What a week for the location-based space. It could be summed up as Facebook Places vs. The World in the battle for check-in supremacy. It could also be described as how Facebook Places want to be the check-in hub for location-based apps. Regardless almost everyone had an opinion about how Facebook Places would either kill Foursquare, Gowalla, yelp and other location-based startup, honestly I think most are wrong but that’s another blog post. Soon after Facebook Places was announced people were blogging about deleting their other location app profiles and more.
Before Facebook Places was announced Barcode Hero and Shopkick was launched and TriOut was showcasing more of their upcoming version two features but by the end of the week the web was still debating the value of Facebook Places. Here are 57 must read location-based articles plus videos from last week.
Videos:
TriOut Background Check-in
Shopkick App Preview
Facebook Places commercial
Facebook Places
- Going Places with Facebook
- Facebook Places: Check This Out Before You Check In
- A Field Guide to Using Facebook Places
- Who, What, When, and Now…Where
- 5 Initial Thoughts on Facebook Places
- Facebook Set To Announce Its Own Location Based Service
- 5 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Facebook Places
- Facebook Places: The Real Target Is Yelp
- Facebook Kept Thousands Of Check-Ins On Lockdown For Months. Impressive.
- The Facebook Location Perspective, Then and Now
- Facebook Vs. Foursquare: What You Need To Know About Today’s ‘Location’ Announcement
- Facebook Has Been Working On This Location Feature For 8 Months
- Everything You Need To Know About Facebook Places
- Facebook Places takes aim at Google
- Facebook steals Foursquare’s location crown
- Bing, Google get split decision in Facebook Places mapping feature
- Red Bull Alert for Facebook Engineers: Mark Zuckerberg Promises Many More Feature Launches Coming Soon to a Social Network Near You!
- Facebook Places: A Guided Tour of Features and Privacy Settings
- Facebook Places: Check This Out Before You Check In
- Facebook Places: Your Friends Are Here, But What About Your Privacy?
- Facebook Places Is An Obvious Foursquare Rip-Off And It’s Going To Be Huge
- How to change your Facebook Places privacy settings in 6 steps: Screenshots
- We’ve Moved to Facebook
Foursquare
- Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley: Still deciding on Facebook Places
- Foursquare CEO Fights Back! Promises Redesign, Says “We’re Still A Platform For Location”
- Why I Deleted Foursquare For Good
- Facebook Places Will Crush Foursquare
- Top 10 Reasons People Check-In to Foursquare
- Foursquare’s Future Slowly Takes Shape
- Are Check-In Apps Beneficial to the Real Estate Industry?
- Foursquare Has Been Trying (And Failing) To Trademark “Check-In”
- Why Facebook And Booyah Could Burst Foursquare’s Location Bubble
- Ideal restaurant social media flow
- Facebook Places: What’s Foursquare’s Next Move? [INTERVIEW]
- Foursquare, The Social Cowboy
- A big marketing problem how the world view location-based apps and why it’s good for Foursquare
- Foursquare’s Crowley: The Giants Are “Generic,” We Are Fun. I Wonder Who He’s Referring To…
TriOut v2 Dev Journal: Background Check In
Location General and other apps
- Groupon Teaches You Why Coupons Are Better Than Checkins For Deals
- WeReward Announces Location Based Check-In Land Grab
- deCarta gets $6.2M for location-based platform
- Do teens check in and does it matter?
- Shopkick, Launching Today, Is Foursquare For Shopping — With Actual Rewards
- To 100 million and beyond with Google Maps for mobile
- Mobile Users Prefer Coupons to Checkins [REPORT]
- GeoPosty: A WordPress plugin that lets your site serve location-aware content.
- MyTown Sees 350K Product Check-ins A Week; Pantene and H&M Join In On The Fun
- Opensource and Javascript: Polymaps Used To Make PrettyMaps
- Best Buy Launches ShopKick Program
- Barcode Hero Attacks In-Store Shopping With An Addictive Social Game
- Tweetworthy: Geosocial Universe, Real Life ‘Like’, GoldFish Music Box, and More
- Forget Check-Ins, AisleBuyer Is An LBS App That’s All About The Check-Out
- 58 GEO/Location-based panels submitted for SXSW 2011 on check-ins, foursquare, augmented reality and more to vote for.
- 7 Location Based Apps for Finding Local Businesses – Guest Post by James Adams
- Geosocial Universe: Design Round One at JESS3
- Edge Theory Conversation 10: On Location Services’ Use, Social Impact… and Defining Cheating.
Did you read any interesting location-based articles this week that I may have missed? If so let me know in the comments.
