http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/ Slippery thoughts. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/comment-page-1/#comment-153 babalugats Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:27:13 +0000 http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/?p=268#comment-153 how do you know if one of the items you receive is one of the 93 unique items or not? how do you know if one of the items you receive is one of the 93 unique items or not?

]]> http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Guerrilla Readers » Gowalla – virtuální geocaching a jeho využití pro knihovny Wed, 12 May 2010 07:50:51 +0000 http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/?p=268#comment-149 [...] Gowalla for beginners: http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/ [...] […] Gowalla for beginners: http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/ […]

]]> http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Peeking Into The Future of the Web Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:14:37 +0000 http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/?p=268#comment-135 [...] And if there needed to be another proof that social net­works play a cru­cial part in this indus­try, Andrew made me real­ized that in the small cir­cle sur­round­ing Ben­jamin, there was another famil­iar face I had dis­cov­ered while becom­ing addicted to Gowalla in Orlando. I intro­duced myself to Gregg Pol­lack as “his arch-nemesis” since he’s invol­un­tar­ily the per­son who made me real­ize how potent the mix of game mechan­ics and geomap­ping in Gowalla was. When I started play­ing in late 2009 it seemed like “check­ing in” where you actu­ally were plan­ning to spend some time was the only way to “play” Gowalla and it was hard then to see the addic­tive poten­tial of the game. Under­stand­ably, most peo­ple go to the same places every­day: home, work, lunch, work and home again with some occa­sional detours here and there. But never any­thing very adven­tur­ous. When I first noticed the num­ber of stamps Pol­lack had col­lected, it helped me real­ized there was another dimen­sion to that game, some­thing that could incen­tivize a crowd enough to have it cre­ate your data­base for you. Indeed Gowalla doesn’t ask busi­ness and loca­tions to cre­ate their vir­tual equiv­a­lents, it sim­ply lets thou­sands upon thou­sands of busy lit­tle ants do a rel­a­tively far less daunt­ing task them­selves. And at the end of the road, Gowalla can use the road that was paved by their users to cre­ate part­ner­ship with some of the busi­nesses that were indexed in the process. This whole Gowalla busi­ness requires a essay of its own, but in the mean time you can accounts of my early dwellings in the realm of Gowalla here and there. [...] […] And if there needed to be another proof that social net­works play a cru­cial part in this indus­try, Andrew made me real­ized that in the small cir­cle sur­round­ing Ben­jamin, there was another famil­iar face I had dis­cov­ered while becom­ing addicted to Gowalla in Orlando. I intro­duced myself to Gregg Pol­lack as “his arch-nemesis” since he’s invol­un­tar­ily the per­son who made me real­ize how potent the mix of game mechan­ics and geomap­ping in Gowalla was. When I started play­ing in late 2009 it seemed like “check­ing in” where you actu­ally were plan­ning to spend some time was the only way to “play” Gowalla and it was hard then to see the addic­tive poten­tial of the game. Under­stand­ably, most peo­ple go to the same places every­day: home, work, lunch, work and home again with some occa­sional detours here and there. But never any­thing very adven­tur­ous. When I first noticed the num­ber of stamps Pol­lack had col­lected, it helped me real­ized there was another dimen­sion to that game, some­thing that could incen­tivize a crowd enough to have it cre­ate your data­base for you. Indeed Gowalla doesn’t ask busi­ness and loca­tions to cre­ate their vir­tual equiv­a­lents, it sim­ply lets thou­sands upon thou­sands of busy lit­tle ants do a rel­a­tively far less daunt­ing task them­selves. And at the end of the road, Gowalla can use the road that was paved by their users to cre­ate part­ner­ship with some of the busi­nesses that were indexed in the process. This whole Gowalla busi­ness requires a essay of its own, but in the mean time you can accounts of my early dwellings in the realm of Gowalla here and there. […]

]]> http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Drive-By Gowalla & Other Challenges | Olivier Lacan { thoughts } Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:47:12 +0000 http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/?p=268#comment-70 <p>[...] you become a Way­farer as soon as you checkin at 250 dif­fer­ent spots. I listed these in a pre­vi­ous post. There are more exotic chal­lenges (like Code Mon­key and Get Out With Incase) but gen­er­ally [...]</p> […] you become a Way­farer as soon as you checkin at 250 dif­fer­ent spots. I listed these in a pre­vi­ous post. There are more exotic chal­lenges (like Code Mon­key and Get Out With Incase) but gen­er­ally […]

]]> http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/2010/01/06/gowalla-for-beginners/comment-page-1/#comment-49 kew Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:53:32 +0000 http://www.olivierlacan.com/blog/?p=268#comment-49 <p>A great start for Gowalla, I have been using gowalla for so many months, and I still learn a few things or two from here...</p> A great start for Gowalla, I have been using gowalla for so many months, and I still learn a few things or two from here…

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