Facebook buys Gowalla

In the battle of the geolocation apps, Gowalla lost.
Foursquare won.
Now CNN is reporting that Facebook has bought Gowalla and plans to move the entire team from Austin to Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif.-based headquarters.
I wrote this story about the Foursquare vs. Gowalla battle for the check-ins at South by Southwest Interactive in 2010.