't solve the problem anymore you may want to rethink the solution.