Is Foursquare a check-in app, a guidebook, an API or? You can only be one — I learned that hard lesson from my days at Flickr, where we also had three options: a social network, a media platform or a photo layer for the internet.
Joshua Nguyen in Thoughts on Foursquare, which starts as a discussion of the Techcrunch article of their new version, but which expands into a bigger, and very worthwhile, examination of what Foursquare’s future is. (via blech)