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Hi guys. Today I thought we’d take a look at how to easily add Google Maps to your pages. Many of the examples I’ve seen online for how to use the Maps service rely on you being able to get the exact longitude and latitude of your location for the API to figure out where the location you want to show is displayed. I think that this is a little too demanding for any business (or developer) to easily lookup and so I thought I’d share with you a much easier way of getting Maps on your site (whether you want to highlight one location or many)…and all you’ll need is the addresses!

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If you’re a web developer and you haven’t explored the many ins and outs of Facebook app development so far, I would definitely recommend taking a weekend out just to try it out – you might be surprised at what you might learn (and it always looks good on a resume ). What I like about the Facebook platform is that you get a nice steady integrated flow of your friends comments, events, application notices and more made we want to ask the question – how can I build something cool that can use all this data? It’s actually surprisingly straightforward.
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