Category Archives: facebook

facebook Home (Android) now in Google Play Store

Posted on April 12, 2013 by glenn

Good 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 →

Posted in android, facebook, mobile |

Super Bowl Fun – NFL Fan Map (FandomMap) created from Facebook data

Posted on January 29, 2013 by glenn

Super 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 →

Posted in cartography, dataviz, facebook, maps, sports, super bowl |

How Many of Your facebook Friends Are Located? MapSocial Knows

Posted on January 18, 2013 by glenn

The 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 →

Posted in facebook, howto |

Social Media Tip – Using facebook events

Posted on September 29, 2012 by glenn

A 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 →

Posted in events, facebook, Social Media |

17 Year Old Pays $10 To Attend Big Brand Mobile Developer Hackathon, Wins, Gets Offer from facebook

Posted on June 19, 2012 by glenn

I’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 →

Posted in developer, events, facebook, mobile, video |

MapSocial (Beta) Real Time Mapping In Facebook

Posted on May 9, 2012 by glenn

This 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 →

Posted in facebook, foursquare, Social Media |

Facebook Timeline for Brands and Pages – A closer Look and Implications

Posted on March 2, 2012 by glenn

You 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 →

Posted in facebook, Social Media |

Facebook Timeline Feature Comes to Pages – A Preview of our GISuser Page

Posted on February 29, 2012 by glenn

Unless 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 →

Posted in facebook, Social Media |

MapMyFitness Adds More facebook Timeline Integration

Posted on January 19, 2012 by glenn

There’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 →

Posted in facebook, Social Media, sports |

facebook video chat – my first call and a first look

Posted on July 6, 2011 by gisuser

Yep, 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 →

Posted in facebook, smartphone |

facebook fun – Mark Zuckerberg Comic Book Coming Soon!

Posted on February 22, 2011 by gisuser

A little bit of end of the day fun for you facebook fanatics!  In the Oscar-nominated movie “The Social Network”, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as a detached, cold and calculating internet visionary. This week, a more … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, Social Media |

A QuickLook at Facebook Places

Posted on August 19, 2010 by glenn

So, by now I’m sure most of you facebook users have heard that FB is now integrating more location sharing, this via the “Places” service. Driven by a partnership with Microsoft – think Bing Maps – the service enables facebook … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, LBS |