Facebook Checkins with Googla Maps

Places from Facebook uses Google Maps to show all the Facebook Places around your current location.

Each Facebook Place listed with the map includes a number of options. The 'map' option centres the map on the selected venue so you can find out exactly where it is. The 'mobile' option presents the user with a QR code link for the venue so you can access it from a smartphone.

Each venue also includes options to post a review or just check-in using your Facebook account. If you choose to check-in you can post a message to Facebook and select to include a map image and a time stamp of how long you will be at the venue.

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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Where I've Been on Google Maps

Trip Advisor - Cities I've Visited

This Facebook application from TripAdvisor lets you create a Google Map of locations around the world that you have visited and then share your map with your Facebook friends.

You can change the map markers on the map to show that a location is a favourite location, a location you can advise friends about or even just a place you are planning to visit. You can also create a Favourite Destination list from the places that you have visited.

Trip Advisor's application also lets you create a Travel Photo Guide by connecting your map with one of your photo albums saved on Facebook.

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Google Maps is all over Facebook

There are a number of Facebook applications that leverage the Google Maps API to add a geographical element to their Facebook offerings. Here is a quick look at some of these applications:

Make New Friends on Facebook

AskOkulu

AskOkulu is a social network built on Google Maps. Anyone can join the network via many of the existing social networks. Clicking on the following links will add the AskOkulu application to the named social network, Facebook, Hi5, Ning, Orkut, Bebo and MySpace.

Once you add the application to your social network site your profile photograph will be added to a Google Map. It is then possible to search the map for popular females, popular males, members in particular countries or members who speak a particular language.

Online Members On Map
Online Members on Map allows members of Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Bebo and Hi5 to meet and chat with other users on a Google Map. Users can select to view females or males on the map.

Save Locations

Favorite Places
Favorite Places lets users 'favorite' locations and share them with their friends. The application uses Google Street View to display panoramas of favorited places. You can also add information about your saved locations.

Play Games

King (or Queen) of the World
King (or Queen) of the World is a Facebook strategy game that uses Google Maps to demonstrate the current territories of game players.

The game is a territorial game of diplomacy, alliances and battles. To join the game a player chooses a location on a Google Map. Google Maps are also used to show the locations of game players and the defending and invading soldiers of player battles.

Google Maps Challenge

Google Maps Challenge is a Facebook game that involves trying to identify a succesion of satellite images from Google Maps of famous locations around the world. In the game you have 60 seconds to identify as many images as you can.


Where are Your Friends

Use a Map
Use a Map lets you share your location with your Facebook friends. You can drag a map pin on a Google Map to set your location and then share the map view with your friends.

Use a Map also lets you view the locations of all your Facebook friends on a Google Map.

Mapmotive for Facebook
Mapmotive for Facebook is an application that automatically displays your Facebook friends on a Google Map. The Mapmotive map not only shows the geography of your Facebook network but allows you to add markers.

You can use the application to show the location of an upcoming party or event, or use it to display the places you have visited or to share your favourite restaurants and bars.

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.


Friends Density

Friends Density lets you view a heat map of your Facebook friends. The application also includes a geography game based on your friends' locations.

Marketing Campaigns

Click It Forward

Click It Forward is the first Facebook application that I have seen that uses the Google Earth Browser plug-in. Acurian is a company that recruits individuals for medical trials. They say that you can help support medical research by signing up your friends on Facebook to their 'Click it Forward' Facebook application.

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Arrange an Event with Google Maps

Plancast

Plancast is a service for sharing your upcoming plans with friends. Using Plancast you can easily arrange an event, meeting or gathering at a specific location and then share the information with friends.

Plancast uses Google Maps to show the location of your plans. In fact the site has a great auto-suggest tool that loads a thumbnail Google Map of your location as you type the address.



You can create a plan or event on Plancast by signing in with your Twitter or Facebook account. Plancast even automatically imports your Facebook events. Once you have created an event you can then easily share the information by getting Plancast to automatically post the details to your Twitter and/or Facebook accounts.

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Share Your Location on Facebook

Mobcast
Mobcast is a free iPhone application that lets you share your location with your Facebook friends. The application can display your friends' location in near real-time on a Google Map and can also update your Facebook wall.

Using Mobcast you choose who can see your location using Facebook friend lists. It is also possible to choose how long your location is stored on the server after you stop running the application. You can even delete your location or run in 'stealth mode' at any time.

