I promise not to be more interesting than you.
OK – I have Gowalla and I have Foursquare. Foursquare is easier to use because a location checkin can be "in the vacinity."
Gowalla, on the other hand, checkin has to be at THE spot where the location was founded. I think that the draw of Gowalla is that it’s like geocaching. The rub with Gowalla is that it can take a very long time to validate a place. And, to be honest, often I don’t want to wait around that long. But I keep coming back to the application. It's like a game.
Gowalla has some frustrations: like, how do you get items? And, to be a founder, you have to drop an item - which you can't do if you don't have any.
Let me know if you’re on Gowalla or Foursquare and give me your take.
I spent time last night looking around Posterous as a blogging platform. Posterous is quickly endearing because it simply makes sense. It is easy to use, it's easy to customize, and it's easy to look at.
Posterous just seems to fit the way blogging has evolved.I call my site: Really Random Stuff because that's the way I blog. I like to post photos. I like to connect other information that I find interesting. I like to write articles - but not as much as I used to when I first started blogging seven years ago. (Think about how long seven years is in web years!)
More important, I like connecting my posts with social networks I use regularly: Twitter and Facebook.
I think that the primary way blogging has changed - or, at least I've changed as a blogger, is that I no longer blog following a theme or subject line. In the past I had a blog for books, another blog for travel, another blog for personal posts. I think that Posterous does a good job at convergence.
Like others, I'm curious about Posterous and might spend some time trying to figure it out.
I'm a California with a couple of cameras and a few thoughts.
Not all those who wander are lost. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
God wishes to see people happy. ~ Anne Frank
...mystery is a great embarrassment to the modern mind. ~ Flannery O'Connor
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams
I just want to be good. ~"Alex" in A Clockwork Orange
