I’m not really sure what all the excitement over MyTown is about. It’s a social app for the iPhone that employs GPS as a means of allowing you to play a real estate game like Monopoly using local establishments as the places you trade.  Local businesses, that is, from the white pages.

When I first read about it, it sounded great.  When I read that it was developed by ex-Diablo engineers, it was a must-download.  While there was some meager novelty in “owning” the local community college, the shimmer quickly faded, because nothing at all interesting occurred as a result.

Sadly, 48 hours later, I think I’m going to remove it.  It’s boring, and it plays just like one of those Zynga social games where you have to check in as often as possible in order to “level up”.  I just don’t have time for that.