Google+ Threatens Foursquare with New Check-In Leaderboard
One of the first things that people usually ask Foursquare users is ‘why do you care?’ In fact, this is what people usually ask people that play FarmVille or CityVille, or even Tweet. We live in a digital world where people usually have to eat their own snap judgments within a few weeks because they delve deeper into the technology and find some interesting use.
So, in that vein, while location-based services and check-ins may not have been a big deal to Google before, it is now — they just released a Google+ check-in leaderboard with their newest version of Google Maps for Android.
The news was first broken by Engadget, who noticed that Google had included the update without even letting anyone know.
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