Topguest Includes Facebook Places Check-ins
Right off the heels of the new Facebook Places announcement, The hotel rewards location service Topguest made sure to let all of us know it too integrates with Facebook’s new location service to allow its users to check-in using Facebook Places and earn real perks and other rewards…
Read MoreFoursquare Has Best Day Ever Following Facebook Places Announcement
Following Facebook’s Places announcement popular location service Foursquare saw a spike in user signups. This comes according to a Tweet by Fourqsquare co-founder Dennis Crowley: “Just heard from The @HarryH that today was @foursquare’s biggest day ever in terms of new user signups.” @HarryH is the Twitter account for Foursquare’s lead engineer Harry Heymann. While [...]
Read MoreFacebook Partners with Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown, and Yelp for Places
It looks like all the speculation was correct. At a press event which was streamed live, Facebook finally announced their location initiative. It’s called Facebook Places and, while it shares some of the same features, it’s not the same as a Foursquare or Gowalla. In fact, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, and MyTown representatives were at the [...]
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