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Facebook (finally) gets location

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010


Image by Steve Snodgrass

This year has mostly been tagged by bloggers and social media experts as the year of location. This has been proven true as many brands are now spending a considerable amount of their marketing and sales efforts leveraging on its capabilities to their advantage.

With services like Foursquare and Gowalla currently at the top of the geolocation heap, you have to wonder where the usually forward-facing Facebook is in the location ethos. While the company has forayed into other social media avenues, location seems to be a field they have yet to jump into.

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Location, Location, Location

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

photo from D. Bjorn, Catchin’ Up

As mobility and location flourish, they bring with them constant innovations to better leverage the trends and technology that make them a hit with consumers. Below are two of the biggest new stories on the location front. (more…)

I “like” it. Do you “like” it?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

image from Oversocialized

So Facebook rolled out the “like” button and threw page owners, Facebook users and Internet surfers for a bit of a loop and added a ton of questions to their laundry list of existing Facebook marketing and privacy questions.

So let’s answer just a few… (more…)

What’s With Foursquare? Part II

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

photo by MariSheibley

As Foursquare continues to gain popularity, the capabilities are expanding and businesses are learning how to leverage the mobile program and encourage in-store traffic through incentives. (more…)

What’s With Foursquare?

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

So if you aren’t familiar, a “relatively new” network, Foursquare is getting a lot of attention.

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