May 19, 2013

Facebook Places - News


Facebook Places and Gap Check-In Deal to Give You Free Jeans

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Gap Retailer plans to give away 10,000 pairs of jeans to those who check in to any men’s and women’s Gap U.S. retail location using Facebook’s new Deals feature, which allows users to earn special discounts when checking in to different businesses via Facebook Places on their smartphones. Once you’ve checked in and shown an [...]

Foursquare Crossed Over 3 Million Users – 18,000 New Registrations per Day

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The location-based social network, Foursquare hit the three million user mark this weekend and is growing rapidly. The Foursquare social network has been adding users at impressive rates, and only hit 2 million users in early July. It took a year to reach one million; three months to hit 2 million, and a month and [...]

Facebook Places vs. Foursquare – Who will Survive ?

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Facebook’s unveiling of Facebook Places  is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Facebook Places allows users to share their location and discover new hot spots by following the stops of people in their network. Well, Facebook’s latest feature, Facebook Places, is an attempt to make your [...]