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Only Shenanigans?A Gowalla How-To

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Ralph Hutterwww.pixelfreund.ch | www.twitter.com/pixelfreund

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What the heck is Gowalla?

Location Based Social Network

Location Based Info Services

Virtual GeoCaching

Augmented Reality

Twitter Replacement

Just a (mobile) Game

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Gowalla Clients

iPhone App

Mobile Website m.gowalla.com

Website www.gowalla.com

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The Objectives?

Collect Bonus items (for logins)

Vault 100 hidden items

Collect pins for check Ins, completing

trips, founding spots etc.

Tweet „I am here“-indication

Create and found Spots

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Good to know

You can‘t carry more than 10 items

The list of missing items is changingfrequently

You‘ll find the missing items list– In your profile on www.gowalla.com

– With Gowalla Tools

You can‘t move back accidentally vaulteditems

You can adjust the position of new spots on the website

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Dos and Donts

Do

Share items

Add and describe new spots (carefully )

Found existing places

Adjust /edit your founded spots on

Website

Tweet relevant facts about the spot

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Dos and Donts

Don‘t

Tweet each and every check-in

Invite people you don‘t know as friends

Create spots twice

Set „Spam“ or fake spots

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Phenomenons

Thousands of user‘s homes

– With funny names like:

HQ, home, kitchen, batch, mother in

law, homebase

Bloggers creating virtual lounges in highly

frequented places

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IPHONE APP

Tap, tap, schrabbel, schrabbel

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Gowalla Passport

It‘s like your personal

passport with stamps in

it.

Vault Items here

Check In

Add new Spots

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Nearby Spots

Nearby Spot

Browse by Categories

Hint:Browse by Category if an item

does not appear on the list

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Spots

Check in

Found spot

Browse items to swap

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People

You will be

surprised, how many

people will cross your

way

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Items

Swap missing items

(and vault afterwards)

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Check in

Send a (spot-

relevant) status

message to Twitter or

Facebook

Use rarely

Don‘t spam your

friends

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Bonus Items

Oh yeah!

Bonus items won‘t

drop, if you have 10

items in your pack

Vault and found often

Certain items drop

according to type of

spot (Slice of Pizza at

an Italian Restaurant)

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Items in Spots

Check spot whether

there is a missing

item you need

Swap with items from

your pack

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People in Spots

Get founder

whenever possible

Only a limited number

per spot possible

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MOBILE WEBSITE

http://m.gowalla.com

Klick, klack.

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Mobile Website

Web NOT iPhone App

Use on all cell phones

with browser

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GOWALLA TOOLS

Klick, klack.

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Web App

www.gowallatools.com

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Missing Items

Check missing items

before vaulting

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WEBSITE /

WWW.GOWALLA.COM

Klick, klack.

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Passport / Account

Check edit your own

spots

Check missing items

Check popularity of

your spots

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Missing items

Be aware: Missing

Items change

frequently

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My trips

Create your own trips

Trips must have at

least 3 spots

Don‘t forget to push

the publish button

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Spots

Edit your spots

– Description

– Position on Map

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Shenanigans?You decide!. Get into the game and try yourself. What about

Foresquare? Not even half the fun…

Only Shenanigans?

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Tools / Links

http://www.gowalla.com

http://m.gowalla.com

http://gowallatools.com/

http://iphone.gowallatools.com/

http://erikschimmel.de/gowalla-

handbuch/Gowalla Tools

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Thank you!Go out and check in.

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Ralph Hutterwww.pixelfreund.ch | www.twitter.com/pixelfreund