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Facebook Buys Gowalla

Facebook just bought Gowalla for an as yet undisclosed sum of money, CNN is reporting. It’s another big get for the blue behemoth.


August 31, 2010
Online

For Now, Most Americans Happy To Be Un-Located

Will most people ever really aspire to be mayor? The buzz surrounding location services is massively disproportionate to their actual use, says the New York Times – only 1 per cent of Americans use them weekly. But will it remain a yuppie novelty?


June 15, 2010
Online

Twitter Places Shows Where That Tweet Came From

Twitter’s adding a feature called Places which allows you to associate tweets with locations. Along with this feature, the company is also rolling out the corresponding API as well as Gowalla and Foursquare integration. [Twitter]


March 27, 2010
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Location-Based Social Networking Looks Kind Of Like A H1N1 Map

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It’s pretty clear by now that the next big thing is going to be location. Here’s a map of what all those check-ins looked like in Austin during Geek Spring Break (SXSW), a taste of what’s coming.