You likely heard that this week Facebook finally rolled out the Timeline feature for Corporate Brand Pages – essentially the “Page” equivalent of the familiar Timeline view that you’ve likely become familiar with. I promptly converted our own GISuser Page (facebook.com/GISusers) to Timeline and started snooping around. Overall I’m not really a huge fan of […]
Facebook Timeline Feature Comes to Pages – A Preview of our GISuser Page
Unless you happen to be the owner or administrator of a facebook Page – for a company or brand, then you likely wouldn’t even know that today facebook has finally rolled out the timeline feature for pages. For all purpose this simply means that the brand pages that you visit, like our own GISuser page, […]
MapMyFitness Adds More facebook Timeline Integration
There’s no doubt that many Geo geeks like technology, particularly cool, social mobile, location aware apps that take advantage of Geospatial technologies. MapMyFitness (http://www.mapmyfitness.com) is an awesome company that has some great apps (MapMyFitness.com, MapMyRide.com, MapMyRun.com, MapMyTri.com, MapMyWalk.com, MapMyHike.com, and MapMyMountain.com) and just today have announced even more functionality, this via some enhanced facebook timeline […]
facebook video chat – my first call and a first look
Yep, facebook has rolled out video chat using Skype technology, just what most of us guessed was coming. Here’s a quick look at the UI as seen by creating a chat session from https://www.facebook.com/videocalling. Perhaps no rocket science here, particularly since Google beat facebook to the punch with the launch of last week’s Google + […]
ESRI Mapping via facebook and the Make A Map video? You betcha!
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 a variety of pre-defined variables and get a map back in return. The app is […]
