Your Week with Gowalla

It doesn't seem like it's been a year since I started using Gowalla, but the publish date on my Gowallaing post tells me that milestone is coming up soon. A lot of cool features have been added to Gowalla since I wrote that article, but it's still a surprisingly relevant intro to the game. For a while it seemed like Gowalla was trying to downplay the items element of their service to compete with some of the more utilitarian location-based apps. In the past few weeks though, they've really brought items back to the forefront of the Gowalla experience. In the last week alone they released 3 new regular ...

08/24/2010 | 4 Comments | Filed Under: Fun Read More

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