Tag: Social Check-ins

  • Location Privacy And All The Fuss Around It

    Social check-in services have a secret agenda. They’ve grown to keep their user’s engaged by awarding them “new badges”, they make money by signing up deals with the famous places. If every one wins, what’s all this fuss about “Location Privacy” that’s on the news last week? I would classify the end-users who are “affected”…

  • Facebook Places Now Works in India

    For those already not using a hack to get Facebook Places to work in India or other un-supporting countries, Facebook today silently rolled-out "Places" check-ins in India. This feature was actually available to me since like a week and more users are discovering this now which could mean a phased rollout by Facebook.