Lamar Morgan

Funny the day you invited me, so did John Powell. I had about 50 requests to accept.

So I wondered if it was tipping. They just passed 1m users. Seems low for all the chatter. Kudos to them.

Per your comment on “core”, there are very low on content, but it does prove you can get traction with very little.

I love the way they bypass the vendors in the whole hyper-local space. 1000′s of business owner are oblivious to what happening on 4SQ.

It’s great that a location owner can see all their 4SQ users. It’s easy to see how they can monetize it and how locations run contests to drive activity. Much more fun than more traditional approaches that have tried to sell merchants to get an online presence eg Merchantcircle.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/18/hyperlocal-business-directory-merchantcircle-signs-up-millionth-merchants/

4SQ is already beating MerchantCircle on Alexa/Compete rankings.

And meanwhile Google ads business listings to street maps.

Hyperlocal is heating up.

Not sure I’m going to mayor of too many places and time soon. I’ll keep watching for now.

I’ve logged in, and accepted a bunch of friend requests, but not really got into the whole checking-in thing.

Funny, but it’s quite big here in Kelowna BC in a city of 100k population.

Hope all is well.

Each of the four basic “game mechanics” offers something of potential value to the FourSquare user and something to FourSquare’s growing list of local businesses. But perhaps the biggest point: the game mechanics help to make use of the service playful and fun – even before hoards of users have embraced the service and even before the merchants have delivered more than a smattering of offers. A few services hit the market ahead of FourSquare – Brightkite is perhaps the best example. They offered “check-in” driven location-based activities with at least as much functionality as FourSquare, but without those other, simple game mechanics, there wasn’t nearly as much excitement.

Funny the day you invited me, so did John Powell. I had about 50 requests to accept.

So I wondered if it was tipping. They just passed 1m users. Seems low for all the chatter. Kudos to them.

Per your comment on “core”, there are very low on content, but it does prove you can get traction with very little.

I love the way they bypass the vendors in the whole hyper-local space. 1000′s of business owner are oblivious to what happening on 4SQ.

It’s great that a location owner can see all their 4SQ users. It’s easy to see how they can monetize it and how locations run contests to drive activity. Much more fun than more traditional approaches that have tried to sell merchants to get an online presence eg Merchantcircle.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/18/hyperlocal-business-directory-merchantcircle-signs-up-millionth-merchants/

4SQ is already beating MerchantCircle on Alexa/Compete rankings.

And meanwhile Google ads business listings to street maps.

Hyperlocal is heating up.

Not sure I’m going to mayor of too many places and time soon. I’ll keep watching for now.

I’ve logged in, and accepted a bunch of friend requests, but not really got into the whole checking-in thing.

Funny, but it’s quite big here in Kelowna BC in a city of 100k population.

Hope all is well.

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I think you’re exactly right about the mayorships and the badges: harmless fun.

I’m hesitant to make my location completely public, and I am definitely not going to spam my twitter followers evertime I use the service, much as they might like me to, but I do like knowing where I am: http://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/06/where