Can Disney help Gowalla in its battle with Foursquare? (The Business Insider)

I’ll be honest, it’s been a while since I’ve used Gowalla (a location-based checkin service you use on your phone). I’ve found that in most of the cities I visit Foursquare has more users, more tips, is faster, easier to check in, etc. But when I arrived at DisneyWorld yesterday for a private tour with several Disney employees, among others, I learned that Disney liked Gowalla more.

Source : The Business Insider

Can Disney help Gowalla in its battle with Foursquare? (The Business Insider)

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How many users do Foursquare and Gowalla have?

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Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology journalist

When I interviewed Dennis Crowley just before Christmas, he told me that Foursquare had 5m users, 40% of them outside the USA



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Gowalla Update Fixes Crashing with WinterBoard/Jailbreak (iPhone4y.com)

Just a quick update: Gowalla has released update 3.0.1 which has fixed the crashing problem on devices running WinterBoard, a jailbreak app that lets you customize the look of your iPhone. Of course it doesn’t say that in the despcription but I tested it and it’s working now

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Gowalla Update Fixes Crashing with WinterBoard/Jailbreak (iPhone4y.com)

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Gowalla iPhone app adds check-in support Foursquare, Facebook, more (The Boy Genius Report)

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. As the mobile check-in game get more popular — and thus, more annoying — with each passing day, the new breed of LBS services must find new ways to fight for users. But can’t they all just get along? Gowalla seems to think so, and with its newly updated iOS application, the company hopes to keep users immersed by removing the need to switch apps if they...

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Gowalla iPhone app adds check-in support Foursquare, Facebook, more (The Boy Genius Report)

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Gowalla Unifies The Checking-In Game By Allowing Foursquare To Party (LaptopMemo)

The check-in war maybe at its climax everyday – therefore creating more useless apps for you and me to check-in to — but Gowalla, which can heavily be considered number two (behind Foursquare) has released Gowalla 3.0 for iPhone, and allows check-ins and sharing through Gowalla, Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. How long Foursquare might [...]

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Gowalla Unifies The Checking-In Game By Allowing Foursquare To Party (LaptopMemo)

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Gowalla Checks-in at Mouse House (On Influence and Automation)

Yesterday Gowalla announced a partnership with one of the biggest brands on the planet - Walt Disney, Inc.. There are plenty of skeptics that don't believe in social media – let alone geo-social apps like Gowalla, (Foursquare and Facebook Places.) So, why does this partnership make sense? Corporate Blogging for Dummies is now available on Amazon and in book stores. Check out our new...

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Can Disney Make Gowalla Mainstream? (The Social Times)

“I’m going to Disney World.” It’s the chant of Super Bowl champions and award winners alike, and now Gowalla users too. For Disney fans it’s a new, virtual way to share memories. For Gowalla, the partnership with Disney could be a game changer.

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Gowalla Brings Geolocation To Disney (Information Week)

Partnership will allow you to "check in" to theme parks using a smartphone, take guided tours, and collect virtual stamps and pins.

Source : Information Week

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Gowalla Disney deal announced as the Magic Kingdom checks-in (SlashGear)

Gowalla has inked a deal with Disney, which will see visitors to Disney parks able to check-in at over 100 locations across Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California, earning featured stamps as you go. The Gowalla Passport pages will show what’s happening at the parks, together with maps, check-in streams and [...]

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Walt Disney Parks and Resorts check-in to Gowalla (VentureBeat)

Popular mobile check in application Gowalla today announced a new partnership with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. The agreement will provide Gowalla users with custom Disney Gowalla pages, a collection of recent check ins and activities for specific parks and resorts, as well as hundreds of available custom Passport stamps, an image in recognition for checking in to a...

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Welcome To The Magic: Gowalla Lands Location Deal With Disney Parks (TechCrunch)

Location based social network Gowalla has struck a pretty significant partnership today—Disney. The startup is teaming up with Disney Parks to create a branded, Gowalla-powered destination for park-goers to explore Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts. People are able to view park happenings with custom Gowalla Disney Passport pages for Disneyland and Walt Disney World...

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Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let’s Stop Pretending This Is Fun (TechCrunch)

It's a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-based coupons) and check-ins for third-party apps. A day later, Pew Research reported that, despite all the hype, the use of location-based services is actually declining in America, from 5% of the online population in May to 4% last month.

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2 million Spots created on Gowalla to date [TNW Location] (The Next Web)

One of the advantages that early entrants into the check-in space have over newer services – including even Facebook Places – is the amount of user created venue data that they’ve accumulated since early 2009. Also, the creation of places points to an active and engaged user base, so the following tweet by Gowalla would [...] [ Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The...

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Is MyTown comparable to Foursquare and Gowalla as a check-in service?

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Foursquare And Gowalla Used At Double The Rate By Men (The Blog Herald)

If you’re checking out who checked in at different locations last night, it’s likely you’ll notice that mostly your male friends were doing the check-ins. According to a report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project which examines internet trends in the United States, men use Foursquare, Gowalla and other location bases services for [...]

Source : The Blog Herald

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Gowalla sponsored Hockey trip for Oddset in Sweden (Digital Examples)

Colleagues at Carat in Sweden have just launched a sponsored trip on Gowalla for their client Oddset, a gambling company that offers live betting on the Elitserien premier Ice Hockey in Sweden. 12 arenas have been set up with bespoke badges - any fans checking in at 3 of the arenas qualify as having done the trip. The first 1,000 to do the trip win a pair of tickets to any game (excluding...

Source : Digital Examples

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Vancouver now has its own custom city page on, yes, Gowalla (Five Live Links)

http://gowalla.com/in/vancouver (I'm obsessed.)

Source : Five Live Links

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Vera’s Burger Shack: This was the 2,500th spot I checked in at on Gowalla (Five Live Links)

http://gowalla.com/spots/506380 It's also one of the only sentences I've ever written with three prepositions in a row.

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Gowalla: Gowalla Highlights the Best of What's Local With City Pages, Verified Business Listings and Promotion Tools (Market Wire)

AUSTIN, TX (MARKET WIRE) Gowalla (www.gowalla.com), a social network that inspires people to keep up with friends, share the places they go and discover the extraordinary in the world around them, today announced three new features to promote local exploration -- City Pages, Verified Businesses and Venues and the Stamp Calendar. Each provides a new way to dive into the cities where we...

Source : Market Wire

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Gowalla Goes Local With Ad Program (ClickZ)

clickz Location-based player releases local ad features and a unique pricing model to attract regional businesses.

Source : ClickZ

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