Reading ReadWriteWeb’s post today talking about Foursquare’s revamping their website and making it a lot more useful made me want to pay attention again to the post-hyped check-in app. The joy of Foursquare was always in the smartphone app and never in the website but that seems to have changed. Enough “adults” have told me how much they thought Foursquare (and Facebook Places) was a waste of time…”who wants to share every place they go, for #$% sake?” But with the new site, if you give it access to your geolocation, you can see a slew of happening restaurants, bars, bakeries and shops that are popular. The service show some real smarts by letting you know what is good in real time by being both location-sensitive and time-sensitive. What you see around lunch will be different at night. As Yelp has started to loses it’s value by people gaming it with overzealous and paid-for comments, Foursquare is quickly becoming one of my favorite ways to find goodness in San Francisco. It could also be really good for people who are traveling to a new city and want to discover a restaurant or shop. Cheers to Foursquare and I’ll be interested in seeing how much traffic to the site increases on Compete.com.
