One time ... at #Facebook Places ...

This was set up so nicely ...

#Facebook promotes "Places" in right hand navigation

HMMMMM ... looky looky what I just noticed on my Facebook page ...

In the right hand navigation above the ads, they posted something called "Friends' Popular Places." This is clearly an attempt to get more peeps to use their location based social media service "Facebook Places," but I'm just not buying it. Facebook Places sucks! I have yet to be able to even USE the damn thing on my Droid!! It's gotta be a problem with the GPS or something in the app ... but for real, I've updated it, done all of my own trouble shooting - it's just a piece of crap. Furthermore, Foursquare has the gaming component, which the nerds love, so it clearly adds value. What value does Facebook Places have right now?? It's just not there yet. There's no incentive, and no friggen established value.

Facebook Deals has promise, and I get it ... but we're still just not there yet. Facebook's response to that I guess was by drumming it up via the bandwagon effect. Dude, 59,333 checkins at the SFO airport? Is that just in my own network? What does that figure represent? Furthermore, and this one could be a stretch, but did you pick up the fact that I just checked in to two airports yesterday? I updated on Facebook that I wasn't molested by TSA, and tweeted about it obviously ... but I found the timing of it made me suspect.

Oh Marky Mark and your Facebook bunch!!!! You're just so good at keeping us guessing!!

Oh baby, I love it when you pout at me like that ...

#Drool

Facebook Places, Foursquare, & @GoMiso: The Future of #Checkins

I tried using Facebook Places today, and was met with nothing but epic failure on my Motorola Droid. I can only assume it had more to do with a crappy GPS than the actual application. But oh yeah, if you guys didn't know ... Facebook announced its venture into LBSM (location based social media) yesterday. Here's the official TNTML social commentary on social media ... aka the real time chat on my uh, Facebook wall.

Can I just say, this is just the greatest thing since sliced bread. Literally ... sliced bread ...

yeah baby, cut me like that ... uh huhhhh!!!!

Alrite, sim simma ... for reals ... I've been using FourSquare for about the last year or so, and people still think I'm nuts. Hence why I even emailed Foursquare back in January with my idea for an experiment I could conduct to establish value. The nerd community is fairly divided. A lot of peeps I know dig Foursquare and are heavily addicted to checkins, and the others refuse to join because they never leave their house. Totally kosher either way, I don't care how anyone chooses to lead their life, as long as they're happy ... but let's at least give people options.

Stories have been buzzing all day that, Facebook Places is going to be a Foursquare killer ... and I could not disagree more. No really - given, as long as Naveen and Dennis honestly don't mess up royally on a business management level (ala Brad Greenspan post myspace LiveVideo venture *cough cough*), the public's diehard love for Foursquare I think will only add value to location based social media as a whole.

Facebook has a built in base of 500 million users. I mean crazy, crazy, crazy ... yet, people still never understood WHY they needed to checkin places. That whole stalker thing still freaked people out. This will IMMEDIATELY establish value in the public's brain of why they think its cool to checkin. Because whether or not you want to, your friends will still be able to check you in, unless of course you opt out - but again, I really do not believe the majority of people will.

I'll let mashable break down Facebook Places for you. I personally have yet to use it, although yes - I was checked in by a fellow TNTML nerd while I was at the Dodgers game tonight. I can't speak to my personal experience for it, but HOLY CRAPPPPPPP!!! I am so excited about where this is going!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the actual post.

This appeared on my wall.

Don't leave your house a lot, but still dig the desire to checkin? Don't worry, try @gomiso. I just met with their CEO a few months back, who is just all shades of awesome applesauce ... and now baby is their time to shine. For reals ... their app just became available on the Droid, and I totally downloaded it this morning. It's awesome. Easy to use, and really, really, really, cool!!! However, again - we need more. Foursquare is great because of the tips AND badges. Yes, @gomiso does have badges which are pretty and all - but the tips are the total tipping point for me. That time that I was at Urth Cafe, and wanted help deciding between an Americano or a latte, and I read the tip of how awesome their foam was, it just about made my nerdy little life. For reals, it made my life. I love being a nerd!!!!!!

Anywho, given the current trend, I think there's only about 3 months before checkins becomes mainstream for entertainment, web based or otherwise. We're going to start to get a feel for checkins via Facebook Places, and again - I think it is only going to add that much more of a value to Foursquare and @gomiso ... but @gomiso really need to step up their game. One thing I LOVEEEE is that anytime I checkin on @gomiso, someone, somewhere will tweet me and tell me some tidbit about something I am watching.

See, today ... @adamreisinger commented about watching the movie 21.

All the buttons on the elevator were set to awesome on that one, and boy oh boy, I dug it. That will add value to my entertainment, and will get me to want to checkin more. Again, if Marky Mark and his funky bunch are going to introduce it, I think it's fab oh fab that services like @gomiso can really add value to people's experiences even if they don't leave the house. Everyone is going to have that urge to checkin and engage ... so give the people want they want, and keep them coming back by ADDING VAALLUUUEEEEEE!!!!! #Bah! I just get so darn excited. Thanks for listening!

Download @gomiso everyone!!!! Now its available on the droid and iphone - so you have no excuse.

#nerdsunite