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Friday, January 14, 2011

Google Places for iPhone

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad)" @ 10:00 AM

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/arti...better_finding/

"Google announced Thursday the release of Google Places for iPhone, a combination of Google's Hotspot and Google Maps that you can use to find restaurants (etc.) near you. This standalone app is effectively an effort to out-Yelp Yelp by offering search results that are ranked and affected by your own ratings and the ratings of your friends."

I use Yelp for most of my recommendations or searches, although for the last couple months I really haven't been out enough to bother. I like that it's integrated with Google Maps but I would expect no less, and it's free and available now in iTunes. I plan on using Yelp again but I think I will also give this a go, how about you? What do you use to get your recommendations for restaurants, bars, etc?


Friday, August 20, 2010

Facebook's New Location Feature

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad)" @ 07:00 AM

http://www.insanely-great.com/news....nely+Great+Mac)

"Fans of Gowalla and Foursquare may be interested to know Facebook has directly integrated a new location feature. The feature is now available with 3.2 of the app, which hit iTunes overnight."

This is a US only supported feature on the iPhone, but they also have it ready as an HTML5 web site. I personally didn't get into FourSquare too much, and I tried Loopt, but found I preferred to update via Facebook and Twitter. I think I may get more use out of this feature since most, if not all of my friends, are on Facebook, but very few use the other location based services. How about you? Is this something you are going to use on a regular basis?


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