Gowalla

It seems that all the rage these days is in social networking applications that allow you to broadcast your location, or, “Check-In”, essentially posting your GPS or cell-tower triangulated location up to the internet.  Applications like Foursquare and Gowalla popularized checking in and big companies like Facebook and Google are trying to mainstream it with Facebook Places and Google Latitude.

It seems like there are really two factions when it comes to applications that allow you to broadcast your location.  Those that thing low-jacking your location via your mobile device for the world to see is the most insane idea ever…  and, everyone else…

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Gowalla For BlackBerry 1.0 Released And Ready For Download

by Robb Dunewood on August 31, 2010 · 0 comments

Gowalla for BlackBerry 1.0

Gowalla for BlackBerry, which has been in public beta for a little over a month, has been updated to version 1.0 and is now officially available for download.  For those not familiar with Gowalla for BlackBerry is a social networking check-in application similar to Foursquare for BlackBerry and the recently launched Facebook Places. The following Read more...

Gowalla For BlackBerry Now In Public Beta

by Robb Dunewood on July 19, 2010 · 0 comments

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Gowalla announced last Friday that Gowalla for BlackBerry, which they have been working on for some time, is now available in a public Beta… The beta release now includes photos and commenting on Spots, as well as better notification options. Trips and Items will be coming soon to Blackberry as well. Point your Blackberry browser Read more...

Web Based Version Of Gowalla Coming To BlackBerry

by Robb Dunewood on February 4, 2010 · 0 comments

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According to @JW, a.k.a., Josh Williams, founder and CEO of Gowalla, a location based travel game similar to FourSquare, a web based version of the application/game is coming to the BlackBerry. Earlier today Josh Williams tweeted, “Oh wow.  I just checked in from a BlackBerry Bold.  BB users are going to be happy about this Read more...