Comments on: everyone’s a local (somewhere) http://btrandolph.com/2010/01/getting-local-on-android/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss thoughts on (mostly) social media Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: btrandolph http://btrandolph.com/2010/01/getting-local-on-android/comment-page-1/#comment-849 btrandolph Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:01:36 +0000 http://btrandolph.com/?p=1393#comment-849 thanks for the comment eric. as one of the local foursquare emperors (mayor's just not big enough!), your insights are appreciated. truth be told, I started out writing this post about some neighborhood bulletin board services that I saw on readwriteweb, but got distracted by the yelp's intro of check ins (ooh, shiny). I'll definitely investigate the review features on foursquare you mention - I hadn't seen those (iphone only?). in addition, yelp hasn't updated the droid app with check ins yet, so I wrote the post based on the existing app, which is more comparable with google labs' places directory than foursquare. when yelp on the droid updates, I will write an updated post featuring all three, or at least yelp vs foursquare... thanks for the comment eric. as one of the local foursquare emperors (mayor’s just not big enough!), your insights are appreciated. truth be told, I started out writing this post about some neighborhood bulletin board services that I saw on readwriteweb, but got distracted by the yelp’s intro of check ins (ooh, shiny). I’ll definitely investigate the review features on foursquare you mention – I hadn’t seen those (iphone only?). in addition, yelp hasn’t updated the droid app with check ins yet, so I wrote the post based on the existing app, which is more comparable with google labs’ places directory than foursquare. when yelp on the droid updates, I will write an updated post featuring all three, or at least yelp vs foursquare…

]]> By: Eric Andersen http://btrandolph.com/2010/01/getting-local-on-android/comment-page-1/#comment-848 Eric Andersen Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:51:05 +0000 http://btrandolph.com/?p=1393#comment-848 Great post, Todd! I haven't used the Yelp app much before, so it's hard to say. I guess the overall pros would be, reviews/ratings and better map integration, cons would be no gaming aspect. So I can see that RWW might think they could co-exist. But frankly, ratings is something Foursquare could easily add, whereas Yelp couldn't easily add the gaming aspects. I should also mention, Foursquare already links to the Yelp review, so it's half there already. The only other comment I'll make is, with your 3-way comparison, it might be nice to have a literal side-by-side comparison of the three services - showing what features each has, what platform each is on, and what the screens look like. Would be a powerful "at a glance" way to see what each provides. Just my $0.02. Great post, Todd! I haven’t used the Yelp app much before, so it’s hard to say. I guess the overall pros would be, reviews/ratings and better map integration, cons would be no gaming aspect. So I can see that RWW might think they could co-exist. But frankly, ratings is something Foursquare could easily add, whereas Yelp couldn’t easily add the gaming aspects. I should also mention, Foursquare already links to the Yelp review, so it’s half there already.

The only other comment I’ll make is, with your 3-way comparison, it might be nice to have a literal side-by-side comparison of the three services – showing what features each has, what platform each is on, and what the screens look like. Would be a powerful “at a glance” way to see what each provides. Just my $0.02.

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