"Checking In" Is Hot - But Not New!
Back in 2007 I started working at a startup named Groovr (which appears to not be in operation anymore.)
The idea behind Groovr was sort of an enhanced Twitter, only without the message limitation. It natively supported image and movie messages being sent to the service. A lot of people loved these features but my favorite was something completely different.
We had been using an idea back then that is all the rage today. "Check Ins" - that is, checking into a location so you're friends can see where you currently are. It was as easy as sending a quick ...
