Places implications on social networking
Is there any private life left to enjoy? With facebook places it´s pretty difficult to keep your life “secret”.
Facebook places let´s you share with your friends the places you are at, and when you are somewhere that is interesting for you, you can share the experience and even the friends you are with.
Checking in to places let´s you find out which of your friends are around or you can share your location with friends and family.
Map search is a great tool to find places, define routes and plan your trip, know where a store or business is and you have some tools to do all this easier. Multimaps is one of them.
With Google maps you can explore the world at “street level”. Preview all the places you want to be for the next getaway.
While on the road, you can “see” where your favorite restaurant or shop is and how it looks like.
For business owners Google maps lets you show your site location, the environment, what amenities are available and relevant information about your business and landmarks you want to focus on.
Google maps navigation for android, made Google an important player in the GPS market and making it free was devastating for other GPS players, but a great advantage for Google.
From satellite view to street view, Google is hitting the market hard.
Google maps is working on android 2.0 devices but spreading to other mobile platforms.
For users, it´s great news. For competitors it´s a difficult bite to swallow.
Bing and Google are in the middle of a great battle to conquer user favor.
Bing locations and search are trying to take larger bites from Google´s leadership and Google is trying to find innovative ways to keep leadership.
The race for features is giving users the benefit of better services and innovative resources.
Bing´s gains are not huge, but the competition is not over yet.