Comments on: Calling All Bets: Who Will Win The Location Wars?

By: Jack Davis

Jack Davis — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:51:43 +0000

Foursquare is my hero when it comes to this kind of thing, it’s easy to use and that is a big plus in my book. I suppose things will get more complicated in the future, but I still prefer Foursquare.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:17 +0000

Gowalla for me.

I haven’t tried Foursquare but I’ve heard two things that turned me off almost immediately. Both of these involve GPS. First, Foursquare doesn’t require a GPS signal to determine whereabouts, so this makes cheating very easy. Second, since Foursquare requires an address for spot creation, how exactly does one create a spot in a rural area without a great deal of inaccuracy?

By: mike carey

mike carey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:45:18 +0000

I use Foursquare but see it is a silly social media time burner ! It is kind of fun to say that I am the Mayor of Fuddruckers however… lol

If Google wanted to play, they could take this market over easily with their location based suggestions and adverts.. They already have the Latitude technology that I use with my google maps, and they know all about everything and exactly where it is located. (ie- you are Bob’s Steak house- right next door is a 20% off sale on xxxx items.. )

By: Lyndon Reid

Lyndon Reid — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:30:02 +0000

What is the internet? Seriously though, they all kind of annoy me. Could be a combination of not caring who the Mayor of Ronnie’s Pizza and not realizing the real power yet.

Assemble a team of 50 friends, build something better, and have the team convince everyone to use it. Might stand a chance and it’d be worth 50MM in the end.

By: myfinancialobjectives

myfinancialobjectives — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:38:44 +0000

I tried out MyTown for a while, maybe like a month. Very disappointing. Boring, not really too many options of what you can do, and it’s almost like directed game play, you have to go in one certain direction with the game. I’ll stick with SuDoku:)

By: Suzanne Vara

Suzanne Vara — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:36:07 +0000

Lisa
Great roundup of each. I think that Facebook will do very well and then roll out how to block the location updates as it will clog up streams. Twitter -I think that people in a huff over this as with FourSquare there is a reward for checking in with some biz offering specials and the ego stroke of ousting someone as mayor and with Twitter it seems like an invasion of privacy to have our tweets localized (although people who check in on foursquare do have this tweeted). Maybe the location option is problematic to people as it part of a tweet that can be retweeted? Maybe with foursquare or gowalla you are at a place for a period of time and leave where with location tweets it is coming many times from your business or home?

I agree that the most intriguing is booyah. I am still warming up to the foursquare concept as it is not that I am not wanting people to know where I am, it it just seems like more of a popularity game.

@SuzanneVara

By: Carmen

Carmen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:58:24 +0000

Gowalla! That is all.

By: Nathan Hangen

Nathan Hangen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:35:24 +0000

I have a 4sq account, and I can’t understand, for the life of me, why it’s worth a damn. I hate hearing about “mayors,” and if I need to know where someone is…then I’ll ask them.

Might this help retailers? Probably…but location based services seem like a tall order with this technology.

For now, I’ll stick with Twitter, Facebook, and maybe Buzz.

By: Scott Stratten

Scott Stratten — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:03:50 +0000

Facebook wins, end of story. Just from sure mobile penetration (dirty). 100 million+ already checkin into their status using mobile? Thanks for comin out everyone else.

Bet anyone a night of beverages on it :-)

Great post as always

By: Aussiewebmaster

Aussiewebmaster — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:03:26 +0000

Hey Gowalla has a kangaroo in its logo who do you think I want to win