Facebook Buys Gowalla

How does Facebook keep pace in mobile with the built-for-mobile and insanely well-designed Path? Here’s one piece. 

Assuming this deal is finalized — great scoop by Laurie Segall — I’m really happy for the Gowalla team. They were putting an emphasis on design and attention to detail in the mobile space well before it was the cool thing to do. And they stayed true to their roots and did it all from Austin, Texas.

Google should have scooped them up way before Facebook could. But well… Yeah. 

Related: Facebook has a lot of fucking awesome design talent at their disposal now.

Update 12/5: The deal has been finalized.

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    available talent… But what are they doing with them? Doesn’t seem like much
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    an interesting development. Gowalla was a product...which I always admired
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