Yelp updates with check-ins, Foursquare not happy

Brightkite ++

Gowalla is so much better than both. Plus it uses GPS and looks much better. Just my opinion.

I use Centrl - which has way more features than these apps - and you dont need an account to use it! I'm sick of creating new accounts and sending personal info to all these dubious social network entrepreneurs.

Brightkite was out before any of the above mentioned Social Apps....they have had a check-in feature from the beginning. The idea of a check-in feature isn't original to Foursquare which means they are basically replicating the functionality of Brightkite. They don't have much to complain about IMHO.

They should move on and just deal with competition. All web browsers have Tabbed browsing but we didn't see any of them crying about someone copying the other....whatever Foursquare, get over it!!

Yeah, I'd have to go with Gowalla — it's funner than Foursquare, IMO — and better looking.

Announcing where you're Yelping from is a pretty natural extension of the app's functionality. It's a bit hard for FourSquare to complain TOO bitterly.

Whatever, they both suck. Gowalla is where it's at.

You can almost always tell who is the imitator and who has been imitated. The original is usually the more well thought out (even though Crowley claims its not even that)... Beyond the functional arguments, look at the proportions, the icons, the fonts, and the adherence to iPhone UI doctrine.

To paraphrase Dr. Malcolm, "I'll tell you the problem with the iPhone app design power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You looked at what what Foursquare had done and you took a next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could..." Geniuses might be going too far, but you get the gist.