Tag Archives: facebook

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Nov 10

Another Category Of Place You Really Don’t Want To Check In To

Posted on 24th November 2010 by Gary

There are some places you really don’t want to check into using one of the many location based social networks. There’s a variety of suggestions of this nature on the web including funeral homes, an ex-partner’s house, jail or the … Continue reading →

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Aug 10

Facebook Places; Haven’t We Been Here Before?

Posted on 31st August 2010 by Gary

A week and a half ago Facebook finally launched their Places feature to a predictable media furore over location privacy, regardless of whether it’s justified or not and, to location industry watchers at least, a strong sense of deja vu. … Continue reading →

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May 10

Facebook’s (Creepy) Bid For Your Homepage

Posted on 5th May 2010 by Gary

Most browsers have a variation on the theme of a home page, which automagically loads your favourite web page when you start the browser or open a new browser window or tab. A lot of web sites try to capitalise … Continue reading →

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Apr 10

Placebook … Facebook “Places” In The Wild

Posted on 26th April 2010 by Gary

After much teasing and tantalising, one of the long rumoured Facebook location features is out in the wild in the form of place community pages. They vary in scale from a hamlet in Spain … … through to New York … Continue reading →

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Mar 10

Genius or Desperation?

Posted on 4th March 2010 by Gary

I’m sorry Facebook but your ad targeting systems are wildly inaccurate and reduce that valuable screen estate to the right hand side of my browser window to irrelevant line noise. Google’s and Yahoo’s ad targeting is pretty darn good but … Continue reading →

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