Category Archives: facebook

Bing maps powers facebook Stories

Posted on July 21, 2010 by glenn

Facebook launched a new app, dubbed Facebook Stories, to highlight shared stories about people who have reconnected with friends and family via Facebook. As a part of the application, Bing Maps powers the location data for published stories. According to … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, Microsoft, Social Media |

A sample ESRI facebook connect activity feed (Beta)

Posted on April 27, 2010 by gisuser

I’m testing the cool, facebook activity feed application plug-in. This app shows off what people are saying about things of interest, in this case ESRI. The very cool thing is that its tied to yoru facebook account so it should … Continue reading →

Posted in ESRI, facebook |

Microsoft Fuse Labs rolls out Docs.com for facebook

Posted on April 21, 2010 by gisuser

An interesting web service rolled out today enables facebook users to share and connect with other in a manner similar to the familiar Google Docs SaaS service – see http://docs.com. At first glance you’ll need to add the service and … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook | Tagged |

ESRI Mapping via facebook and the Make A Map video? You betcha!

Posted on December 9, 2009 by glenn

Another cool, Geo social media story to share as we’ve recently stumbled onto the cool, free, map service from ESRI being made available to users of facebook. Enter the ESRI Facebook Demographic Map Application where you can easily select from … Continue reading →

Posted in ESRI, facebook, Social Media, video |

Need a Short url? Try xm.my short URLs for maps

Posted on October 5, 2009 by glenn

Here’s an interesting way to use those popular short urls for sharing via your social media outlets. Using xm.my users can create a very simple Google map with a POI and then share the map and the short url to … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, social networking, twitter | Tagged |

Adding geo location to your facebook via fire eagle friends on fire app

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Glenn

I stumbled onto an update from Yahoo! Fire eagle this morning that enables facebook users to integrate more geo location functionality into their account courtesy of the friends on fire applet http://apps.facebook.com/on-fire/ . To use the app you simply add … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, social network, social networking |

Have you created a facebook badge?

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Glenn

Have you used the facebook add a badge utility to create a badge to promote your facebook page?

Posted in facebook, gis |

Spatial Networking WhereYouGonnaBe to include Twitter, Facebook, and Google Calendar integration

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Glenn

Looks like Peter and the gang at SpatialNetworking have a new release in the works to include facebook and Twitter integration… In addition to updating the popular Twitter and facebook service, it can also tie in to your Google calendar … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, social network, twitter |

The intelligent social network for enterprises

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Glenn

This from Trampoline Systems… SONAR Dashboard, the world’s first intelligent social network for enterprises. How it works… SONAR Dashboard is an intelligent social network designed to increase cohesion, collaboration and innovation in large organisations. Interactive network visualisations and expertise search … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook |

Spatial Networking releases Whereyougonnabe

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Glenn

Just released… After several months of work, Petter Batty has announced the release of the Whereyougonnabe application for facebook users. In a nutshell… The key idea of the system is that you and your friends tell us where and when … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, google earth |

ESRI User Conference 2008 facebook Group

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Glenn

I’ve been doing a bit of pre-planning for the coming ESRI UC in 08… as part of it I decided to add an ESRI User Conference group on facebook where attendees can plan, share ideas, discuss the event, share tips, … Continue reading →

Posted in ESRI, esri uc, facebook |

WhereBoutz… a cool concept, too bad the mobile client doesn’t exist

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Glenn

Just went to load up the whereboutz application (nice name although I want to keep typing and saying WhereAboutz…) – I heard about it on facebook as a contact (James Fee) had loaded it. On the surface it looks quite … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, google maps, social network |