Tag: Facebook Places
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Facebook, 2nd Edition
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Facebook, 2nd Edition — Published October 4, 2011 In the days B.C. (Before Computers), losing touch with friends and family was a part of life. You’d graduate and all your school chums would wander off in different directions. You’d leave your job and lose valuable contacts. Aunts, uncles, and cousins…
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Location-Based Check-Ins on the Rise with Consumers
Just when you thought American’s love affair with their mobile phones couldn’t get any closer. A recent study shows that an increasing number of mobile-device users — a.k.a. would-be customers — are taking advantage of geosocial and location-based check-in services such as Facebook Places, Gowalla and Foursquare. One in five smartphone users currently use location-based…
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Why We’re Still Lost In Geolocation
Business owners who anticipate that geosocial services like Facebook Places, Google Latitude, Foursquare, SCVNGR, and Gowalla will be the next best way to reach new customers may be waiting a while longer yet. Geosocial, or geolocation, services — which allow their users to send short messages online or by text to update friends on their…
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Claim Your ‘Place’
After months of speculation, Facebook made it official: It’s in the location game. The company released its retort to Foursquare in August, a location-based check-in tool called Facebook Places that enables customers to see a map on their iPhone or other mobile device that includes your business (the Place) and a list of their Facebook…