Gowalla

I'm presently working on some new research, planning a further book and some lectures. So the occasional piece of material discovered while engaging in this occasional work in progress will surface on this blog. For example, I was just checking Gowalla, which I blogged about a few months back. There are now several mosques listed, and I'm curious to know how this will progress in other cities. Wales isn't listed, so here's an example from London:

Foursquare and Gowalla

Observer, Will Foursquare be the new Twitter?, 25 Apr 2010 "I asked [Robin] Dunbar if he saw anything in the evolution of online networks to suggest that the next stage might extend our social horizons in any meaningful way.

"The question really is," he said, "does the technology open up the quality of your social interaction to any great extent, and the answer to that question is, so far: not really.""

See:

Foursquare

Gowalla

In terms of research relating to this blog, it might be an interesting theme for the future. At present, neither has much 'Islam' related content (admittedly a non-scientific and rapid sweep). I did come up with this on Gowalla:

Darul Aman Mosque which has just been posted.

I'll be looking out for more of these...