Social Site Shuts Down For Good
Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the locati...
Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the locati...
Michele Weldon | Posted 02.07.2012
Digital shaming has become the newest form of public stocks, ensuring the wrongdoings of individuals are widely known and impossible to erase.
The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 12.08.2011
Facebook has acquired location-based social service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum. Both companies announced the deal on December 5. "We're exci...
The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 12.05.2011
Facebook has reportedly acquired location-based social service Gowalla, an unnamed source close to the company told CNN Money on Friday evening. W...
Josh Sternberg | Posted 01.01.2012
What happened with Gowalla? To answer that is not a simple, "People don't use it" response. People do use Gowalla. But what happened along the way appears to be more vision-based than anything else.
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 11.12.2011
Gowalla, a location-based social network that has competed head to head with startups like Foursquare and Loopt, is rolling out a radical overhaul tha...
Gowalla's Josh Williams | Posted 06.04.2011
Is this newfound love for all things game-related really the future? The sentiment that games are -- or will be -- as important as our social connections over the next decade is laughable.
VentureBeat | December 10, 2010 | Cody Barbierri | Posted 05.25.2011
While only 4 percent of US online adults have ever used a location-based service, like popular check in app Foursquare, data from research firm Forre...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Visitors to Disney's theme parks in the U.S. can now use their smart phones not just to "check in" to the resorts, but earn digital v...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011
Gowalla CEO Josh Williams wins the award for the most stylish tech CEO I've interviewed to date. He arrived at our SoHo offices wearing elegant leat...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011
If you can't beat 'em, include 'em. That seems to be the thinking behind Gowalla 3, the latest update to the location-based social networking service...
Posted 05.25.2011
Gowalla, the mobile and web service that allows people keep up with friends and share the places they go, is teaming up with The Huffington Post to sh...
Mike Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011
As of late, I can't log on to Facebook without finding out that one of my "friends" is at Carl's Jr. or Dress Barn.
J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011
Rob Walker's newest project for New Orleans proves him to be no less than a bonafide optimist. He's proposing that we use art and design to alter our perceptions of a downtrodden environment.
The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Julia L. Rogers | Posted 08.04.2011
While establishing a presence on Facebook, Twitter and Yelp may have been enough to take your business to the next level even just a few months ago, l...
readwriteweb.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Fifteen-month old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week and Facebook has made it clear that location is a feature it is preparing to offer...
David All | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, Facebook officially rolled out Facebook Places, its location-based service. This means that the time to get your strategy together for how to effectively use location to reach, engage, and empower brand activists is right now.
Posted 05.25.2011
Facebook Places is the latest "check-in" service, announced yesterday by the Internet giant. It comes on the heels of Foursquare and Gowalla, two of t...
Max Gladwell | Posted 05.25.2011
Location technologies are transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world. From the global to the local, here are 10 ways geolocation is a positive force for good.
James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011
Broadway has the opportunity to get cutting edge. It's time to start playing Foursquare.
Daisy Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif -- Online video is the fastest growing sectors in advertising, with spending expected to be up nearly 35 percent this year,...
Maya Baratz | Posted 05.25.2011
Sure, location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla were well represented at this year's SXSW Interactive conference. And here are three more interesting start-ups that picked up steam during the conference.
The Next Web | Posted 05.11.2012