I’d heard about the Foursquare website for awhile before it ever became available in my hometown of Indianapolis, IN. When it finally arrived here in Indianapolis and they added it to their city list, I immediately got more active on the site.

Prior to using Foursquare I was a fairly avid user of the similar website for geo-location updates with Brightkite. My initial thoughts were that these two sites were competitors of each other, but after using Foursquare for awhile, they’re really not, which I’ve written about earlier on this site.
Foursquare focuses more on what you’re doing and encouraging …read more

I’ve been playing with Foursquare lately since they added Indianapolis to their list of cities. I was waiting on it to come to the city and now it’s here. I’m not sure it’s really what I expected at all.

I’ve been using Brightkite for quite awhile and honestly I thought that Foursquare and Brightkite would be competitors, but they’re really not. In my opinion Brightkite is purely a geo-location update service that allows you to check-in so people can know where you are and potential meet you out somewhere.
Brightkite is tightly integrated into Google mapping functionality and you can lookup …read more