Facebook introducing Deals
Facebook announces the establishment of a new feature called "Deals"
Starting today, local businesses will be able to offer deals when you book with them from Facebook. Offers will be made over the next few days but will be available in the United States to begin.
Facebook launches location-based service-shared “Places”
In a press conference organized by invitation in the head of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new geolocation service Facebook.
Dubbed "Places", it will enable users to share their social networking sites more easily and discover which of their "friends" are in the same region.
This service will focus on mobile devices from which the members can post and update their geolocation.
The social networking giant has played the cautious this time and included from the outset, control over the visibility of this information adjusted default to "friends only".Users can include friends with whom they are, and the information will be published following the same system used for tagging photos. Once a place "tagged", it becomes permanent on Facebook, although it may be deleted by the user who posted first.
If a trade or business, its owner can reclaim his property.
Zuckerberg did not specify how to control or planned administration in this case.
Facebook officials have explained that a comprehensive API for reading and writing research will be offered to developers.
This service can be integrated with third party applications.
The logo of the service, representing a "4" in a square (in English and Four Square), puts the rumors about the future of the Foursquare between acquisition, partnership or single glance.
Source : Facebook's blog
Google Street View Adds Local Business Listings
Last week, the newly renamed Google Places added a ton of features to help local businesses create a directory page right on Google. Today, Google’s Street View is joining the party by showing links to local business listings right in Street View.
As you turn around in Street View, names of local businesses and other “Google Places” will show up overlayed on top of buildings. As you hover over those names, a small pop-up window shows some of the listing details such as business name, phone number, and ratings.
There have been links from business listings on Google Maps directly to Street View for almost a year, but now those business listings appear right within Street View itself. Google clearly wants to own local and is sprinkling these listings everywhere it can.
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