Facebook Check-in Badges: Quite possible with Gowalla’s movement

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Don’t get surprised if you soon get a pretty badge for your Facebook check-in or other activities.

Those who have already collected many pins on Gowalla and badges on Foursquare, would easily understand what a Facebook badge might look like. And with this latest hurtle of the Gowalla team joining Facebook, the badges on Facebook seems quite possible as of the years beyond 2012. Consider the fact that quality design work has always been the priority and specialty of Gowalla.

Starting from the ban on Google+ ads on Facebook, development of the ‘timeline’, counter suit on timeline.com, latest ticker ad development, then declaration of a new office in New York in the coming days the strategy of Zuckerberg’s team seems pretty much clear as they are lanning/moving in a real agile towards the IPO launch by April, 2012.

Foursquare Versus Gowalla: A Comparison Revived

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If you ask the question – ‘is there a battle between the new avatar of Gowalla and Foursquare?’ My straight answer would be “NO”.

Gowalla or any other location based social network/platform like Whrrl, Yelp, Loopt, Sonar or Facebook Places never has risen to the level of Foursquare. The reason is simple; Foursquare simplifies the check-in process even if you are holding an old school GPRS phone. I just hope that you enjoyed Foursquare while you were using a GPRS phone down the memory lanes like me.