GigaOM Video: Gowalla CEO Josh Williams on Foursquare, Yelp & The Future of Location
January 22nd, 2010 admin
Last week Josh Williams, chief executive officer and co-founder of Alamofire, a Austin, TX.-based company behind the location-based mobile application Gowalla, stopped by our office to discuss his company and its future. (How Gowalla and similar apps work: You visit a place, you fire up your app, check-in on your mobile phone and announce to your …
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