Facebook Places vs. Google Places

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After noticing that Facebook places had gone live in Germany I though I'd do a comparison of Facebook Places and Google Places.
For this post I "checked in" while out for dinner on both services and include screen shots and notes.

Facebook Place
Facebook place pages concentric on "social" (no surprise there). There's limited information relating to the place.

• Phone number
• Adress with a link to Bing maps

I was interested to see an - "Is this your business?" link: claimed "places" are turned into Facebook pages, which are their business offering.

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Post to ... From Google Plus (Buzz)

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This is a suggestion I made privately to Google on Buzz a while ago. I'd like to run it by people  publicly now to hear what you think.

The suggestion is simple and would be easy for the Google Buzz team to set up.

Share button mock-up

Suggestion

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