Gowalla REST API
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Gowalla is a location-based social networking service. The Gowalla API is another way to access your Gowalla data � one that makes it easy for third-party tools to interact with the service. This allows integration into apps for many platforms, especially useful for iPhone and similar mobile apps.

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- Achivy adds some fun and gamification to your social life. Add Twitter,Tumblr, Foursquare Gowalla , Flickr, Stackoverflow, Klout and many other applications to your profile to see how many...
- Localmind offers a local conversation platform that lets users search for nearby conversations, create new conversations and interact with current conversations at specific locations around the world.
- Hipster lets users uncover information about real world locations. The iPhone app uses Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook to let users follow locations that they’ve checked in to.
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Facebook, Please Don't Kill More APIs
It's time we talk, Facebook, before you do something you'll really regret. You see, I noticed you with that look in your eye again. The sort of look that marks the end of a promising young company and along with it a well-loved API. You say you're changing, but I'm not sure I can ever trust you. Let me tell you why.
From the Ashes of Gowalla Rises New Location Game
Gowalla's rocky couple of years ended with a talent acquisition by Facebook of the former location-sharing app. Left in the dust were developers using the Gowalla API, including Ben Dodson and his field notes app for Gowalla. Dodson's latest creation is a Gowalla-inspired app that focuses just on the gaming elements rather than check-ins. And because Dodson remembers struggling with Gowalla's early API, the WallaBee API is available from the start. In fact, before the start.
Wallabee: A Faster, Field Notes-inspired Gowalla
Check-in app Gowalla puts a fun twist on location sharing by helping its users discover wonderfully-designed virtual items that can be found, swapped, and dropped all over the place. Developer Ben Dodson used the Gowalla API to put together Wallabee Travel Edition.
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