You might want to back up "competing just fine" with something.
Numbers on Compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/foursquare.com+gowalla.com/) suggest that Foursquare is pushing quite a bit more traffic than Gowalla, at least on the web. Most reports suggest that Foursquare is also beating out Gowalla in terms of users.
(Full disclosure: I have friends at Foursquare, Gowalla, and on the Lift project. I don't really care about any one of them "winning", I just like facts.)
I guess I was speaking more anecdotally, in terms of both sites providing roughly equivalent functionality and supporting non-trivial load. Thanks for the analytics link though. I didn't realize the traffic disparity was that high.
Comments
You might want to back up "competing just fine" with something.
Numbers on Compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/foursquare.com+gowalla.com/) suggest that Foursquare is pushing quite a bit more traffic than Gowalla, at least on the web. Most reports suggest that Foursquare is also beating out Gowalla in terms of users.
(Full disclosure: I have friends at Foursquare, Gowalla, and on the Lift project. I don't really care about any one of them "winning", I just like facts.)
I guess I was speaking more anecdotally, in terms of both sites providing roughly equivalent functionality and supporting non-trivial load. Thanks for the analytics link though. I didn't realize the traffic disparity was that high.