* Quick update: Marshall has written a nice post on this same topic over on RWW.*
The backlash against social check-in services like Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite, Rummble, Yelp, PlacePop, etc. is beginning.
A few days ago, BusinessWeek proclaimed that check-in type services have “limited appeal.”  Last week, Andrew Hyde of TechStars committed Location Based Service Suicide.    And [...]

A new social check-in app called PlacePop quietly joined the social checkin space over the weekend.
This is what they have to offer so far:
- The ability to check in to a place
- Aggregated reviews and tweets from Yelp and Twitter
- The ability to add a photo (oddly lacking from Foursquare and Gowalla, but present on Yelp)
- [...]

The New York Times is reporting that Foursquare and Bravo will announce a distribution deal tomorrow in which more than 500 locations, restaurants, and venues with associations with Bravo TV shows will carry their own custom Bravo badges within the Foursquare experience.  Additionally, Bravo television personalities have added “tips” for a number of Bravo locations.
Bravo’s [...]

Well, that was fast.
Just as features like user profiles, status updates, and friend graphs have become standard fare on social media sites, it appears that the social check-in will soon follow.
With the entrance of big fish like Yelp into the social check-in space, and the rumored entrance of even bigger fish like Facebook and Twitter, [...]

Twitter’s new Local Trends function on Twitter.com is basically meaningless. It’s full of spam (just as the global Trending Topics is) and really isn’t all that interesting because: 1. lots of the same trends go across the limited number of places Twitter is offering right now; and 2. there is no context for the user [...]

I spent some time this weekend playing with MyTown – an iPhone app with a location component that is claiming more than 500K users.  You may know them from blog titles such as “Foursquare Who? Gowalla What?” that reference MyTown’s reported 500K users and 31M check-ins.
So what’s the deal?  Is MyTown really kicking the collective asses [...]

Here are a few posts that caught my eye today:

Andrew Hyde commits social location suicide after getting stalked.
Foursquare rolls out a Blackberry App
Only 0.23% of tweets geotagged
Bing maps rolls out some new stuff like local events
Nokia offering free navigation services with Nokia phones

Companies like Foursquare and Gowalla are trying to build businesses – and venture businesses no less – based on helping people share their real world locations.
Local business review juggernaut Yelp recently bolted on social location check-ins to their iPhone app.  Twitter and Facebook are almost certain to turn on some sort of location based functionality [...]

The social location landscape changed dramatically this weekend.
Yelp, the 800 pound gorilla of local social media, revamped its popular iPhone app in order to let users check in to locations.
So how will this affect social location services like Foursquare and Gowalla?
I think it’s a devastating development for them, a brutal punch in the gut.  It’s [...]

Just a few short hours after we said, “Word has it they are expanding to “everywhere” this month”, Foursquare went ahead and beat our expectations and just announced that users can now check-in from any location worldwide.

Of course, users in new areas will still have to create locations in their city (which still isn’t ideal), [...]