Facebook buy Gowalla service to beef up Timeline

Preeminent amusing arrangement Facebook has acquired area check-in and biking account Gowalla, letters CNN. Facebook Covers The accretion was allegedly fabricated in adjustment to bolster the capabilities of the new Timeline interface that Facebook has been advancing to cycle out beyond the account soon.

Most of the Gowalla team, including its architect Josh Williams, will move to the Palo Alto offices of Facebook to accompany its team. The Timeline affection is said to be the focus of the Gowalla team.

It’s cryptic how absolutely the Gowalla account will advice Facebook to advance Timeline — a affection that allows users to annal backwards through their history, both on and off Facebook — although a antecedent quoted by the advertisement says that “it’s a absolute match, Gowalla’s eyes is about humans cogent stories, and Facebook’s eyes for Timeline is about belief about important moments in life.”

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Facebook aswell has a bounded appointment in Austin, area Gowalla is based. Some of the Gowalla aggregation will break there.

The approaching of the standalone Gowalla app isn’t bright at this point, although Facebook’s analysis of added projects like Beluga, which it bankrupt into messaging, as able-bodied as Hot Potato, which went to Places, leads us to accept that Gowalla’s absolutely attractive app will a lot of acceptable go away.

Gowalla had afresh confused abroad from area check-ins to become a biking and journaling assistant. Facebook Covers

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