• Scobleizer, Friday, June 18, 2010 12:14 PM

Blogger Robert Scoble proclaims two un-hyped location-based services to be "more important" than either Foursquare or Gowalla: Goby and TheDeapMap. First, Goby lets you find things around you, like hiking trails. "Try to do THAT with any other service!," challenges Scoble. Meanwhile, "TheDealMap lets you find deals around you, with easily 50x more deals and offers than any other service I've found."

That's all well and good, but what makes either service necessarily "more important" than Foursquare or Gowalla? "Well, normal people are still resisting using these location services," writes Scoble. "But these offer REAL utility and REAL value ... My wife got excited by both of these, where she isn't excited by Foursquare or Gowalla." Bigger picture, Scoble insists that "the world of location-based services is getting more and more important every day," and that he still loves Foursquare very much.

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