Facebook Buys Gowalla

Barak Tutterrow · Owner at Barak Tutterrow Creative Consulting
"with a stronger emphasis on virtual goods (and nicer icons) than their computer." I think you mean "competitor".

Jason Kincaid · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Mild-Mannered Reporter at TechCrunch · 30,063 subscribers
Ha, fixed, thanks!

Barak Tutterrow · Owner at Barak Tutterrow Creative Consulting
No problem. Glad to help.

Madhav Tripathi · Subscribe · Founder/CEO at GizHack
Barak Tutterrow it is auto correct.

Keith Swiderski · Director, Online Customer Experience at Wyndham Worldwide
It's only a matter of time before every company is owned by Facebook, Google, Apple or Amazon.

Julian Hugh · Top Commenter · Founder and CEO at SwagFriends.com teens social network
But the mother of all companies, Walmart, will buy out Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and anything on its way lol

Patrick R. Gibbons · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Las Vegas, Nevada
Nonsense, if this were 1900 you would have said the same thing about U.S. Steel.... companies come and go. No one stays top dog for long when you have a competitive economy. Watch for the big companies looking to collude with government in order to retain marketshare, however.

Shameer Mulji · Top Commenter · Vancouver, British Columbia
@keith Swiderski - You also forgot Microsoft.

Max Woolf · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University · 523 subscribers
Their office at Palo Alto will be right next to the Beluga guys' office.

Muhammad Huzaifa · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
Next acquisition "Instagram" or "Path"?

Azizul Karim
Isn't Path facebook for mobile?

Muhammad Huzaifa · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
Azizul Karim Path is unsuccessful version of Facebook for mobile. Facebook acquires most of the companies for their talent not for product even if Path is copying them still Facebook might be interested in its acquisition.

Alex Weston Lin · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Co-Founder/Generalist at LVL6
Muhammad Huzaifa errr I think Path is the successful version of Facebook for mobile in terms of UI. have you seen path 2.0? their founder is FROM facebook.

Magnús Sigurbjörnsson · Subscribe · Web Developer at Transmit
I think Foursquare will stay strong as many people try to avoid checking in to Facebook as they have everybody on Facebook. Like you have your boss for an example on Facebook but you would avoid having him on Foursquare to see all your pub-crawl check-ins.

Yuichiro Hidekata · Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
foursquareに対抗？今のところFacebookよりはfoursquare派。

Justin Freid · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Justin at JustinFreid.com
This makes sense in the context of Facebook pulling back on its own place based check-in system. Gowalla's is more robust and nicer looking. Gowalla always suffered under Foursquare's first-mover advantage, its technology is wasted playing second fiddle, Gowalla goes with Facebook.

Michael Bauser · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Kent State University
Oh, spare us the "first-mover advantage" bullshit. Fourquare and Gowalla both made their public debuts at SXSWi 2009 -- Foursquare's "advantage" was, like, two days. Foursquare won (even that first week) because it worked better, and marketed itself better.

If you think Gowalla's going be reborn as Facebook Places 2.0, you're delusional. This is a talent acquisition.
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Vahe Ohanian
I am tired of these Ivy League morons trying to control the world.

Warren Davis
Don't you mean Ivy League dropouts? #OccupyIntelligentThought

Serge Bronstein · Subscribe · Top Commenter · C.E.O at FlameStorm.com FREE Blogging Platform
they are much poorer than they pretend to be, so don't envy them too much, it's all about bulshit anyways, nobody gave them $10 million, they just put out bulshit news that they did and techcrunch prints it for ten bux more.

Warren Davis
Serge Bronstein Vahe is green with 'ivy', it is (and will always be) about bulshit (sic) anyways (sic). 10 million is chicken feed - and boy, if I weren't a vulture, I wish I were a chicken ;)


John Boyd · Top Commenter · Partner at Rimon Law Group
Wow. That came out of no where. Congratulations to the Gowalla team.

Vahe Ohanian
I am sure it will fail dismally if Facebook continues to have secrete agreements with the CIA, FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and The National Reconnaissance Office [or equivalents] on "Thought Control" methods designed by the Masons and Illuminati to usher in their Hellish "1984" scenario.

Daniel Vampan · Subscribe · UCSC
Oh, the ironing. Clearly these are all reasons why Facebook would succeed!

Warren Davis
Daniel Vampan Yes, dirty laundry is never aired sufficiently, or folded completely.

Carlos 'Billy' Herrera · Top Commenter · He's Awesome at Everything
Daniel Vampan yes, all those meeting can't be attended wearing wrinkly clothes

Andrew Brackin · Top Commenter
They have a really really talented design team, this is a aqhire rather than a big move to integrate Gowalla's tech. I could see them doing in location what they did with Beluga, launching a facebook location app or some kind of social guide.

Vahe Ohanian
Facebook has to disclose first of all of their agreements secrete or otherwise before I advocate its competitor to topple it because of lack of TRUST and/or Confidence in Facebook's privacy policies. I say if they build not to my pleasing, then I shall destroy with pleasure.

Warren Davis
What are you smoking? Either change the contents, or the paper...

Carlos 'Billy' Herrera · Top Commenter · He's Awesome at Everything
and that is why you don't always trust Google Translate * prosthetic arm flies of randomly*

Michael Bauser · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Kent State University
You remind me of a crazy homeless guy I ran away from, once.
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Hector Ramos · Subscribe · Top Commenter · San Juan, Puerto Rico
If Facebook is going to have Gowalla working on Timeline, that still leaves open the possibility of them buying Foursquare for Places.

Michael Bauser · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Kent State University
Not really. Foursquare's not angling to be bought by anybody.

Michael Gnagy · Co-founder at MAVN
I wonder if Gowalla's API will continue to function. Right now we use Gowalla's API to stream check-in data, something that Facebook doesn't allow us to do currently. Foursquare allows you to stream tips, but not check-ins so Gowalla did exactly what I wanted it to do.

Udit Malhotra · Subscribe · Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University · 229 subscribers
Seems to be interesting... its all about playing the mind game, gods knows what facebook is targeting next.

Oliur Rahman · Subscribe · Founder & Managing Director at UltraLinx
Facebook & Gowalla teaming up against Foursquare? Only one side will win.

Michael Bauser · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Kent State University
Yeah. Foursquare's side.

Ricardo Solon · Top Commenter
don't think so .... looks like a talent acquisition.... Foursquare has his own purpose and right now they are hard to beat ...

Warren Davis
They used to call this a mash-up; at what point do we call it Uncle Ben's?

Frantzdy Samael Romain · Subscribe · Top Commenter · Software Architect at KartVU
Sweet! and some location based startup gets hope with less competition now.

Skill-Guru
Smart move. Things hotting up in location space.

Geoff Wolfe · UCLA
Scooped by CNN? Who woulda thunk?

Gabriel Anderson · Subscribe · Founder, Director of Marketing at Real Solutions, Inc.
HAHAHA... that's what I thought too..

Sargis Buniatyan · Top Commenter · Yerevan, Armenia
I wonder what all these companies that got acquired, all the investors, all the shareholders, etc. are going to do if by chance FB starts to collapse.

Dima Savisky · Top Commenter
Gowalla is gone, Foursquare remained alone. They celebrate! )))

Michael Boy · Subscribe
Sellouts

Warren Davis
It's ok, painful at first, but you'll eventually come to accept defeat, or wisdom.