Gowalla’s new Web site has got it really wrong, removing several key features like items
1) When you look at a spot now on the Web site, there's no mention of who created the site, who founded it, and the timeline has nothing about the items dropped or picked up at the site. Founders and items are, in a nutshell, the key differentiator of Gowalla. But now it's like they're trying to completely minimize the role of virtual objects; there's no mention of them anywhere except at the bottom right of your own profile. 2) The home page tells me nothing about where I've been, just where my friends have been. This also is a big problem -- I use Gowalla to track both, and so do most people I know. 3) Search is broken -- returning no results. It's a new launch, but come on. These failures in QA, given that this service has so much privacy at stake, is awful. 4) The Feedback tab is removed -- it was a great little feature.
posted at 2:34 pm
on May. 12, 2010
