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Pages. Brand. Test. Australia Facebook Statistics. Microsoft Outlook 2010 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs. View advertising report. Facebook Places raises profile of check-in apps. By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — Are location-based mobile services going Places because of Facebook's new feature? It's been available for less than a month, but Facebook Places — which lets you share your physical location online —appears to have put trendy location-based services and check-in apps on the map, industry analysts say. With Facebook's 500 million members as its potential audience, Places could entice smartphone-wielding consumers, many of whom are unfamiliar with check-in apps, to use such services to connect with friends face-to-face, find discounts on the move and get neighborhood news.

Facebook has not disclosed user data, but tech industry investors and analysts say the new app could be a catalyst as businesses look to cash in on the use of social media by a growing mobile audience. Indeed, location services may prove to be the most "social" of social-networking services, says Sam Altman, CEO of leading vendor Loopt. A Facebook phone? Going Places. Social Media Audit. HUGE: Facebook Lets Admins Unmerge Places And Pages. Facebook has provided a nice little virtual stocking stuffer for all those Page administrator who’ve made the mistake of merging their Page with a Place, not knowing the impact.

Now, you will be able to unmerge your page and place based on a feature discovered by the creators of the “Unmerge Places & My Business Page” Facebook Page. While some people are still reporting that the feature is not available, we’ve verified that the feature has been rolled out to some administrators. Many Page administrators have been calling on Facebook to create this feature for months. We’ve even received phone calls from people trying to figure out how to unmerge their Place and Page as it can have a somewhat devastating effect. Josh Constine of InsideFacebook was also able to get his hands on the following screenshot of the feature:

“Photo Memories” Coming to Facebook Places? While checking into a Facebook Places location recently, one Mashable reader noticed a new tab: Photo Memories. We've been unable to duplicate the same tab ourselves, which means Facebook may be testing this feature with a small number of users first before committing to a larger roll-out. But this offering is consistent with how Facebook has presented its newest feature.

At its launch, Facebook's Vice President of Product, Chris Cox, described Places as a digital repository for all your location-based memories. He described a couple's children being able to use Facebook Places data to pinpoint the spot of their parents' first kiss, for example. We can imagine that tagging images with a given location or uploading images of a specific location to that location's Places page would fit nicely into how Facebook has positioned Places so far. Publisher- Virtue.

Oracle Social Relationship Management delivers the first, unified solution for social monitoring, marketing, applications, engagement and analysis, and it fully integrates products from Vitrue including Publisher, Tabs, Shops, Games, Open Graph Object and Analytics. For Facebook | Customer Service Software from Parature Inc. How To Create A Facebook Page Tutorial. Gloria Jeans. A Fascinating Look At The Numbers Behind Social Media.

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