GigaOM Video: Gowalla CEO Josh Williams on Foursquare, Yelp & The Future of Location
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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Yelp, which recently launched “check-ins” via its iPhone app in a move that put it on the same playing field as Foursquare and Gowalla, is making those check-ins an integral part of its user-review services . As shown in the screenshot below, a review of a particular retail outlet or service in Yelp will now show whether that user...
Burbn , a stealthy startup that brings mobile location check-in gameplay (à la Foursquare and Gowalla) to the mobile browser, has raised $500,000 from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Burbn founder Kevin Systrom confirmed the round to us after it was written up in TechCrunch this afternoon. Burbn is a nifty little HTML 5 mobile web...
Peter Sisson, the founder and chief executive officer of Toktumi , a San Francisco-based VoIP startup, is elated. He was jumping with joy when I spoke with him earlier today. Why? Because Apple just approved the latest version (2.0) of his company’s mobile VoIP app, Line2. The app, which costs 99 cents, allows you to call and receive phone...
Apple a couple of weeks back Apple released a “tip” for developers on how to enhance its apps using its “Core Location” framework, which it touted as being able to imbue apps with location-based info on the weather, nearby restaurants and more. But while some said it signaled the death of the location-based ad industry on the iPhone...
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its own sweet...
Om’s note: I wrote this long before the rumors about Google buying Yelp for $500 million started flying around. In my post from today that breaks down the Yelp-Google deal, I explain why it is a good move for Yelpers to take the money and run. I also say that it is a good move for Google in the short term. Over the long term, value of Yelp...
The FourSquare app is coming to the Blackberry platform soon. New York-based FourSquare, which has raised $1.35 million in funding is working on a beta version of the application. The company recently provided access to its beta version to a handful of people. Soon, it will be rolling out 500 beta invites in batches. You can still sign-up for...
In my first week back on the web beat at GigaOM, one of the topics I wanted to focus on was location. Let’s just say that hasn’t exactly been a difficult task . Coming at us from Boulder, San Francisco and London, here are today’s top three geo-tagging developments: SimpleGeo launched today, promising to build a contextual infrastructure...
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At Apple’s iPad launch event last week , I spoke with uber venture capitalist John Doerr (of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), The New York Times media critic David Carr and my former boss, Josh Quittner (who is now helping Time Inc. figure out its devices strategy.) I wanted to know if they believed the device would have a far-reaching...
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