Search for Properties Near Your Friends

A new website allows you to search for real-estate properties in the areas where your friends are most socially active.

UK classified search engine Adzuna's interesting new approach to real-estate search mapping, Friend Map, allows users to connect a real-estate listings Google Map with their Facebook account.

The map shows the location of properties for sale and rent and also allows users to see where their friends live and check-in. The map shows the check-in data for the past year of a user's Facebook friends and also provides links to search for properties in different locations.

Using the map you can determine the areas where you friends live and play and, if you want, search for properties in those areas.

Via: The Next Web

Nearby Facebook Events on Google Maps

Eventivore uses Google Maps to let you search and find nearby events and can also help you find if any of your Facebook friends are attending the event.

To find nearby events to your location you just need to enter your zip code. If you wish to find events for a specific date (for example New Year's Eve) you can also add a date range to filter the results.

If you mouse-over an event's map marker you can view details of the event in a small information window. If you click on an events map marker you will be taken to the event's Facebook page where you can view further details and discover which of your Facebook friends (if any) are attending.

Finding and Sharing Events on Google Maps

Juntos! is a neat events finder and organiser application for Facebook.

Using the application it is possible to find all sorts of events that are happening around your location. Alternatively if you planning a vacation or visiting another town or city you can use Juntos! to search for events at your destination and refine the results shown by date.

Juntos! can also be used to share and promote your own events. If you share an event with Juntos! the event will appear on your Facebook events page and on the Juntos! application.

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A Check-in Button for Your Facebook Page

Localley is a tool that broadens the functionality of Facebook Places by letting you check-in to places using a date and time in the future. It also allows you to view your check-in history on a Google Map, visualise your friends' latest check-ins and view the people who are checked in around you.



Localley has now released checkintab for Facebook pages. If your business or venue has a Facebook account you can use checkintab to allow users to check-in directly from your Facebook page.



Once you add checkintab to your Facebook account a 'check-in now!' button is added to the right hand menu of your page. When visitors click on the button they can check-in to your business and venue without having to leave your Facebook page.



Your visitors can even create a future check-in and inform their friends that they will be at your venue at a specific time. This is a great way to get users to share and promote your business with their Facebook friends.



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Drive a Mini on Google Maps

Mini Maps on Facebook

Mini Maps is a great driving game for Facebook that lets you race anywhere in the world on Google Maps.

You can race on tracks created by other players, competing against the best track times or even race against others by inviting your Facebook friends to play. Alternatively you can create your own tracks, set the best time and challenge others to try and beat you.

The game has some great features. Visibility is affected by the local time, so, for example, if you log into San Francisco at night, you are going to be driving with the assistance of your headlamps.

Unlike most Google Maps based driving games this one actually features collision detection. There's no off road driving here - you will have to stick to those roads. The game also lets you select from a number of Mini models and even lets you customise the look of your car.

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Google Maps of Your Facebook Friends

MapMyFriends

MapMyFriends lets you view all your Facebook friends on a Google Map.

To create a map of your Facebook friends all you need to do is sign in to the map with your Facebook account and your friend map is created automatically. The map uses the Facebook profile pictures of your friends to indicate their location.

If you click on any of the mapped profile pictures you can click through to visit that friend's Facebook profile.

SocialMine

This Facebook application also maps all of your Facebook friends and, in addition, extracts other interesting facts from your friends' profiles.

On installing this application to Facebook you are presented with a Google Map displaying your friends' locations indicated by their profile picture. Under the map there is a series of tables informing you about how many of your friends are male or female, how many are single or in a relationship and how many of your friends are conservative and how many are liberal etc.

The application gives you a good overview of the geography of your Facebook network, as well as an insight into its political, religious and relationship leanings.

Where My Friends Be

Where My Friends Be is a nice Google Maps app to visualise the locations of all your Facebook friends. To create a map you just need to connect your Facebook account and in a matter of seconds you are presented with a Google Map showing the geographical distribution of your social network.

Friends Density on Facebook

Friends Density is another nice way to visualise the geographical distribution of your Facebook friends, this time in the form of a heatmap.

