Posts tagged New Location
Rally brings social geo-location to your real friends
Dec 29th
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All over the social Web these days, there’s a race to get as many friends, followers, readers, or subscribers as possibleâ??most of them people you don’t know. As location-based social applications like Foursquare and Gowalla grow, they’re broadcasting your location to all those people, connecting you in one more way to a lot [...]
Seesmic jumps on Twitter’s new location feature with map previews
Nov 20th
Seesmic, the Twitter client that was the first to incorporate lists, has now jumped on the social network’s new location-tagged tweets. You can roll over tweets that have a special marker to show a map of where they are, without ever leaving the client.
Twitter finally rolled out its location application programming interface earlier today. It [...]
Twitter finally enables geotagged tweets with new location API
Nov 19th
Twitter finally rolled out its new application programming interface for tagging tweets with your location.
It won’t appear on Twitter.com, but it will be enabled for location-based services like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Twittelator Pro. Tweetie already switched on some geotagging functionality earlier this year, so you can see nearby tweets.
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New targeting on Pages gives Facebook leg up over Twitter for marketers
Nov 19th
Facebook unveiled what could become a pretty powerful marketing tool for large multinationals and brands last night. You can now target specific locations and languages when you send out updates on a Facebook page. A brand like McDonald’s could use the new feature to send out coupons to Japanese followers, for example.
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Twitter’s new digs (and old ones too)
Nov 12th
Twitter, which recently raised a whopping $100 million round of financing, is migrating across the SOMA (or South of Market) district to new headquarters this week. They’re picking up from the 539 Bryant St. office, which has been their home for a year, to a new location atop 795 Folsom St.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported: [...]
