{"id":2199,"date":"2011-04-13T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2011-04-13T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:22:30","slug":"2011-the-year-the-check-in-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/13\/2011-the-year-the-check-in-died\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 “2011: The Year the Check-in Died”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via ReadWriteWeb<\/a>:<\/p>\n

All of this doesn’t mean, however, that Gowalla, Foursquare, MyTown, Loopt and all the services with check-ins at their core are necessarily going out of business. It\u00a0does<\/em> mean they need to find a way to deliver deep value to people\u00a0beyond<\/em> the check-in. And unless Facebook and Google provide more value than they currently do, their check-in services will languish as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…while I was at one of these LBS players last year (as a community manager), we knew the check-in was going away. Everyone knew that. Facebook’s Places feature killed \/ commodotized the check in. Every LBS service knows this. How will they evolve?<\/p>\n

Good article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via ReadWriteWeb: All of this doesn’t mean, however, that Gowalla, Foursquare, MyTown, Loopt and all the services with…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-zt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1003,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/why-i-love-brightkite\/","url_meta":{"origin":2199,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Why I Love Brightkite","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As I stated in a post in late February announcing my joining Brightkite as a community manager, I could have applied to any location based social network in the world but I wanted to work at Brightkite. 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