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I’m the mayor. So what? (compete.com)
3 points by jamesjyu on Dec 27, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Finally an article by a non-fanboy about the real world. I am glad that their traffic is getting flat because there has to be more innovation in location based services industry other than pointless 'check-ins'


What Foursquare and GoWalla are missing is the payment portion of things. It's a lot more interesting knowing when you've bought something repeatedly relative to merely knowing that you were kind of nearby.

(Hint: anyone from Foursquare or GoWalla, we're happy to talk!)




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