Facebook has reportedly cut off API use for Twitter’s newest social app Vine. The move comes less than 24 hours after Vine was released for wide scale use.
Twitter acquired Vine in October and launched the video-sharing service on its platform as a way to expand its multimedia offerings.
As part of the Vine application users are prompted to find their Facebook Friends, an option that now reveals a Facebook error.
While many networks including Foursquare rely on Facebook’s API for data collection, the Facebook API terms of services states that developers “may not use Facebook Platform to export user data into a competing social network without our permission.”
The wording of the social networks API allows Facebook to cut off any company it believes to be a direct competitor.
Location based services app Foursquare has published a map of the world which showcases exactly what 500 million check-ins look like. The map focuses on check-ins implemented over the last three months.
The move to showcase its importance comes less than a month after financial research firm PrivCo claimed that Foursquare was having a hard time raising venture funding. PrivCo believes Foursquare will be purchased in 2013 for less than its total funding.
Foursquare is estimated to be collecting upwards of 5 million check-ins per day with many of its users located in tech savvy cities including New York City and San Francisco.
The location based service says its more than just about maps, Foursquare aims to provide amazing personalized recommendations” that businesses can use and users love. read more
Flickr on Wednesday announced a set of its own photo filters, the platform was created by the Aviary, the same company that provided an SDK package for Twitter’s recently announced photo filters.
On its blog Aviary writers:
Now, all Flickr users, on web and mobile, can make their photos look amazing with Aviarys tools, filters and effects.”
Aviary’s software development kit (SDK) works across various mobile operating system. The system isfunded by Spark Capital, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman and Walgreens. read more
After ditching full photo displays (Vcards) from Twitter on Monday the team at Instagram wasted no time in debuting new features of its very own. The world’s largest social photo sharing platform announced updates for both its iOS and Android apps.
Instagram’s new features include integration with Foursquare, improvements to its camera integration standards and a new black-and-white filter.
All location pages for Instagram now feature a Foursquare button which launches the Foursquare app if installed or a website location if the Foursquare app is not featured on the users smartphone. In both cases Foursquare provides information about the venue where the photo was taken.
Also included via the update is a new grid guide that is used when taking or editing photos. Users can also now preview their most recent photos.
Photos also now save in the app and in a separate album on the users iOS or Android smartphone. The new album is simply titledInstagram. read more
Location-based social app Banjo launched the next version of its location-based mobile app on Thursday. The program now features a Facebook inspired news feed, access to second-degree social connections and a list of currently active connections based on location.
At the time of this post Banjo has 3 million users, not bad for a company that only launched in the summer of 2011 with critical praise during 2012′s South by Southwest.
Banjo collects information from various social networks includingTwitter, Facebook, Instagram and Foursquare and then sorts that platform information by location. By using that information users can opt in to a specific location.
Using the location service users can also receive push alerts when a friend from any of their social networks are near their location. read more
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley is bringing monetization to his company’s location based service with the help of monetized ad spots that are targeted to certain user groups, such as repeat customers.
Crowley was speaking at thePando Daily event in New York on Thursday night where he announced the discounts program. Users will find discount ads under the Explore tab. According to Crowley the Foursquare ads will betargeted just at local, and exclusively on mobile.
At this time the trial period will include around 25 customers includingBest Buy and Old Navy. If users respond favorably to the sponsored ads more will roll out in the future.
Foursquare waited to release the program because the company will still figuring out how to more effectively understand their collected user data. According to Crowley:
We just now have the tools to build the recommendation engine, to build the dashboard.” read more
Leading location based service provider Foursquare has partnered with dinner reservation provider Open Tablet to bring restaurant table booking directly to the Foursquare platform for mobile devices.
The new feature is available for iPhone and Android users.
While Foursquare started as a simple “check-in” program it quickly began to amass business appeal and eventually partnered with American Express.
Since launching the programs “explore” tab the company has been looking for new ways to add value to the platform.
Using the new system Foursquare users can find restaurants near their location as they always could and now they can check-in to those locations after reading reviews, all without leaving the Foursquare mobile app. read more
Facebook pages are now integrated into Klout scoring. In announcing the new feature Klout feature the company predicts that users with a Klout score between 70-80 has an average of 13,000 users talking about their Facebook page.
By connecting your brand or organization’s Facebook Fan page your Klout conversation increases and hence your score goes up.
The announcement comes just one month after the social media metrics website pushed out a new look and updated Klout scores.
Joe Fernandez, founder and CEO of Klout tellsMashable:
We went from about 100 variables that we were looking at to over 400.Were looking at a bunch of new stuff.
Every blogger launches their site with the intention of success, but not every blogger takes advantage of the many resources available to them and this draws a distinct line between success and failure for blogs new and old. When competing with millions of other offerings, nothing less than your absolute best effort will do. Thankfully for every blogger, the support network in place to offer encouragement and tools is massive and this is evidenced by the many high quality events and meetups revolving around the subject of successful blogging to be found all around the world at any given time. read more
Location based service Foursquare continues to attract millions of new users and none more so than in the Big East Conference. According to a recent report It’s not USC, Alabama or even Oregon leading social check-ins but rather Pittsburgh, a school not even ranked in the AP top 25.
Pittsburgh fans apparently checked in 921 times on Foursquare for the schools opening day loss to Youngstown State. At the game were 40,837 people which means more than 2% of Pittsburgh fans checked in before their team checked out.
In terms of top 25 teams Texas drew the most check-ins with 665 with attendance peaking over 101,000.
Why the Big East Conference is so heavily integrated with Foursquare is anyone’s guess. The check-in rate is likely due to the rate of adoption towards location based services in the area. As with any technology there is usually a “first adopter” mentality in certain geographical locations. read more
Facebook has reportedly cut off API use for Twitter’s newest social app Vine. The move comes less than 24 hours after Vine was released for wide scale use.
