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Facebook Places is Facebook's foray into the location arena
The launch of Facebook Places marks Facebook's long-awaited entry into the location-based social networking game. Far from destroying Foursquare and Gowalla, though, Facebook actually got those companies, along with Yelp and MyTown, on board with its Places API. Check-ins should eventually flow both ways, making it as easy as possible to tell Facebook -- I mean, uh, your friends -- where you are.Badges and tags from other apps will transfer over to Facebook as well, and you'll eventually be able to add and tag venues using Facebook. No word on whether those venues will transfer to the other apps, but I imagine they eventually will. The read API for Facebook Places has launched as of today, and write and search functions are still in beta.
So, what do we make of all of this? Will Facebook make location into more than a passing trend? Does this make checking in more fun and useful, or does it just add more spam and give Facebook even more of your personal data?
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Subscribe to commentsrichard.gaileyAug 19th 2010 8:21AM
Disabled this the second I saw it go live.
IriaAug 19th 2010 9:17AM
I honestly don't see the reason for these services.. Mostly, I think it's because of incidents like these ... how much personal info do we want evern our friends to see ... http://exm.nr/bcZmCZ
MindlessAug 20th 2010 4:00AM
I cant even log in anymore with my Jailbroken iPhone4...
Hai LeAug 21st 2010 2:32AM
Facebook Places use Bing map database that Microsoft will have a lot of advantage and benefits
jenniferAug 21st 2010 7:29AM
Cool, can’t wait to see what Facebook has to add to the location space. I think it has a definite advantage over Foursquare, etc just because so many people already use it.
http://technologiez.net/2010/08/21/facebook-holds-its-pitch-for-places-video/