It's like when check-in apps, like Gowalla and Foursquare, came on the scene. At first, nobody wanted to give away their location, but now it's like second nature to check-in. Giving away even more information on our whereabouts, what we exactly do when we're there may one day be like second nature.
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Likeable is a new open-source Ruby library built by Gowalla to store 'likes' on items. It works with ActiveRecord objects but can be used with any Ruby object that implements an #id method. If you have Redis ready and waiting, it looks pretty easy to get going.
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Trademark feature This one paragraph had me in shock. Not that people don't care for that feature, but that they kept it around for so long :
Most notably, we will be removing Items completely with the next release of Gowalla. While they have been a trademark feature of Gowalla since the beginning — one that our entire team poured much effort and passion into — fewer than half a percent of our active community makes use of them. It now causes more distraction than joy for the vast majority of our community.
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…social network checkins on a map. You'll make API requests to Facebook, Gowalla, and Foursquare.
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…that inappropriately use techniques, such as gamification. Foursquare, Gowalla, and other services popularized the use of game mechanics to drive user engagement. Unfortunately, many companies have strictly copied the obvious game elements, such as badges and leveling-up, without understanding the deeper psychology at work. These services have seen the power of persuasive design, but lack a true understanding of how to properly apply psychology in UX design.
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Every night there are a tonne of parties hosted by the likes of Mashable, Gowalla, Foursquare, Vimeo, YouTube, Media Temple, MMXINI that are attended by everyone in the industry (plus the occasional celebrity ).
The parties are definitely the best places to meet people and if there's someone you really want to say hello to you can usually stalk them on Gowalla or Twitter.
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…importantly) support for filtering your tweets based on keywords or their source ( Foursquare, Gowalla). I spent a good chunk of the late winter and early spring of this year getting the application into a beta state. When Twitter bought out Tweetie, I made the difficult decision to scrap the entire project. Going into the iPhone Twitter market was a bad idea before, but with Twitter now offering their own clients, it's a suicide mission. I did end up open sourcing the code …
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Gowalla, Foursquare, Brightkite, Booyah, Yelp and more will integrate it instead of getting killed by the 500 pound gorilla
Foursquare is a "partner", but has nothing to announce concerning integration. "This basically validates that we're on to something with check-ins", says Holger Luedorft from Foursquare. Foursquare says they'll continue to work on their platform and they look forward to leveraging the Facebook Places API .
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Gregg and Nathaniel (both of whom are notorious Gowalla cheats, which I would never do, no sir) chat a bit about Phat in the latest episode of Ruby5 .
The Changelog crew also gave their take on Phat in a recent posting.
I've spent 100s of hours working on the technology behind Phat over the last six months. If you think it's awesome, please consider recommending me on Working with Rails . I'm not asking for money, just an electronic thumbs up from my fellow Ruby community members. Thanks!
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