The team from Gowalla, acquired by Facebook late in 2011, are responsible for the new Nearby functionality. A recent global update to Facebook’s Nearby mobile check-in made it possible for iOS and Android users to discover business information and...
Facebook will acquire privately held social networking firm Gowalla for an undisclosed sum in a bid to improve its location-based networking operations. Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams revealed the deal in a post on the company's official blog.
In its simplest form, crowdsourcing gives the community open access and control of a particular task, and in this case, adding or modifying local business details on search engines or social check-in sites like Foursquare and Gowalla.
Do your homework and check out the top platforms (Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places, Yelp) and see if your target audience is using them. With Foursquare topping headlines in the past year, many businesses are hopping on the location-based...
Gowalla, Plixi, Me2day, Twitgoo, have also been added. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of April 24 to 30, as reported by Search Engine Watch. Search Engine Optimization
Gowalla, Plixi, Me2day, Twitgoo, have also been added, and was first reported in this Quora post. Activity on Quora, such as asking questions, adding or upvoting answers, submitting posts, and adding comments have been added into Google's Realtime...
Others that have potential include SCVNGR, based on proven brand engagement; and Gowalla, based on innovation and solid design. This follows the success that Foursquare had at SXSW '09, before quickly expanding to its current 7.5 million users.
For those of you sick of hearing about it, I'll start by saying game mechanics are not a magic silver bullet -- and I took great delight in hearing Gowalla CEO Josh Williams proclaim "we don't need no stinkin' badges" at last month's Snowcial.
Though they boast a Latitude user base of 10 million people, Google is late to the game, behind forerunners FourSquare, GoWalla, Yelp and even Facebook. In a move that seemed inevitable, Google Latitude announced the ability to check-in to places.
Gowalla provides a similar service and now has more than 700,000 registered users. Checking in or tagging locations on location-based social networks like Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter is no doubt the hottest phenomenon today (besides possibly...
Gowalla is also an option, but I think Foursquare will be the frontrunner in the check-in space (though people's opinions on this will differ). Like in neon lights, see it. They were so afraid your friends might have missed it that they created...
With major news sites "checking in" it is no wonder FourSquare's geo-location recommendation and interaction platform is growing, however "Forrester Research studies show that only about four percent of U.S.smart phone users participate in...
Their "Persistent ID" (PID) system has been integrated into Twitter Places alongside other services such as Gowalla and OpenTable. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 8, as reported by Search Engine Watch...
The upshot is that online/mobile check in has become a commodity and services like Foursquare and Gowalla will have to position themselves as 'social reward' platforms or differentiate their service by focussing on checking in to abstract things...
If you haven't yet, sign up for and check if your listing is on Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, and other LBS apps. The holidays are an important time to look at how your local business identity is performing online.
Much of the speculation in the wake of the Places launch has in fact centered on whether it will be a "______ killer" (insert Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, MyTown, Yelp, etc. Gowalla has already taken advantage of both "read" and "write" API's and...
You heard it, it does sound a lot like Twitter's earlier-launched Twitter Places: the name, the partners (at least for Foursquare, Gowalla and Localeze) and the same principle of layering and meshing data from those partners.
Localeze is already teaming up with Twitter to provide data for its Twitter Places feature, along with Foursquare, Gowalla and Tom Tom. Facebook is set to launch its own version of Foursquare-like check-ins in the coming weeks, CNET reported...
Foursquare has experimented with this and Gowalla has done it since the start. Though we continue to see misguided thinking on revenue opportunities, a glimmer of realism is beginning to take over. At the TechCrunch event, CityGrid's Kara Nortman...
Localeze and TomTom, along with Foursquare and Gowalla, are already Twitter's partners for the chirpy company's "Twitter Places" feature. An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech news Brand New
