Facebook Places continued to receive prominent coverage this past week about its features, popularity (or lack thereof) and implementations. Surprisingly, one report stated that 96% of people do not use location based services of any kind. This leaves plenty of opportunity for growth for Places, Four Square and Gowalla. It will be interesting to see new applications and trends as consumers warm up to the idea.   One new application featuring Facebook Places integration that…

  Our featured story last week involved Facebook Places and its privacy and safety implications for Facebook users. "Places" was again front and center this week as social media pundits, privacy experts and technology gurus all put their 2 cents in on the issue. The general consensus is that Facebook did a little better job in implementing this feature, but privacy advocates still find room for improvement. Users still have to tweak and toggle settings…

Facebook Places Well, we've made it through another week! The word on the street this week was the impending announcement of Facebook's location based features being released, and Facebook didn't disappoint. Learning from past mistakes, the default setting for Places is "friends only". If you want to totally opt out of Places, then check out our blog post: Facebook Places - The Good, The Bad and The Fugly. If you decide to take the plunge…

Good morning Facecrooks! One of the funniest stories of the week actually turned out to be a hoax.“Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” "Jenny DryErase was created by John and Leo Resig and was featured on thechive.com. It turns out that "Jenny" was actually played by Elyse Porterfield, an aspiring young actress that had just moved to L.A. from Greeley, Colorado. She quickly gained internet stardom and has…