Category Archives: facebook
First Look, Instagram Video – Fast, Simple, Beautiful
TweetToday, Instagram adds the ability for users to create and share a 15 second (max) length clip, even cooler, the user can create a 15 second long video clip collage (think stitch together several videos). Big deal you might think! … Continue reading
New release of Waze 3.7 gets friendly and tight with facebook!
TweetJust in time for all that summer travel, Waze has rolled out an update via the release of waze 3.7 (for iOS and Android). The friendly travel and navigation app has gotten even more friendly with additional enhancements to connect … Continue reading
facebook Home (Android) now in Google Play Store
TweetGood news for all of you facebook fanatics that happen to be sporting Android devices running OS 4+ as the much hyped facebook home app is now available for you. The app hit Play today, April 12 although I suspect … Continue reading
Super Bowl Fun – NFL Fan Map (FandomMap) created from Facebook data
TweetSuper Bowl week is here so that means more cool data visualizations.. best BBQ, tail gate hot spots, and those awesome NFL fan maps! Here’s details of a cool fan map – I’m not sure I can agree that its … Continue reading
How Many of Your facebook Friends Are Located? MapSocial Knows
TweetThe gang at CloverPoint in Victoria BC, Canada is doing some really cool stuff with facebook via their resource known as MapSocial. The latest addition to the service is a fun infographic building tool that lets users create a Social … Continue reading
Social Media Tip – Using facebook events
TweetA nice idea here courtesy of Ole Seidel and the crew at Alta4 as I recently received a Facebook event invite from them (yes I follow their official page and Like them). I’m a user of facebook page Events functionality, … Continue reading
17 Year Old Pays $10 To Attend Big Brand Mobile Developer Hackathon, Wins, Gets Offer from facebook
TweetI’ve always been a big fan of hackathons, un-events and other cool networking events… in these tough and competitive economic times the opportunities such events can provide you with can be priceless! Case in point, at the recently held Social … Continue reading
MapSocial (Beta) Real Time Mapping In Facebook
TweetThis week I’ve been messing around a bit with MapSocial, a new, real time mapping service for facebook (I’m also pleased to boast that I think I may have been one of the first public users of this cool service!) … Continue reading
Facebook Timeline for Brands and Pages – A closer Look and Implications
TweetYou likely heard that this week Facebook finally rolled out the Timeline feature for Corporate Brand Pages – essentially the “Page” equivalent of the familiar Timeline view that you’ve likely become familiar with. I promptly converted our own GISuser Page … Continue reading
Facebook Timeline Feature Comes to Pages – A Preview of our GISuser Page
TweetUnless you happen to be the owner or administrator of a facebook Page – for a company or brand, then you likely wouldn’t even know that today facebook has finally rolled out the timeline feature for pages. For all purpose … Continue reading
MapMyFitness Adds More facebook Timeline Integration
TweetThere’s no doubt that many Geo geeks like technology, particularly cool, social mobile, location aware apps that take advantage of Geospatial technologies. MapMyFitness (http://www.mapmyfitness.com) is an awesome company that has some great apps (MapMyFitness.com, MapMyRide.com, MapMyRun.com, MapMyTri.com, MapMyWalk.com, MapMyHike.com, and … Continue reading
facebook video chat – my first call and a first look
TweetYep, facebook has rolled out video chat using Skype technology, just what most of us guessed was coming. Here’s a quick look at the UI as seen by creating a chat session from https://www.facebook.com/videocalling. Perhaps no rocket science here, particularly … Continue reading
