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See What's Hot Nearby on Facebook Places, Twitter and Yelp
Facebook Places is still virgin territory for most users, let alone developers and businesses. So how do you get the most out of a service that few people have really figured out how to use? Geo-social aggregator Hotlist thinks that by combining data from Facebook Places, Twitter , Google Maps and Yelp , users can actually get a lot more value out of their checkins. Its app shows the popularity of nearby events and venues, whether or not your friends are there, the male-female ratio at a given spot, and recent Yelp reviews and Twitter posts for any location you might want to hit up. It’s one of the first Facebook Places API integrations we’ve seen, and it’s doing a pretty thorough job of combining a ton of unstructured (from the user’s perspective) data into truly useful tidbits of actionable information. For an on-the-go-oriented application, it helps to have a strong suite of mobile apps.
A week after rumors surfaced about Facebook’s acquisition of New York-based check-in-to-everything service Hot Potato , CNET’s Caroline McCarthy reports that the company’s long-awaited plan to enter the geolocation check-in space may finally be at hand. At a time when the social network is supposedly in lock-down mode , bracing for battle with Google’s supposed Facebook-killer, the debut of geolocation could give it an interesting edge. While specific details about the social network’s plans in the space are still speculative, McCarthy’s sources say it might be integrating existing check-in startups through their respective APIs in an effort to make location a key part of the service — effectively creating what GigaOm is calling ‘Facebook Places.’
Facebook tiptoes closer to launching geolocation | VentureBeat (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook's Location Feature Gets More Hands on Deck With Acquisition of Ex-Googler Startup NextStop (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook will unveil its entry into the location-based social networking space someday and today's acquisition of innovative trip-sharing service NextStop will undoubtedly influence what Facebook users eventually get to see. NextStop was founded by a team of ex-Googlers and best-known for an HTML5 mobile web site that makes innovative use of location and Creative Commons media posted online about places. Check out the screenshots below of the mobile app, now set to be shut down as the company transitions into becoming a part of the Facebook development team. Might the Facebook Local product end up including collections of places organized by users around the world? NextStop is releasing all its existing guides under Creative Commons licenses, but says the same type of work will continue at Facebook.Covering the basics Places is restricted to basic location-confirmed check-ins - who is where, when - shunning mayorships and badges and leaving any sort of advertising up to third-party developers. This minimalist functionality leaves out some of the fun out of checking in, but it makes sense if Facebook's plan is simply to place its 500 million users on a dynamic map.
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Location
What Happens If Facebook Commoditizes the Check-In? | Charles Hudson's Weblog (Build 20100722155716)
I’ve been playing with Facebook Places for a few days. It’s a really simple to use application. I am not sure if it’s going to “kill” Foursquare, but I am pretty confident that it will succeed. Facebook was supposed to “kill” Twitter by focusing more attention on status updates and the like.
Will Facebook Places Pay Off for Location-Based Companies? - NYTimes.com
One company, Placepop , is looking to give Facebook users insight into their own check-ins as well as their friends. The new Facebook application also shows trending check-ins, similar to topics on Twitter. As of right now, the top three trending check-in locations are all in California, including AT&T Park (where the San Francisco Giants play), Facebook HQ and Hollywood Bowl (a place for concerts).
Alexia Tsotsis works for TechCrunch as a writer. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles... → Learn More Let’s just pretend for a second that Facebook Places aka Facesquare is a charitable attempt on Facebook’s part to quell check-in fatigue by making nice with Foursquare , Gowalla, Booyah and Yelp (and not another attempt by Facebook to turn the world into this ).
Facebook Places Vs. The Location-Based World (Build 20100722155716)
The conventional wisdom is that this is very bad news for location-based social networks like Foursquare , Loopt , and Gowalla . Facebook is entering their space with its 400 million users; what chance do they have? We're not convinced. Details about Facebook's location strategy are lacking, but we would be astonished if location didn't end up as part of Facebook's new Open Graph API. Meanwhile, Foursquare and Loopt already work on open APIs (though Gowalla does not). We think Facebook won't try to set itself up as an alternative to these services, but rather as an integral part of them; location data from all of them will end up on Facebook, making it the primary owner of where you are.
Everybody Is Wrong About Facebook's Foursquare-Killer (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook's Places Feature About to Launch (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook's location service " Places " is speeding towards an imminent launch, but will take the primary form of an Application Programming Interface (API) for other location specialist services to plug-into. That according to a report by CNet's Caroline McCarthy this afternoon. When Places does launch, if it's executed well, it could have very big impacts on the Facebook user experience, on our relationships with the real-world places we visit and on the traditional local media that has informed us about those places throughout history. What Will People Do With Facebook Places?
Facebook Places is almost here, and we’re about to find out just what geolocation concoction Facebook has been cooking up for the last few months. We’re here live at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, for a press event. The world’s largest social network is expected to unveil its new geolocation features, dubbed by most “Facebook Places.” How will Facebook handle geolocation?
Facebook Launches Its Location Features [LIVE]
Facebook Places: What It Is, What It Isn't, And Why It May Change The World | Forrester Blogs (Build 20100722155716)
Today Facebook revealed its long-anticipated geolocation offering called “Places.” In many respects, Facebook’s offering doesn’t expand on the functionality you can find in current location-based services such as foursquare — you can check in at a place, share your location with friends, see who is nearby, and add a place. In fact, the most important contribution Facebook is making to the geolocation social space is not in form but scale. While foursquare counts around 2.5 million users in its base, Facebook has 500 million.Facebook steals Foursquare's location crown
Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable , a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- Facebook this week launched "Places," a service that allows any user to "check in" to restaurants, stores and other local businesses -- thereby sharing their location with friends. The new feature is virtually identical to the much-hyped location startups Foursquare and Gowalla , leading to the obvious question: Are these upstarts now doomed? I'd stop far short of declaring their death -- the market for location-based services is large enough to accommodate many large businesses -- but both will have to come to terms with the fact that they are no longer the biggest game in town. Identical featuresIn the weeks since Facebook launched its location service Places, it has been refining the product while users and businesses get more comfortable and explore its potential. Places is being further integrated around the site, with check-ins listed on the Events home page and in the right sidebar. Businesses have begun claiming their Places, opening that Place’s wall to user posts, photos, and more.
Facebook Places – Product Updates and User Behavior Three Weeks In
Facebook Places raises profile of check-in apps - USATODAY.com
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 .Now Showing: Aggregated Places Checkin Feed Stories
When multiple friends separately check in to a Place, users may now see an aggregated Places checkin story in their news feed. Users will see one friend’s full checkin complete with name, those tagged, Place, optional description, timestamp, comments and Likes, then all that data except the Place the checkins have in common for each additional friend. This new story makes users aware of locations that are trending amongst their network, and lets them see different perspectives on the Place as well as who’s checkin gets the most Likes or interesting comments. The ordering of friends in the aggregated story is not chronologically based on the time of the checkins, but appears to order friends by who you interact with the most.Facebook - II - Features - Places - Privacy