Sekai Camera Support Center foursquare Turn Your Facebook into a Mini Blog with Facebook.Me A group of developers and designers have created a way for users to export their Facebook data — updates, photos, the works — and turn it into a themed mini-blog. Talented Facebook designer Rob Goodlatte and a small crew of other Facebook designer/developers spent some time working with Facebook's new Open Graph API at an internal company hackathon and created a few simple, functional themes and import options for a ton of your Facebook content. They call it Facebook.me, and it's the answer to a lot of prayers for a more customized approach to Facebook data. Here's how it works: You connect the app to your Facebook account, then you allow the app to publish posts, comments, photos and other items. Goodlatte also demonstrated the app for us at f8, the Facebook developer conference — we've embedded the vid at the bottom of this post. What do you think?
aka-aki Foursquare Beats Twitter to Local Advertising Goldmine Foursquare is the mobile social game that you play by checking in at various locales while out and about. The location-based application has managed to strip the fat out of other location-aware mobile ideas, find just the right formula for encouraging check-ins, and hit at the right time. Now, they're sitting pretty with funding and a trajectory that resembles Twitter's rise to glory. Foursquare, however, isn't wasting any time on monetizing and has just beat Twitter to the business services market. Today marks the launch of their beta advertising platform — Foursquare for Businesses — designed to provide retailers with an opportunity to highlight specials to Foursquare users who check-in nearby and get data based on the location-based campaigns. Foursquare for Businesses is a natural extension of the product that we knew was coming. It's absolutely genius and here's why.
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