Josh Williams, one of the founders of Gowalla, looking back at when Gowalla launched and needed to compete with Foursquare While we were busy playing tug-of-war over check-ins, someone else found a path to the goal with less friction. And no, that “someone else” isn’t Foursquare … Play by your own rules →
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Turf Geography Club
Turf is a free location based iOS game set in the real world. Earn coins for visiting real life locations, take’em over, build on top of’em, and collect rent. Beware your fellow geographers who want to take your sugar! Built on top of Foursquare Here’s the Kickstarter video that shows some gameplay (project has already …
Wallabee
Ben Dodson, author of various Gowalla related tools in the past, has released Wallabee, a location based game he’s been working on the past few months: WallaBee is the ultimate collectibles game for your iPhone. The aim of the game is to complete sets by collecting items in a variety of ways. Each item and …
Ben Dodson: Goodbye Gowalla
Ben Dodson, once a loyal Gowalla user and 3rd party Gowalla App Developer — he created Wallabee (formerly GowallaTools), and Highlights — says goodbye to Gowalla. In his goodbye he talks about his developer love-hate relationship with Gowalla, highlights some of the points where Gowalla has failed over the years, and points out some points …
Gowalla ⇒ Facebook
Scott Raymond, co-founder and CTO of Gowalla confirms the rumors: It wasn’t an easy decision, but Facebook has always been a friend of the company, so joining their team is a natural move. I’m incredibly excited to work alongside folks that have already changed the world pretty profoundly, and who have an even bigger vision …
On Gowalla, Facebook, Instagram, Path, and Storytelling
I was meaning to write a blogpost on Gowalla 4. About how I used it less than before. But also about that when I use it (which I still do from time to time), I use it in a more engaged way. In the blogpost on Path 2, I was going to state that “Path …
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Facebook buys Gowalla
Gowalla 4
Gowalla 4
Several months ago, the Gowalla team — seen as the main competitor to Foursquare, winner of the location wars — sat down to dream it all up again. They thought about what kind of location-based app they would build today if they were starting from scratch. Then they went out and did just that. Gowalla …