December 2009
3 posts
New San Francisco Featureds: City Lights...
We have quite frequently left our hearts in San Francisco, and two of our latest featured Gowalla spots are there in the Bay, including:
City Lights Booksellers, possibly San Francisco’s most iconic bookstore.
Moscone, home of the annual Christmas-in-June for Apple aficionados everywhere.
We also released a hidden custom spot in San Francisco. (Pro-tip: there are several hidden custom...
Loving the Pixel
A few weeks ago Sco, Phillip and I flew up to Oklahoma City to hang out with the awesome folks at okcCoCo—who also have a great stamp worth grabbing—where we had been invited to talk a little bit about why and how we built Gowalla. Unfortunately Sco got sick at the last moment, and left me to fend for myself. For those who might be interested in this sort of thing, we’ve posted the video...
Gowalla 1.3 and Twitter Geolocation
During the rush of the Thanksgiving holiday last week, Apple released Gowalla 1.3, the latest update to our iPhone client application. While this update provides a number of performance related improvements making it easier to check in while indoors, the core feature improvement is related to our items system.
Simply tap an item on your passport tab to bring up more detail about that item,...