Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products

An anonymous reader writes "Following the announcement about its major privacy revamp this week, Facebook has announced it is killing two of its products. The company has axed Facebook Places, although it still adding new location features at the same time. In addition, the social network has has axed Facebook Deals, although Check-in Deals will still be available."

Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products

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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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Getting Great Recommendations Using the Google Places App for iPhone [Video]

Professor Emoji is back with another lesson, this time he teaches how to get great recommendations using the Google Places app for iPhone.

Getting Great Recommendations Using the Google Places App for iPhone [Video]

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Hotpot Now Part of Google Places

In November 2010, Google Hotpot, a new recommendation engine to help people discover great new places when they search on Google was launched. It's simple: Rate and review the places you know, add friends whose opinions you trust and we serve you up personalized recommendations based on those tastes.

Hotpot Now Part of Google Places

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Google Lat Long Blog: Hotpot is going Places

(Cross-posted from the Google Places Blog.)


Last November, we introduced Hotpot, our recommendation engine to help people discover great new places when they search on Google. It’s simple: Rate and review the places you know, add friends whose opinions you trust and we serve you up personalized recommendations based on those tastes.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Hotpot is going Places

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Google Lat Long Blog: Check in, gain status, and unlock offers at more places with Google Latitude

Last month, we rolled out Google Latitude check-in offers for 60 places around Austin. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with some great partners to let you unlock check-in offers at thousands of places across the U.S.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Check in, gain status, and unlock offers at more places with Google Latitude

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Google Instant for Places View Now Available

Opps! a big slip on my side, I've visited Google blog over five time since Saturday morning, and every time over sighted this news.

Google Instant for Places View Now Available

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Facebook Places deals are coming to Europe.

Facebook Places deals are coming to Europe.

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Facebook Places deals are coming to Europe.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Share your photos about Places

When looking for information about a place on Google Maps, I immediately look for photos to help decide if it’s the right place for the occasion I have in mind. Whether looking for images of a restaurant’s cuisine, or getting a feel for the ambiance at a local bookstore, photos immediately help me learn more about a place.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Share your photos about Places

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Comment on Google Places iPhone App Now Available by Mike Perry

Places is useful, but it'd be more useful if it cached data (at least on my 3G). Check for restaurants, and it takes 15-20 seconds to load the data over WiFi. Check for coffee shops and it takes about the same time. Then check restaurants again and everything must reload via cellular or WiFi. That's unnecessary and can be a nuisance when you're in a hurry. Places should cache the last few items checked. It also needs a way to find and store a location, so you can check a spot before you get there. All in all, it's a good start, but only a start.

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When will Facebook Places roll out to all countries?

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Places Rated: Scotland's Moray Firth Coast

The November/December issue of Traveler features our annual "Places Rated" survey of destination stewardship, and this year 340 expert panelists rated 99 coastal destinations around the world. Here on the blog, we're going to highlight some of these coastal destinations and are interested in adding your feedback to the mix. What do you think?

Scotland: Moray Firth Coast, Inverness to Peterhead
Rating: 76 -- "Top Rated" category

A popular vacation spot for more than a century, this coast offers "outstanding cliff scenery" and maintains "a strong community feeling." Seasonal and year-round residents appear to live in relative harmony. Tourism keeps "pretty coastal villages" economically afloat as Scotland's fishing industry declines.

Why did the place earn this score? Read representative panelist comments after the jump.

Places Rated: Scotland's Moray Firth Coast

Backlink: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/places-rated-scotlands-coast.html

Places Rated: Tanzania's Swahili Coast

The November/December issue of Traveler features our annual "Places Rated" survey of destination stewardship, and this year 340 expert panelists rated 99 coastal destinations around the world. Here on the blog, we're going to highlight some of these coastal destinations and are interested in adding your feedback to the mix. What do you think?

Tanzania: Swahili Coast
Rating: 61 -- "In the Balance" category

Given its historical appeal, natural beauty, and location in a relatively politically stable country, it's not surprising that Tanzania's coastline has emerged as one of Africa's tourism hotspots. The region "has so much potential" but will face numerous bumps in the road on its journey to becoming a sustainable destination--things like political corruption, insufficient infrastructure, and poor waste management.

