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Do Tips on Nearby Bargains Outweigh Privacy Concerns?
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Ever been in an unfamiliar neighborhood, hungry but without much cash in your pocket? That’s where Cheapism would like to come in. The Web site, which helps you find bargains and products, is now offering a “location-based” version.
Cheapism with the social networking site Foursquare to offer for a meal that won’t put a big dent in your wallet — with the added perk of telling you if, say, your friends liked it, and whether they happen to be there at the moment.
For those (me included) who haven’t embraced mobile social networking offered by the likes of Foursquare and Facebook Places, all this might sound a bit complicated. But Cheapism’s founder, Max Levitte, me it’s not.
Here’s how it works: Let’s say you are a Foursquare user who tracks Cheapism on your account. When you use the Foursquare app on your smartphone to “check in” to a location — that is, you let your friends know where you are, — Cheapism alerts you if there are nearby restaurants that it recommends.
“We may not be groundbreaking, but we’re ,” Mr. Levitte said.
The service is available in more than a dozen major cities, New York, San Francisco and Chicago, and is beginning to branch into 18 smaller markets in some states, like Florida. Cheapism’s restaurant tips have been available on Foursquare for almost two months and have about 16,000 .
Location-based services seem to be on, despite some uneasiness about their potential for invasion of privacy. A recent survey by Comscore found that 17 million mobile phone users used such “check in” services, with 12 million doing so on smartphones like iPhones or Android phones.
