“around The Web” Feature On Facebook Pages Shows Foursquare, Other Location Links (inside Facebook)

Some Facebook Places Pages for local businesses and locations are now showing an “Around The Web” panel listing of links to corresponding venue pages of the sites of Facebook’s Places partners: Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, SCVNGR, and Booyah. These links could help businesses drive traffic and checkins to their other online presences. Foursquare tells us its inclusion in [...]

Source : Inside Facebook

Explore : Facebook, Social Network, Yelp

“Around The Web” Feature on Facebook Pages Shows Foursquare, Other Location Links (Inside Facebook)

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Flickr Search Box Now Searches ‘Everyone’s Photos, Your Contacts, and Flickr Pages’

Flickr made some changes to the search box to let you search everyone's photos, your contacts, and Flickr pages at the same time!

Flickr Search Box Now Searches ‘Everyone’s Photos, Your Contacts, and Flickr Pages’

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Facebook ‘Check-Ins’ for Events Pages on iPhone Coming Soon!

All Facebook has found that Facebook has begun testing a check-in button for event pages accessed by iPhone users. The check-in icon only shows up on the day of the event and only when users are geographically close to the specified address.

Facebook ‘Check-Ins’ for Events Pages on iPhone Coming Soon!

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Geolocation and Pages (Oliver and Graimes)

Facebook recently made their much anticipated entry to the 'check-in' service, until now dominated by rivals Gowalla and Foursquare. While the new Facebook platform does allow for users to share their checkin information across both services, it may well prove to be their undoing. Facebook is the de-facto platform for connecting with people online, perhaps even more so than email now.

Source : Oliver and Graimes

Explore : Geolocation

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Gowalla: Gowalla Highlights the Best of What's Local With City Pages, Verified Business Listings and Promotion Tools (Market Wire)

AUSTIN, TX (MARKET WIRE) Gowalla (www.gowalla.com), a social network that inspires people to keep up with friends, share the places they go and discover the extraordinary in the world around them, today announced three new features to promote local exploration -- City Pages, Verified Businesses and Venues and the Stamp Calendar. Each provides a new way to dive into the cities where we...

Source : Market Wire

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Gowalla Expands into Yelp’s Turf with City Pages and Verified Businesses (Mashable)

Gowalla is expanding into Yelp’s territory with the release of three new features that help users discover more about their city while giving businesses more control over presence on the location-based social network. The first of these three new features…

Source : Mashable

Explore : Social Network, Technology, Web 2, Yelp

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Gowalla adds polished city pages to website, new options for businesses [TNW Location] (The Next Web)

Gowalla has added some pretty significant features to its website today: city pages, the ability for businesses to claim venues as well as for venues in San Francisco, New York and Austin to reserve custom stamps/stickers. For end users, the city pages news is going to be the most important change. Each page features a [...] [ Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The...

Source : The Next Web

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Gowalla Steadily Moves Past The Check-In With City Pages, Business Listings And More (TechCrunch)

It's no secret that both Foursquare and Gowalla are expanding their location-based social networks past the check-in, developing other incentives for consumers to use the services. Gowalla, in particular, has focused on adding innovative features to its platform to make the social network more interactive, through photos and comments. Most recently, the startup added local...

Source : TechCrunch

Explore : Internet, Social Network, TechCrunch, Technology, Web 2

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Google Lat Long Blog: Business Photos from Google are now on Place pages

Six months ago, we announced the pilot of a project to take photos of business interiors. Through this program, business owners located in the U.S., Australia and Japan could invite our photographers into their establishments to take high-quality images of their businesses. Excitement from interested business owners grew quickly, and we’ve since taken photos of businesses in about 30 cities.

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