When Facebook announced their local deals product earlier this week one of the big announcements was a free pair of jeans when you check into any Gap retailer. Well today that promotion went live….and Facebook Places promptly bit the big one in terms of stability.
Of course about six hours later I tried to check in again and it worked, but the free jeans were sadly gone….but hey at least I can get 40% off a single item.
If I could change one thing about Facebook Places I would allow users to pin locations to photos currently within the Facebook Universe. Right now their isnt a whole lot to be had on Facebook Places pages for business’
But imagine if you could pin the location of photos already within Facebook to Places locations. Instantly the social graph would start associating content with places not just people. In the future we’ll obviously see Facebook tap into the meta data smartphones are pinning on photos (location, but for the millions of photos already on Facebook) this would certainly be valuable.
If you could change one thing about Facebook Places what would it be?