Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Places’

Oh how the world of check-ins feared the coming of Facebook’s killer application Places.The horrifying earthquake has faded, and Germany’s equivalent of Foursquare Friendticker is yet again filling its pockets. Read the rest of this entry »

The European spin-off of the tech-blog TechCrunch is impressed from a true guerilla campaign in Germany. Just in time for the launch of Facebook Places in the country, the advertising agency Jung von Matt (JvM) captured the position of competitors in a pirate-like matter. But how? Read the rest of this entry »

The German Facebook community can as of today use the new location-based feature Places. With this, people can let their friends know where they are and find out if anyone else is coincidentally in the area. Read the rest of this entry »

It had to come eventually: couponing and check-ins are getting married. The pair are now available through the geolocation server SCVNGR and the deal provider BuyWithMe – a love affair like that of peanut butter and chocolate, at least according to the techblog TechCrunch. As if that weren’t enough. SCVNGR offers a practical new widget for businesses on Facebook Places. Read the rest of this entry »

This is how check-ins are made fun: Topguest, a so-called all-in-one check-in service, has now integrated Facebook Places with itself. So whoever uses Facebook Places check-in service and links it to their Topguest account can collect points and use them later to help for travel.

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It doesn’t take a genius to realize what’s going on with Facebook right now. Though all of the kinks have yet to be fixed with the new Place feature, market researcher Comscore has come up with some spectacular numbers: Facebook is just one step away from beating Yahoo as the third most visited website in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Zuckerberg has officially announced the release of the long awaited Facebook Places. As usual, the service will unfortunately be only available in the USA for now, but in the updates iPhone-App, you can take a look at where you’ve got to click…

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