Facebook will acquire privately held social networking firm Gowalla for an undisclosed sum in a bid to improve its location-based networking operations. Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and web services at Gartner, believes the...
Others that have potential include SCVNGR, based on proven brand engagement; and Gowalla, based on innovation and solid design. Mobile discovery, to recap, utilizes the device's portability and location awareness to push content.
Their "Persistent ID" (PID) system has been integrated into Twitter Places alongside other services such as Gowalla and OpenTable. The upshot is that online/mobile check in has become a commodity and services like Foursquare and Gowalla will have...
If you haven't yet, sign up for and check if your listing is on Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, and other LBS apps. It's crucial to take control and proactively manage listings and make updates when a location moves, closes, or opens.
There are a lot of check-in services and Facebook is a platform on which to publish that information," Andy Ellwood of Gowalla told me this week. Much of the speculation in the wake of the Places launch has in fact centered on whether it will be a...
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.
Foursquare has experimented with this and Gowalla has done it since the start. TechCrunch's Social Currency Crunchup at Stanford University and Geo-Loco 2010 in San Francisco echoed one of the ongoing themes of this column: the monetization of...
Another" social integration refers to its Twitter Places deal in mid-June, involving also Foursquare, Gowalla and TomTom. Dague would not reveal the identity of Localeze's future partner but said the deal "involves social location-based services...
Up to now, there was on the one hand review-based services like Yelp and on the other hand, check-in apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and the likes of them. Then, it uploaded the content to Foursquare to provide targeted, 'insider' - so to speak...
Twitter Places, as it is called, is the first Annotation (read: tagging) facility provided by the social site and functions through the cross-integration of successful location-based services (LBS) Foursquare and Gowalla.
Twitter launched its 'Places' feature, pulling together local check-in services Foursquare and Gowalla, and meshing them in with data from local search firm Localeze and global navigation solutions provider TomTom.
