#gowalla

Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams is heading to the annual SXSW music, technology and arts festival in Austin, Texas this year to do something he’s already done – launch a location-based social networking app. One with the same name and core concept as the original, too. Gowalla made its debut in 2009 in Austin (where it was headquartered at the time) and today, it’s launching publicly…

Gowalla Co-Founder Josh Williams And Instagram Designer Tim Van Damme Will Leave Facebook In Unrelated Departures

Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams will leave Facebook, a year and a half after Gowalla was acquired by the social network. In a reportedly unrelated exit, Instagram designer Tim Van Damme will also leave Facebook. Van Damme was also a former Gowalla employee, but he joined Instagram before it was acquired by Facebook.

While the Gowalla product was shut down, Williams went on to build the Facebook…

Location is buzz all over. In last one year lot of Location Based Services (LBS) companies rose up to the Mobile VAS scene. 

Location Awareness Services  Google entered this space by acquiring Dodgeball which is later introduced as Google Latitude. Loopt is also into this space and was found in 2005 with an initial Seed funding from Y-Combinator. Location Based Social Networking Latest offshoot from LBS is the concept of Location Based Social Networking. Competition is very intense with players like Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown(Booyah), Brightkite, Yelp, SCVNGR in this space.

Pokémon Go(walla)

OH at the Regulars last week