 The check-in is dead, but if you're looking for the best soup dumplings nearby, there's an app for that. This is the new Foursquare. When you first open the app, you'll notice that there are no check-ins from friends or even a check-in button at all. Instead, you find a row of intents, like breakfast or lunch, and a list of categories and places below that dig deeper into what you might be looking for. These categories range from great dinner places nearby to places you've saved and places to get a juicy burger. The coffee intent might even include a places with wifi category. These groupings are great, but here's the key to the new Foursquare. Everything in pink is content customized just for you. If you tap on the pink F in the top left corner, you're presented with a list of tastes. Add some, like sashimi, and they start showing up all around the app to indicate that one of your favorite foods is particularly good at this or that place. These pink results show up in search, but also in the app's venue pages, where tips including your favorite tastes show up first. You might also notice tips with a yellow star beneath them. These are tips left by experts, people who have left many popular tips around town in this category. You can even become an expert yourself if the tips you leave are liked by lots of people. You can check on your progress in your profile. A lot of the new Foursquare revolves around personalized recommendations, but if you know exactly what you want, you can still search for it. And if you've arrived at a bar and are looking for something good to drink, you can tap here, a new tab that gives you quick access to tips at the place you're at. Tips also live within another tab, which acts as a newsfeed of tips from Foursquare, people you follow, and tastes nearby, which is a collection of recent tips only related to stuff you like. If you only want to know what people are buzzing about, check the popular page. This is Foursquare's most practical app yet. By focusing entirely on recommendations, really, for the first time ever, the new app could finally break through to the masses and challenge Yelp on its own turf. While Foursquare's data set is still largely the same, the company has finally taken advantage of the 55 million tips it's collected, converting these tips into tastes which help influence your search results. It's the most personal recommendations engine I've ever used, and it's only getting better.