Once you sign up to the app in Facebook you can view your friends on a Google Map. You can even read your friends' latest status updates directly from the map.

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A Facebook Check-in Button Generator

CheckinPlugin

CheckinPlugin helps businesses and venues create a Facebook check-in button for their websites. The obvious advantages for businesses of having a check-in button is that it will encourage customers to check-in using Facebook and help promote their venue or company.

Creating a CheckinPlugin is very easy. First you just need to enter your location on a Google Map. CheckinPlugin then displays all the venues with a Facebook place id at that address. You then select your business from the list and create your unique CheckinPlugin.

CheckinPlugin then generates the code for your plug-in and all you need to do then is insert it into your company's website.

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Better Facebook Places with Google Maps

Localley

Localley is a tool that broadens the functionality of Facebook Places by letting you check-in to places using a date and time in the future. It also allows you to view your check-in history on a Google Map, visualise your friends' latest check-ins and view the people who are checked in around you.

Localley's future check-in service lets you share your plans with your Facebook friends and even invite them to join you. For example, you can tell your friends where you will be tonight and when.

Localley really does seem to add some great extra functionality to Facebook Places. The site is currently in Beta. Hopefully some detailed instructions of use will be added to the site before a full launch. At the moment it is quite hard to work out some of the site's functionality.

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View Your Facebook Friends on Google Maps

Where My Friends Be

Where My Friends Be is a nice Google Maps app to visualise the locations of all your Facebook friends. To create a map you just need to connect your Facebook account and in a matter of seconds you are presented with a Google Map showing the geographical distribution of your social network.

Friends Density on Facebook

Friends Density is another nice way to visualise the geographical distribution of your Facebook friends, this time in the form of a heatmap.

Once you sign up to the app in Facebook you can view your friends on a Google Map. You can even read your friends' latest status updates directly from the map.

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Facebook Events on Google Maps

Wherevent.com

Wherevent lets you visualise Facebook events on a Google Map. Connect to Wherevent with your Facebook account and you can browse your upcoming events and discover who is attending directly from a handy Google Map

Using the map it is possible to see what events are going on in your area and who will be going. It is possible to search the application by date and location. It is also possible to see how many people are attending the event and how many of them are male and how many are female.

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View Facebook Checkins with Google Maps

CheckinSpy

CheckinSpy lets you view your friends Facebook check-ins on Google Maps.

The application allows Facebook users to view their own check-ins and those made by their Facebook friends directly on a Google Map. You can select to view your own check-ins from the menu bar at the top of the map. Alternatively you can view all your friends or select an individual friend's check-ins.

All recent check-ins are displayed on the map with orange map markers. If you click on the marker you can view the date of the check-in and view the location with Street View.

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Action Sports Sharing with Google Maps

Naturized Spots

Naturized Spots is a Google Maps based website for sharing action-driven nature-aware spots in the Alps and beyond.

The map displays a number of action-sports locations in the Alps. The markers are categorised into a number of activities, including climbing, caving, biking and skating.

It is possible to personalise Naturized Spots by signing in with a Facebook account. Once you are signed in you can add your own spots anywhere in the world. You can also share your saved spots with your Facebook friends and view spots saved by your friends.

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Visualise GPS Tracks with Google Maps

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs is a great application that allows you to view your GPS tracks using Google Maps and the Google Earth browser plug-in.

Using Breadcrumbs you can create map based visualisations of your GPS tracks and include geotagged photographs and videos. The application includes automatic geotagging of your photos and videos and an easy to use editing tool that enables you to correct GPS points. It is also possible to add information and markers to illustrate interesting points on your tracks.

Completed tracks can be shared via a Breadcrumbs public page for each track and through direct integration with Facebook.

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Find Your Neighbours with Google Maps

OneTwib

OneTwib is a location-based social network that allows users to connect with other people in their neighbourhood. The site uses Google Maps to show the registered users of OneTwib in your vicinity.

You can connect with OneTwib with a Facebook account. The map view includes a vicinity tool that allows you to define your area of search. Other users are shown on the map with people shaped markers. Events around you are indicated by an 'E'.

