Gowalla for iPhone
The Gowalla, app from Alamofire is designed for the iPhone. This new app is basically for the location based social networking. The main purpose behind the design of this app is to share your comings and goings with your beloved and friends. You can also choose Gowalla or Twitter and Facebook too.
For this app to work you must have iPhone with built in GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation so that your exact location can be known. It can very well inform you if you are in or anywhere near an already created “Spot”. If there isn’t any created you can easily create one yourself. Spot here can be anything from a coffee shop to bars, restaurant, and retail store. If your Spot has been very well selected then you can just check-in. Then you can easily toggle the share with twitter/facebook option. You can also keep the information just limited to few people.
You get your Gowalla passport stamped each time you check in somewhere. More the places you check in more you will discover items that are connected to specific venues. You can also pick new item but you have to compromise with one of yours. This becomes fun when you watch items being picked and then dropped by others. Every city here has its own unique featured spots and recommended trips. You can explore them as you wish to and collect various items and stamps too.
The look and the design of the app is one of the best. This app is designed with keeping the usability in mind. The layout of the city and the areas are impressive and thoughtful. Playing around with Gowalla is lot fun.
If you are going out for dinner, but you don’t know what to eat and what is around you, it’s sometimes difficult to decide. This app does solve this problem in a brilliant and funny way. Using the GPS in the iPhone locates random restaurant around you according to area, type of food and price in a slot machine style. Just shake (yes you read correctly… shake as a martini) your iphone and the slot machine will start spinning. After a quick spin you’ll get a random choice, if you like it you can look for more info (telephone, reviews, location ecc…) or if you want another pick, keep shaking. You can also lock any or all of the slot machine wheels. So if you know which cousine to eat and how much to spend you can lock those wheels and urbanspoon will pick a resaturant based on those choices. It works in North America and London.
