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Some Thoughts on Facebook Places
The announcement of Facebook Places frankly reminds me of the last rollout of location services by an Internet giant: Google Latitude. The media freaks out about the privacy implications (see Lifehacker on how to disable the feature). Hardly anyone can…
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Geolocation Coming to Facebook
Geolocation is apparently coming to Facebook next month. “The new location feature will have two aspects, according to the people familiar with Facebook’s plans. One will be a service offered directly by Facebook that will allow users to share their…
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Latitude Comes to the iPhone, Work Stops on Whereyougonnabe
Two items from the world of location services: Google Latitude is now available for the iPhone, via the onboard web browser (which supports location services) rather than the maps application; it doesn’t run in the background, so it won’t update…
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Fire Eagle, Meet Facebook
To be honest, I haven’t been paying close attention to Yahoo’s Fire Eagle geolocation service, but since I reported on it a year ago it’s accumulated 70 applications that use it, integrating Fire Eagle location data with everything from Movable…
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Link Roundup: Mid-July Edition
Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the…
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New Facebook Application: whereyougonnabe?
Yesterday, Peter Batty announced a new social-networking application that operates within Facebook: whereyougonnabe? In beta (naturally), this app lets you map your current and future activities and see what (and where) your friends are doing at the same time. The…
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A Facebook Mapping Application that Doesn’t Suck
The mapping applications for Facebook that appeared after the social-networking site opened up its API to developers generally sucked, in my opinion: they were rather lame user-plotted maps that didn’t do anything with data from your social network, which…
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