Just like the application presented earlier, this app also is included in the Social Networking category of applications that can be downloaded from the iTunes page. It is available for iPad and it is designed to enhance your online experience, by letting you to discover the world. Its developer, Alamofire, describes this app as being the social travel guide and the passport you need on your tablet.
Gowalla is available everywhere. Let’s see what it can bring you. Gowalla is an open source program, so that everyone who uses this application is free to add photos and descriptions of the places where he goes and then share them with the rest of community, which means with the rest of those who have downloaded this application for free on their iPads. To download it, you must have downloaded also the iTunes software on your iPad. This too comes for free from Apple this time.
Facebook and Twitter are of course integrated in the application, because of the reasons mentioned in the article referring to the changing of the Internet’s face. You need to communicate in this era and what other social networks can you think of? Foursquare and Tumblr are also present to enhance the sharing of the photos and the other information by those who visited a certain location. The more people use this app, the more places are described and more photos are added daily yo the collection of photos and impressions.
Gowalla lets you share photos and recommendations for your friends, but also for the others who use this app, lets you create trips and see what is happening around the world in a speciffic day, it keeps you up to date with your friends’ plans of travelling and show you what were their points of interest when they arrived to a certain country. When you will get there as well, you will know what to search for exactly from your friends. There are locations which are not named in tour guides. Those locations are usually the most popular. But what if you want to see another face of that city? You should use the recommandations of your friends and of those who used Gowalla before and travelled to that city.
The people can add information about anything they want: museums, pubs, parks, cinemas, college campuses, football stadiums, resorts and others.
