Location based services like Foursquare require users to be successful. No user base = no service. I was pretty big on Foursquare for a while but the whole earn

Location based services like Foursquare require users to be successful. No user base = no service. I was pretty big on Foursquare for a while but the whole earning badges for checking in places thing became a chore more-so than it did fun and I eventually stopped using it. The problem with location based services is they require effort and if you don't reward that effort or reward it half-assed then it will just get old and eventually people will stop using it. That's what happened to Foursquare I do believe. As it has been pointed out, location aware is the future. Your phone does the work for you, you don't need to open an app the app alerts you when a predetermined action or event triggers an alert. "Alert me when a train that stops at my desired stop is in the area between 5.30pm and 6.30pm", etc.