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August 19, 2010
 

Facebook Places logo is a four in a square

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Kudos to Tim Shey/TechCrunch for finding this. Even more kudos to the graphic designer at Facebook (or whichever design shop they're using) who came up with it. If Facebook Places succeeds in crushing Foursquare (or even just marginalizing it), this could go down as one of the better, more vindictive logo designs. Not only is it clean, but it carries this really aggressive message. Notice how the placemarker also conveniently doubles as a spade, effectively stabbing the "four in the square". Evil genius.

Filed under  //   Facebook Places   Foursquare   design   location   strategy  

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March 25, 2010
 

Location Wars at SXSW

Speaks for itself. It's a little long (i.e. you get the point pretty quickly), but if SXSW was intended to be the one of the early, important skirmishes of the nascent location wars, this is how Foursquare fared against Gowalla, Twitter, Flickr and a few others. Incidentally, Foursquare is widely believed to have been the victor. It's still early though.

Filed under  //   Flickr   Foursquare   Gowalla   SXSW   Twitter   Vicarious.ly   check-in   location  

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