Why did the place earn this score? Read representative panelist comments after the jump.

Places Rated: Tanzania's Swahili Coast

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Places Rated: British Columbia's Gulf Islands

The November/December issue of Traveler features our annual "Places Rated" survey of destination stewardship, and this year 340 expert panelists rated 99 coastal destinations around the world. Here on the blog, we're going to highlight some of these coastal destinations and are interested in adding your feedback to the mix. How do you think they're doing?

British Columbia: Gulf Islands
Rating: 78 -- "Top Rated" category

Scattered across the Georgia Strait between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia, the Gulf Islands enjoy a surprisingly dry and balmy climate. "Residents generally place a high importance on the quality of the environment and the way of life on the islands," and tourism is sustainably managed.

Why did the place earn this score? Read representative panelist comments after the jump:

Facebook Places added Deals to their location checkins

I know I'm a little bit late on this one, but about 2 weeks ago Facebook added a deals feature to Places. The deals feature allows retailers to put up deals to people checking in at their establishment. The deals come in 4 different varieties individ

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Places Rated: Cambodia's Sihanoukville Coastline

The November/December issue of Traveler features our annual "Places Rated" survey of destination stewardship, and this year 340 expert panelists rated 99 coastal destinations around the world. Here on the blog, we're going to highlight some of these coastal destinations and are interested in adding your feedback to the mix. What do you think?

Cambodia: Sihanoukville
Rating: 38 -- "In Trouble" category

Cambodia's premier coastal resort "has some serious issues to address in terms of sustainability," including corruption involved in development decisions, poor waste management, and "a low aesthetic of the built environment."

Why did the place earn this score? Read representative panelist comments after the jump.

Places Rated: Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast

The November/December issue of Traveler features our annual "Places Rated" survey of destination stewardship, and this year 340 expert panelists rated 99 coastal destinations around the world. Here on the blog, we're going to highlight some of these coastal destinations and are interested in adding your feedback to the mix.

Bulgaria: Black Sea Coast
Rating: 49 -- "Facing Trouble" category


Resort developers are snatching up large swaths of Bulgaria's coastline, increasingly regarded by price-conscious Europeans as an affordable alternative to Spain and Greece. They have left in their wake a built landscape that "does not adequately reflect the area's cultural resources and heritage." Nevertheless, travelers who venture far enough off the beaten path find pockets of "untouched natural areas." Nesebur's well-preserved Old Town is worth a visit.

Why did the place earn this score? Read representative panelist comments after the jump.

People, Places and Now With Retailigence, Things

So in the virtual world, what you may like to search for could be pretty damn near anything under the sun from the mating habits of the African tree frog, to “Google stalking” someone… anyone from an ex-girlfriend to a new potential employee.

The Radar: Writing Tips from Susan Orlean, Skip the Line at Customs, Spectacular Places of Worship

• Tonight at Nat Geo HQ, Contributing Editor Don George sits down with Greg Mortenson, the best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea, at our sold-out NGLive! event. Don last took to the stage to interview Susan Orlean where she dished these travel-writing tips: find a connection, be in the moment, and value surprise. Read more about Don's interview with Susan here and stay tuned to IT for a re-cap of tonight's chat.

• Global Entry, a two-year pilot program run by the U.S. Customs and Border Control, helps you breeze through arrival security check points, eliminating the dreaded customs line that typically weaves itself around international arrivals terminals. For $100 and after a government background check and round of finger printing, U.S. citizens and permanent residents can skip the line and go through customs at Global Entry kiosks that take an average of 40 seconds to clear. Hoping to make the program a permanent feature by the end of the year, U.S. Customs says Global Entry helps separate out low-risk travelers allowing them to focus more resources on those travelers who might be considered a risk. [WSJ.com]

• Matador has put together a photo essay of "The World's 12 Most Spectacular Houses of Worship," including the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Mecca in Saudia Arabia, and Il Duomo in Florence. [Matador]

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Pew: 4% Of Americans Use Location Services (Oh, And There's That Facebook Places Thing)

Pew Internet, a think tank that regularly publishes research reports about technology, has a new study out today: it says that 4% of online American adults use location-based services. That may sound like a fairly small number given how much attentio

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