Comments on: Old Media Interview: Gowalla CEO Josh Williams

By: Mike D. Merrill

Mike D. Merrill — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:51:55 +0000

Daniel, thank for a very insightful interview and more background into the founder's thoughts about this space. I think one of the advantages of these location-based apps is there ability to create a micro-community of sorts since most of the time you really only want to know share your where abouts with folks you know. Although when we share with the world on twitter that kind of dilutes it.

That's why I am surprised by all of the out of town requests I get and why I have numerous pending requests. I think for SXSW this could be appealing but jury is out for me.

In my opinion Gowalla nailed the design and graphics. I actually won't post my location to Facebook except through Gowalla. My using the images vs. a map I think it's visually more appealing in your social stream. However, I'm sure my friends on Facebook are tired of the Starbucks checkins.

I also enjoyed the "One Check In to Rule Them All” quote from Josh. We are lobbying to get him or someone from his team to speak at The Social Media Club of Dallas.

@mikedmerrill

By: Media Bullseye

Media Bullseye — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:10:49 +0000

Building a Niche…

This month, Robert Quigley extols the virtues of the niche site–easy to build, not hard to maintain, and in his case, full of Longhorns fans!…

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uberVU - social comments — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:37:47 +0000

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By: DotEd

DotEd — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:47:04 +0000

I'm a huge fan of Gowalla over foursquare.
Gowalla's rewards are incentive for friends to join before they learn about the usefulness the application later offers as you grow into it.

http://gowalla.com/users/DotEd <–fleshed out example