Check.in: finally, a unified check-in for Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite

Filed under: Utilities, Social Software, Mobile

We've been writing an awful lot about the location wars on Download Squad lately. Gowalla, Foursquare, and the rest are exploding in popularity, and that means trendy, early-adopter types might have several different sites to check in with every time they go somewhere. Reporting your location to multiple sites is a usability nightmare, but it has a solution: unified check-in! A service called Check.in looks like it has the potential to be the holy grail of checking in, with support for Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite.

Check.in was actually put together by Brightkite, which was one of the first checkin apps out of the gate. It has slipped out of the spotlight recently with the rise of more game-oriented location offerings, but Check.in should bring a little attention back Brightkite's way. "One checkin to rule them all" means there's no downside to trying out Brightkite if you're already on Foursquare or Gowalla, so it's a shrewd business move, as well as a useful product.

So far, the Check.in site (what a perfectly catchy name, by the way) doesn't have a launch date more specific than "coming soon." It does show both an iPhone and a Nexus One, though, so both iPhone and Android users can look forward to it.

Check.in: finally, a unified check-in for Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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