I've been trying out Foursquare in place of Yelp when I'm looking for a place nearby (a good place to get an iced tea for example). It has performed well though I have yet to use it extensively enough to determine how it truly stacks up.
One thing I care about that Foursquare doesn't make obvious which Yelp does: if a business has free Wifi.
Funnily enough, about half of the time that a place has password-protected WiFi someone seems to have left the password (sometimes an out -of-date one) as a tip.
I check in to things not because I care about my friends seeing it (surprisingly few of my FB friends are on Foursquare), but because I like to easily see how long it has been since I've gone to a certain place.
One thing I care about that Foursquare doesn't make obvious which Yelp does: if a business has free Wifi.
Funnily enough, about half of the time that a place has password-protected WiFi someone seems to have left the password (sometimes an out -of-date one) as a tip.
I check in to things not because I care about my friends seeing it (surprisingly few of my FB friends are on Foursquare), but because I like to easily see how long it has been since I've gone to a certain place.