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Yeah Gowalla can forget it. No chance. The internet doesn't do “also-rans” like the bricks and mortar world. I learned that from Al Reis.

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Alister

Well it remains to be seen if there's room enough (well users enough). It'll be interesting to see what happens when Facebook launches it's location feature. With 500 mill or so users, it's should be pretty easy for them to get more users than Foursquare to try it, but that doesn't mean Foursquare won't survive.

I've used both, and i like'em both! I think the gowalla website is actually better and they have some real innovative features like the trip badges/passports, and the virtual goods you can drop at places and pick them up.

seems like 4sq has more momentum, press and so on. the problem is that most of my friends are on 4sq and i've only got a few on gowalla.

Would it be unrealistic to expect that 4sq and gowalla would merge?

the problem is check in fatigue – i cant be bothered checking in on loopt, brightkite, etc….so we gravitate and consolidate our time to the bigger ones.

check out these video, nothing new in it, but insightful to hear from dennis on where 4sq is headed and some background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=UMFYiGuO3Uw

Thanks for the link to Scoble's interview Matthew, I hadn't seen that before. Amongst other things, good to know they are going to add image uploads at some point, and that they want to do it right.

I think your experience is similar to many others, and mine, in that more local people are on Foursquare than on Gowalla, so it's more fun to use, even though the features are good on Gowalla. Social wins out over features if it's a close race.

I don't think Foursquare and Gowalla would merge. Maybe one of them would sell to a bigger company one day. I could certainly see Gowalla doing that. Dennis Crowley from Foursquare doesn't seem keen to do that after his experience with selling Dodgeball to Google a few years ago. That didn't go well by the sound of it. He did say in that interview he feels like he could make sure it happens right the next time though. Guess we'll have to see how it all plays out!

The other cool feature that gowalla has is the ability to pin your location and being able to move the pin. its a hassle having to type in the address, particularly if you do not know which street you are on.

I just think that 4sq is easier to use than gowalla, its more simplified (most likely is that it has less features).

i actually like Kevin Rose's approach – he's invested in 4sq and gowalla!! so he's betting on the race not the horse.

Personally, I would rather see foursquare remain independent and not sell out and develop into the next social media powerhouse.

Ha, yeah, I noticed that Kevin Rose had invested in both. How can he lose? Good way of putting it – betting on the race not the horse.

And yes, there's a lot to be said for simple and easy to use. I think that's one of the reason that Twitter won out too. Early on, people kept pushing for more features but they kept it simple for a long time, then started introducing only a few features, based on what was already happening really.

I've used both, and i like'em both! I think the gowalla website is actually better and they have some real innovative features like the trip badges/passports, and the virtual goods you can drop at places and pick them up.

seems like 4sq has more momentum, press and so on. the problem is that most of my friends are on 4sq and i've only got a few on gowalla.

Would it be unrealistic to expect that 4sq and gowalla would merge?

the problem is check in fatigue – i cant be bothered checking in on loopt, brightkite, etc….so we gravitate and consolidate our time to the bigger ones.

check out these video, nothing new in it, but insightful to hear from dennis on where 4sq is headed and some background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=UMFYiGuO3Uw

Thanks for the link to Scoble's interview Matthew, I hadn't seen that before. Amongst other things, good to know they are going to add image uploads at some point, and that they want to do it right.

I think your experience is similar to many others, and mine, in that more local people are on Foursquare than on Gowalla, so it's more fun to use, even though the features are good on Gowalla. Social wins out over features if it's a close race.

I don't think Foursquare and Gowalla would merge. Maybe one of them would sell to a bigger company one day. I could certainly see Gowalla doing that. Dennis Crowley from Foursquare doesn't seem keen to do that after his experience with selling Dodgeball to Google a few years ago. That didn't go well by the sound of it. He did say in that interview he feels like he could make sure it happens right the next time though. Guess we'll have to see how it all plays out!

The other cool feature that gowalla has is the ability to pin your location and being able to move the pin. its a hassle having to type in the address, particularly if you do not know which street you are on.

I just think that 4sq is easier to use than gowalla, its more simplified (most likely is that it has less features).

i actually like Kevin Rose's approach – he's invested in 4sq and gowalla!! so he's betting on the race not the horse.

Personally, I would rather see foursquare remain independent and not sell out and develop into the next social media powerhouse.

Ha, yeah, I noticed that Kevin Rose had invested in both. How can he lose? Good way of putting it – betting on the race not the horse.

And yes, there's a lot to be said for simple and easy to use. I think that's one of the reason that Twitter won out too. Early on, people kept pushing for more features but they kept it simple for a long time, then started introducing only a few features, based on what was already happening really.