about time someone in the press admitted to these LBS' (current) uselessness.
Potential for being big businesses (which is exciting for the companies) but personally useless for me at the moment.
Potential for being big businesses (which is exciting for the companies) but personally useless for me at the moment.
The mayorships and badges were fun at first, too.
Ultimately, though, I decided it wasn't providing enough value for the effort I was putting into it, and stopped cold turkey.
It is hard to be enamored with tech these days when you see what people fall for.
Seems to be the direction they're headed in. I've noticed more restaurants in my area having their location tagged with something like "show this to your server for a free appetizer" and the like recently.
SCVNGR actually seems to have the most prominent tools for this kind of thing and does the best job up playing up the game aspect by throwing in some fun challenges, but just doesn't have the user base to be relevant, unfortunately.