Currently there are all different sorts of location based check-in services for every mobile platform out there, so much so that even
Facebook of all things has launched Places, with which the company hopes to make an impression in the location space. So its obviously that many of these companies are head to head against each other, and no one has the intention of backing down any soon, and with what Gowalla just did, it looks like this one is definitely here to stay.
Looks like Gowalla is working on the principle of keeping their friends close, but their enemies closer. This location based service has made a drastic fundamental change to their application. Gowalla 3.0 will now allow the user to check in to Facebook’s and Foursquare’s location services, apart from its own, meaning that it has made itself compatible with its biggest competitors in the location based check-in arena.
Gowalla 3.0, launched for the iPhone, looks like it means business now. This app will let you check-in seamlessly to all the above mentioned services, but it will also pull in check-ins from the users friends on those very services. So even if their friends do not use Gowalla, the user can view all of their check-ins from with Gowalla, which is now a pretty unique unified check-in service.
And it gets better! Gowalla 3.0 will also allow you to share your check-ins very easily from the check-in screen to all your favorite social networks such as Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and even Tumblr with just one single click, and obviously, Facebook and Foursquare will check you in on their services for that place as well, whereas when a check-in is shared with Twitter, a link will be tweeted with a link to the Gowalla page for that particular place and the tweet will be geotagged, and if the check-in is shared to Tumblr, the venue’s icon and name will then be made into a Tumblr post on the users blog, with text like “I’m at VENUE”
Gowalla 3.0 is currently an iPhone-only app, you can download it from here, but the Android version is said to be launching in a few weeks, and the iPad and BlackBerry versions will soon be updated as well.
Via TechCrunch
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