Facebook Places is still virgin territory for most users, let alone developers and businesses. So how do you get the most out of a service that few people have really figured out how to use? Geo-social aggregator Hotlist thinks that… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitter started to surface over the weekend indicating that might be the case. And as you can see from this screengrab from @kierondonoghue on Saturday, it did work for a short time. However, we’ve checked with Twitter’s official spokespeople [...]

For the past two years, Fwix has been building a hyperlocal news site for cities and neighborhoods around the country in a very automated fashion. Its homepage for every city has been three columns filled with recent news and blog headlines, along with other local data like weather (see second screenshot below). Today, it is [...]

For the past two years, Fwix has been building a hyperlocal news site for cities and neighborhoods around the country in a very automated fashion. Its homepage for every city has been three columns filled with recent news and blog headlines, along with other local data like weather (see second screenshot below). Today, it is [...]

Taking an if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook Places’s read and write APIs. SCVNGR is just one of… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places. Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare? That’s the question we posed in this week’s Web Faceoff, our ongoing series comparing technology apps… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

While checking into a Facebook Places location recently, one Mashable reader noticed a new tab: Photo Memories. We’ve been unable to duplicate the same tab ourselves, which means Facebook may be testing this feature with a small number of… Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Location-based game SCVNGR has had a big week of news, first with its partnership with AT&T and then the release of its secret social mechanics playdeck. Today the company has announced that it now sports full integration with the recently launched Facebook Places — you can send your SCVNGR checkins to Facebook, and you can import [...]

Well, this is curious. From our checks, it seems like Google has completely omitted Yelp reviews from Google Places. As you may recall, Yelp has been frustrated by Google’s recent decision to pump up its Places service with Yelp’s content— without Yelp’s consent. During a recent interview with TechCrunch TV, Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said [...]

In response on to a question on Quora yesterday afternoon about why the Facebook Places logo looks like it contains a “four” in a “square,” Facebook Design Strategy lead Aaron Sittig confirms our belief that any similarities between the two logos were accidental. “We sure got a laugh from the news stories, but could only [...]