Get Mobcast for free on the iTunes Store

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View Your Facebook Friends on Google Maps

Mapmotive for Facebook

Mapmotive for Facebook is an application that automatically displays your Facebook friends on a Google Map. The Mapmotive map not only shows the geography of your Facebook network but allows you to add markers.

You can use the application to show the location of an upcoming party or event, or use it to display the places you have visited or to share your favourite restaurants and bars.

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.

Other Facebook Google Map Applications

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New Facebook Application

Click It Forward

Click It Forward is the first Facebook application that I have seen that uses the Google Earth Browser plug-in.

Acurian is a company that recruits individuals for medical trials. They say that you can help support medical research by signing up your friends on Facebook to their 'Click it Forward' Facebook application. For every four people you get to add Click it Forward Acurian claims they will contribute $1 to one of a number of medical causes.

The application uses the Google Earth browser to show you location and the location of everyone on Facebook who has added the application. The global user map uses numbered markers to show how much money each person has raised for their chosen cause. Each marker on the map is also connected by a line to all the members you have recruited.

The idea of creating lines between friends on the map is inspired. This could be great resource for checking the six degrees of separation theory.

AskOkulu

AskOkulu is a social network built on Google Maps. Anyone can join the network via many of the existing social networks. Clicking on the following links will add the AskOkulu application to the named social network, Facebook, Hi5, Ning, Orkut, Bebo and MySpace.

Once you add the application to your social network site your profile photograph will be added to a Google Map. It is then possible to search the map for popular females, popular males, members in particular countries or members who speak a particular language.

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3 New Google Maps Facebook Applications

Update (Feb. 17): Also check out the Go Skating Toronto Google Maps-based Facebook app created by the gang at FindByClick.com!

King (or Queen) of the World



King (or Queen) of the World is a Facebook strategy game that uses Google Maps to demonstrate the current territories of game players.

The game is a territorial game of diplomacy, alliances and battles. To join the game a player chooses a location on a Google Map. Google Maps are also used to show the locations of game players and the defending and invading soldiers of player battles.

This game currently boasts a user rating of 4.9 out of 5 on Facebook and the Facebook User Reviews of the game are unanimously enthusiastic. Here is just one review from one of the game’s fans,

“This is the best, most subtle, and best-supported game application on Facebook. That diplomacy, strategy, geography and the strongest modular aspects of Facebook's architecture have all been rolled into the mechanics and play of one game is astoundingly brilliant. Long live the KoTW!”.

Be warned however, if the game reviews are anything to go by, once you register for this game you can kiss your social life good bye. Instead you will find yourself hooked on building alliances and taking over the world.


Unype is described by its designers as “a multi-user mirror-world for sharing locations, photos, videos and models and for playing games inside Google Earth and Google Maps, with all social networks as entry points.” Which is a fairly good summary of the features of this fun map.



If you view the map at Unype you can enter your location on the map anonymously and add pictures or videos, you can use a chat feature to talk to other users and you can even play a geography game.

However the real fun comes when you access Unype through Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Hi5 or Bebo. If you interact with the map on any of these sites your social network profile is added to the map automatically. Now you can share videos and pictures with your friends on any of the aforementioned networks through Unype.

The chat and game options on Unype can be toggled on or off and appear directly under the map. The game is a simple test of your knowledge of the world, requiring you to find locations on the map. You can also add 3d models to the map which will appear when you use the Google Earth option.

And that isn’t all. Unype will also let you embed their map in your own website or blog. Which means that your readers can share their pictures and videos with each other through a Google Map. Soon there will be even more options as Unype say they are presently “working with various companies to build vertical applications for them on top of the Unype platform.”


hobnobLover



hobnobLover's Facebook Application displays the latest places mapped by members of hobnobLover. Once you register you can view your own places, your friend's mapped places or the places of any other member.

The Google Map in the Facebook application spools through the latest places added. Each place, as it is shown, is accompanied by a thumbnail picture of the place and some information. Clicking on the picture or the place name will take you to another page where you can find more information, reviews, and comments for that place.

If you like the Google Map in this Facebook application you can even add it to your own web page or blog with this Google Gadget.

See three other facebook apps that allow you to map your friends in this post from last year..

3 New Google Maps Facebook applications

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New Facebook apps using Google Maps:

• Our Places - A Facebook app that combines Google Maps, Bigtribe Geohana, and Facebook. [via]
• TinyURL-style Google Maps Facebook tool - Provides you with a free map that has a short URL, making it easier to send to friends.
• My Camps Facebook App - Facebook application for searching, rating, reviewing, mapping and sharing summer camps. [via]

See 3 more Google Maps Facebook apps in my May 10th post..
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