March 17, 2010
Gowalla wins the SXSW round
By
Sebastian
So, yes, I have written before that I have written before about Gowalla. As somebody who didn’t go to SXSW but downloaded the newest versions of Gowalla and Foursquare and spent the week travelling with both, I’d like to venture a healthy guess: From a gameplay perspective Gowalla moved forward, Foursquare did cosmetics. Sure, Foursquare’s […]
October 27, 2009
Scobleizer: Foursquare, Gowalla maybe bigger than Twitter revisited
By
Sebastian
About five weeks ago Robert Scoble wrote a blog post wondering whether location-based service/game Foursquare could become bigger than Twitter. After listening to the 10/15/2009 Gillmor Gang (video) I am inclined to at least give in to “Twitter is nice, but we ain’t seen nothing yet.” Here is the money quote, from one of the […]