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Facebook Places–Share your Location with Friends

On August 18, 2010, in Social Media, by TechAdmin
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Facebook has just announced Facebook Places. The new service from Facebook that lets you share your location with friends. Your friends will be able to tag you but you can always opt-out of having friends tag you on check-in. Facebook Places is “not about broadcasting your location with the world, its about sharing where you are with friends”. This sounds great, eh?

Facebook Places comes with an API that developers and partners can use. Gowalla and Foursquare have partnered with Facebook Places and more developers & partners are expected to join in. More details coming as the event is live at the moment.

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Sency – Real Time Search and Real Time Location Combined

On May 21, 2010, in Social Media, by TechAdmin
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Over the past 3 months, the darling of the media has been Foursquare, Gowalla and other location based applications which allow you to check-in to a location to tell your friends where you are. Twitter also introduced Tweet your location feature that comes with Google Maps integration allowing you to tweet your current location. These technologies can be useful for a variety of reasons and businesses have started to analyze how they can utilize these technologies to communicate and track their customers.  However, there is another angle to real time location that hasn’t got the attention that it deserves.

Real time search was a major topic last year as a way for users to search what’s going on. These searches can provide a look into the public consciousness for users to see what people are saying about any given topic. When these search tools our combined with real time location, they can have added potential and significance.

Sency

Real time search engine Sency launched in September 2009 with a mission to bring the real time web to internet users in a simple way.  The site allows you to search the real time web to discover what people are saying as well as which links are being shared. Recently, Sency moved its technology to several major cities to allow the user to see what people are talking about in a given city. The initiative allows you to see what’s being said right now in London, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta as well as 10 other major US cities. The goal is to perfect the user experience on these cities and then move it to other major cities across the world. In addition to showing you what’s being said in these major cities – Sency is able to show you were people are at right now in a given city which can clue you into hot places or events going on right now.

Today, is a new day on the web.  Yesterday’s web was about archiving and ranking the best websites which offered useful information. But with the advent of social networking, the web is alive, and real time search engines and location based services will be merged to offer an entire new type of user experience.

Written by Evan Britton, founder of Sency.

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Tweet Your Location – Twitter’s Location Mapping Service

On March 10, 2010, in Social Media, by TechAdmin
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Twitter's Location Mapping ServiceTwitter has just added Tweet your location feature to Twitter.com. This feature will attach a small icon with the tweets clicking on which it will open the small view based on Google Maps showing the location from where that tweet was sent. With this move, Twitter is now competing directly with FourSquare and Gowalla who have been providing location sharing services for quite a while now. This feature is also important because the rival Facebook is all set to launch location sharing features to the website.

Twitter has started rolling out this feature and will soon be available for all users. So, now you can easily share your location with your friends as its attached with every tweet automatically. More updates on that soon.

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