applications

Facebook Places has been out and about for the past few weeks now. Many of us have used it (or at least tried out out and turned it off), and there are definitely some good things, some bad things, and some downright ugly things about it.

This post was supposed to be a lot of things. It was supposed to be the last post in my mobile series - how business & organizations can use geolocation apps. Then, it was supposed to be a rant about Foursquare's new GPS integration and how much I hate it.

In less than 18 months, over three billion applications have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store. Thousands, if not millions, of these have been geolocation apps - applications that use an iPhone or other smartphone's GPS. By locating you and your phone, geolocation apps give you the opportunity to "check-in", or opt in and share your location with your social networks.

You've got to wonder who, if anyone, is approving applications for distribution on Facebook. A far cry from Apple's "deny first, ask later" policy, Facebook seems to have allowed yet another spam application through.