Posts tagged facebook places

News Media

Weekly Poll: Are You Using Facebook Places– – ReadWriteWeb
And from developers, we want to hear whether you plan to (or already have) integrated Facebook Places into your location-aware application, if relevant. …

Business Discounts Added To Facebook Places – NewsFactor Network
A new Deals service expands Facebook Places to let smartphone users find business discounts wherever they are. By tapping the Facebook …

REI Teams with Local Non-Profit Partners through Launch of Facebook® Deals – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Beginning today, for every customer who checks in at an REI store through Facebook Places, the co-op will donate $1 to a selected non-profit in their …

Location Services Overhyped– – MEDIAWEEK
Facebook plans to showcase numerous special offers via Facebook Places, such a recent jeans giveaway orchestrated by The Gap. It turns out the Foursquare …

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Facebook Places have changed the location marketing game for local businesses and how they stay visible in front of their local audience. Check out this Facebook Places video.   More

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Facebook Places: Breaking News

Facebook Places: Be your friends’ ‘big brother’–
Red Tape Chronicles: Are your friends trustworthy– If they aren’t, they might tell the world you are in some pretty crazy, or even disturbing, places, thanks to Facebook’s new ‘Places’ tool. Facebook – Social network – Online Communities – Facebook Places – Foursquare.

Facebook Places, Site’s Foursquare Competitor, Is ‘Imminent’
The long-rumored geolocation “check-in” feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET. It’s going to take the form of an application programming interface (API) for third-party companies on the Facebook developer platform, integrating existing “check-in” start-ups more deeply into the massive social-networking service and in turn permitting location-aware data to become a part of existing platform applications. More on Facebook.

News Media

Top Five Ways to Use Facebook Places Effectively – Huffington Post (blog)
This week, Facebook officially rolled out Facebook Places, its location-based service (LBS). Places allows you to easily "check in" where you are and share …

Since Introduction Of Facebook Places, Page Growth and Impressions-Per-Post … – Inside Facebook (blog)
Facebook may have been altering the algorithm on these days. One possible explanation for why Page updates were so affected is that Places pages have the …

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