Gowalla Outduels Foursquare In TIME’s 50 Best Websites

TIME Magazine releases a list of the 50 best websites on an annual basis, which highlights the best websites in a variety of categories over the span of a year. There were five social media websites honored—most people would recognize the popular professional networking website LinkedIn as well as the micro-blogging service Tumblr.

However, there was a surprising snub in the geolocation list: Foursquare was left off, and Gowalla was honored instead.

Now don’t get me wrong: there are some people out there that would say that Gowalla deserved the honor. The issue at hand, according to Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb, was that Gowalla delayed the release of their Application Programming Interface (API), while Foursquare’s API has been available for months. According to Perez, waiting around could eventually be the downfall for Gowalla.

Avid geolocation platform users are likely a member of both Foursquare and Gowalla, but Gowalla has a smaller user base than Foursquare currently does. In your opinion, does Gowalla merit a “victory” over Foursquare in TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2010? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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