April 2010
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Gowalla for iPad →
More photos of the upcoming Gowalla for IPad - According to JW it’s “coming soon”
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Curiouser and curiouser.
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March 2010
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Newest spots become oldest
Some of you have noticed (thanks @trumper) that the Gowalla Tools Map is currently showing you the 200 oldest spots rather than the 200 most recent spots. I’ve been playing around with the code this morning and unfortunately this is a problem with Gowalla as their maps are all suffering the same fate (if you go to http://gowalla.com/spots you’ll find that sorting by...
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Drinks Day: Americanos and Sweet Leaf Tea
There were too many people tweeting at me to do a response to the various intricacies of the “New Items” tweets that were sent today that I thought it better to put up a quick post.
First of all, let me make it clear that the tweets that start New Item are entirely automated and work by monitoring the “Missing Items” (see our post yesterday) section of Gowalla to see when...
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Missing Items Update
Gowalla has made a few changes to the items that are declared as “missing” and that are therefore displayed in Gowalla Tools as “Missing Items”. To clear this up I’ve put together a short guide as to how missing items work followed by the items that have recently changed.
So, what are missing items?
Good question! If you view your items on the Gowalla website,...
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February 2010
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Bug Fixes - 27th Feb 2010
The following changes have been made to Gowalla Tools today:
iPhone Web App
Fixed “null” error for total number of Visitors when viewing nearby spots
Fixed “null” error for total number of Check-ins when viewing nearby spots
Increased number of nearby spots displayed from 20 to 40
Website
Fixed error with Gowalla Tools Map only returning 40 spots (instead of 100)...
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Why do things break on Gowalla Tools?
I get sent a lot of messages regarding items breaking on Gowalla Tools and this has increased dramatically over the past couple of weeks. I thought I’d break in our new Tumblr blog by explaining why it is that features on Gowalla Tools break and letting you know the best way to report a bug!
So, why do things break? Well to answer that question we have to take a little jump back in...