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…
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 BlackBerryand the recently launched Facebook Places.
The following features have been added to Gowalla for BlackBerry 1.0:
Trips
Items
Take and post photos
Ability to post threaded comments
Gowalla for BlackBerry is a free download and you can pick it up OTA at the link below…
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 to Gowalla.com and you’ll find the link to download the application for your phone. Alternately, you can download it to your desktop and then sync it to your device by visiting: http://bit.ly/BBdwnld
Gowalla for BlackBerry is a free BlackBerry download however, it is in beta, and Gowalla is asking that you provide them a hand by posting your feedback and bug reports to the Gowalla for BlackBerry support site or by sending them an email to BlackBerry@gowalla.com.
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 update to Mobile Web when it rolls.”
Gowalla is also working on a web client for Android, however, the version will have the benefit of HTML 5. It will be interesting to see what Gowalla can pull of in the BlackBerry Browser.
