Facebook Places: A Goldmine For Geo, ccTLDs & Developers

A few hours ago Facebook announced “Places”. This enables you to learn about where your friends are. For example, if you are having a coffee at your local cafe, you can let your friends know where you are and they can join you.

Take note GEO domain developers! If you own a geo .com or a ccTLD you will want to integrate this into your website. It will enable your visitors to:

1. Share where they are with their friends.

2. Find out where your friends are (nearby and further away).

3. Tag photos and status updates with places.

Here is a short video of the Facebook Places Launch. Enjoy!

Facebook Revokes Vanity URL & Gives It Back

Harmon Bajwa woke up one morning to find a message from Facebook stating that his URL had been revoked on allegations of a policy violation.

The revocation came after a message from Bajwa International stating that the company had filed a complaint with Facebook and that they were willing to buy the URL from him. Apparently, even though Facebook holds the right to revoke any custom username, Mr. Bajwa was apparently not breaching any of Facebook’s policies.

Facebook has since apologized for the “overzealous” steps stating that the revocation was done purely on trademark protection grounds and not monetary ones.

Facebook Vanity URL = Domainer

Mashable is reporting that 500,000 usernames were registered in 15 mins. Well I happened to be watching the clock tick down, and acquired the keyword “domainer”. Feel free to get in contact.

To be honest, I really didn’t think this would be as big as it was. Within minutes I had people sending me friend invites…. some were people I’d known on forums and others were fellow bloggers.

I’d be interested to know your views on this. Did you register a name? Are you even on facebook?