Google Lat Long Blog: My Places now helps you manage your important locations

Almost every day you encounter new places and businesses, whether it’s a new store you spotted on your commute to work, or a restaurant you visited with friends over the weekend. To date, you’ve been able to star places on Google Maps, rate them via Google Places, or add them to a customized map with your own icons and annotations through My Maps.

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Google Lat Long Blog: My Places now helps you manage your important locations

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Twitter Gets Serious About Location Based Services, Businesses Can Claim Locations (The Blog Herald)

In a move that places Twitter in direct competition with other location based services including Foursquare and Gowalla, the social networking company has announced the option for businesses to claim their locations. The new feature, which shows up in the users feed can be seen in the screen capture on this page (located above). The [...]

Source : The Blog Herald

Explore : Blogosphere, Foursquare, Social Network, Technology, Twitter

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Google Latitude for Android now lets you track your friends' locations in real time (Download Squad)

... to your blog, but it's never caught on the way more game-centric location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla have. Latitude reported 3 million active users earlier this year, but Foursquare has since passed it up, aided by the launch of Facebook Places. This update to the Google Maps Android app gives Latitude something the other guys don't have: the ability to temporarily see a friend's...

Source : Download Squad

Explore : Google, Google Android, Internet, Technology

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