As well as advertising events users can promote groups and display classified adverts.

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Facebook Events with Google Maps

Facebook Event Mapping
This Facebook application allows you to create a Google Map for a Facebook event.

Using the app you can create a map tab for an existing Facebook event or you can use the app to create a Facebook event with a map attached.

The application's third option is to create just a map for a location without an event attached.

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Facebook Events on Google Maps

FabMap

FabMap is a Czech language Google Map that helps users find interesting events. You can log into the map with your Facebook account and view your events and your friends' events geo-tagged on the map.

It is possible to filter the results on the map to show just today and tomorrow's events, events this week or events this month. If you select one of the filter options the events are shown on the map and also listed in the map sidebar.

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First Google Map with Facebook Places

Nearby Friends

Nearby Friends is a Google Maps based Facebook application that utilises the new Facebook Places check-in facility. The application allows you to view all your friends check-ins on one Google Map.

Nearby Places doesn't just show your friends' latest check-ins it also allows you to visualise their entire check-in history. If you click on any of your friends' thumbnail pictures displayed on the Google Map you can choose an option to view their 'Check-in History'.

When you select to view the check-in history of a friend you are presented with a Google Map showing all their check-ins. Each check-in is represented by a profile picture. The larger the picture the more recent the check-in. Each individual check-in is also connected to the next check-in with a polyline. Therefore you can click on the largest profile picture and track your friend's check-ins backwards all the way to the womb (well maybe not that far).

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Real-Time Conversations on Google Maps

Qilroy

Qilroy (pronounced as in 'Kilroy was here') allows you to start and join social networking conversations anywhere in the world.

To start using Qilroy simply type in a location (or let Qilroy discover it for you). You will then be presented with a stream of Twitter and Facebook messages from your location. You can join in any of the conversations by signing in with your Twitter account, your facebook account or a Qilroy account.

As well as the real-time stream of the latest messages you can view nearby messages on a Google Map. Using the map you can zoom into a location and view the latest messages posted from people at that location.

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The Hottest Events in Town on Google Maps

Hotlist

The Hotlist is a website that can show you the trending locations in your vicinity.

Hotlist uses Google Maps to show you upcoming events in your area and in your social network. The application shows you the venues that are generating the most buzz on social networks and can show you which events your friends are attending.

It is possible to connect to Hotlist with a Facebook account to see what your Facebook friends are up to. As of today Hotlist is also using the new Facebook Places API. This should ensure that you can now more easily find out what hot events your friends will be attending.

Via: Read Write Web

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Facebook Places

Facebook Places was launched tonight.

Interestingly the screenshots used in the launch and on the Facebook Blog all seem to use Google Maps. However the Bing Community blog says that it is using Bing Maps and seems to have the screenshots to prove it. My guess is that Facebook Places is using Google Maps for its iPhone app and Bing Maps on the Facebook website.

Unfortunately, for the rest of the world, Facebook Places at the moment is only available in the United States.

Facebook Places will allow you to check-in to locations, find friends who are nearby, track location history and find places and venues nearby. If a friend checks in nearby to your current location you will get a notification. Facebook Places will also allow you to tag photos and friends. Tagging friends essentially means that you can check-in your friends when they are at a location with you.

Facebook Places also looks like it will have place or venue pages. Each place will have its own page on Facebook. These place pages will show you who else is checked in right now at this location.

Facebook are launching an API for Places. The Read API is launching tomorrow. The Read API will let you access your check-ins and your friends' check-ins. There will also be a Write and Search API. This is currently in closed Beta.

Places comes with a number of privacy controls. By default your check-ins can only be viewed by your friends on Facebook. However it is possible to change your privacy settings to allow anyone to view your location data. Users will also be notified when they are tagged by a friend. You can then remove the tag if you want. You can also change your settings so that your friends can't tag your location.

Facebook today also announced a number of partners who will be utilising Places. These include Gowalla, foursquare, Yelp and Booyah.

If you have an iPhone you can use Facebook Places with the most recent version of the Facebook application for iPhone. You also can access Places from touch.facebook.com if your mobile browser supports HTML 5 and geolocation.

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