Why MyTown Is Bigger Than Foursquare & Gowalla ( MyTown Iphone app not available in Canada )

Location-based social networking services like Foursquare and Gowalla may eat up a lot of techie mindshare, but they still have very few users — roughly 150,000 and 50,000, respectively. However, by virtue of product design and social norms, users are discouraged from cheating when it comes to the services’ social gaming elements, so the value of their information is high.

On the other hand, an iPhone app called MyTown, which also features a location-based check-in system game, acquired 250,000 users within just two weeks of launching earlier this month.

via gigaom.com

( MyTown Iphone app not available in Canada )

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MyTown Hits 1.5 Million Location-Based Gamers; Ups The Social With Version 3.0

While Foursquare and Gowalla garner much of the buzz around location right now, Booyah’s MyTown continues to garner many of the actual users. In fact, the service has crossed 1.5 million users. And it’s gaining them at an incredible rate of 130,000 new users a week. Compare this to Foursquare, which during SXSW crossed 600,000 total users. And MyTown is showing no signs of slowing down, with another new version of the app now available.

via techcrunch.com

It's like real world monopoly for your iphone

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