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Facebook Places and the Future of Location-Based Services

Published on August 19, 2010 By Jed

Facebook finally announced their location-based service, called Facebook Places, yesterday at a conference/launch-party at the Facebook Palo Alto headquarters. A couple quick highlights from the presenters:

Facebook’s New Location Feature Is Called “Places”…Just Like Google!

Published on June 1, 2010 By Jed

About a month ago, Techcrunch announced that Facebook would be rolling out location-based checkin functionality for their mobile app, and that it would most likely be dubbed the “Places” tab. Geo-location is all the rage now, with Foursquare nearing 1 million checkins a day and Gowalla at a quarter million users, and while it’s no [...]