{"id":1856,"date":"2012-05-16T10:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2014-10-22T19:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:19:49","slug":"gowalla-vs-foursquare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2012\/05\/gowalla-vs-foursquare\/","title":{"rendered":"Gowalla vs. Foursquare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">***Update*** I have canceled my Foursquare account and am looking for a good looking alternative ***Update***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was very sad when Facebook bought Gowalla out and announced that it was an aq-hire (where a company buys out another for the talent).\u00a0 I remember choosing Gowalla for two very specific reasons 1) I could easily add locations and 2) they had a beautiful interface.\u00a0 I loved the icons for each location, which were specific for landmarks, events, buildings, and other such fun and cool stuff.\u00a0 I enjoyed scrolling through my buttons to see the states I had been in and the achievements.\u00a0 I also happened to like the orange color and kangaroo logo!\u00a0 They were fun and conveyed and international feel.\u00a0 I was looking forward to using it as I traveled.<\/p>\n<p>I remember checking out Foursquare and not selecting it because it was blue and had generic icons for its locations.\u00a0 Blah!\u00a0 I did move to Foursquare when Gowalla announced its aq-hire.\u00a0 I used it for a while \u2026 the only compelling thing \u2026 friends.\u00a0 Oh wait, I already use Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to close my Foursquare account and try other services that connect to Facebook &amp; Twitter.\u00a0 I prefer a beautiful UI over application popularity &amp; no, I am not interested in boring, plain, generic UI.<\/p>\n<p>So long Foursquare!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***Update*** I have canceled my Foursquare account and am looking for a good looking alternative ***Update*** I was very sad when Facebook bought Gowalla out and announced that it was an aq-hire (where a company buys out another for the talent).\u00a0 I remember choosing Gowalla for two very specific reasons 1) I could easily add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232,728,729,730,319,731],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-facebook","tag-foursquare","tag-gowalla","tag-social-check-in","tag-twitter","tag-ui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}