Facebook Places: 36 Hrs Later
Well its been 36 hours more or less since Facebook announced their new Places features, and a solid day in which I’ve been able to get it working on my iPhone. So I wanted to post a quick follow up.
- first of all if you don’t already read The Next Web and their coverage of location, you really should… they did a lot of posts on Facebook Places, full of great insights. I thought the one titled “Why I deleted foursquare for good” was particularly good. That and pretty much all of Greg Sterling’s Screenwerks blog are great sources of info Read more
Facebook Places
Ok, well it’s been just over a year since FourSquare launched at SXSW 2009, and within days afterwards I am sure naysayers were saying, yeah that’s great but just wait till Facebook launches the same thing, and they’ll be toast. Well yesterday was that day…yesterday Facebook announced Facebook Places.
I am sure the details of what IT is will be reported all over the web, so I won’t go into all those details here… but I watched the video of the conference announcing it and major kudos to ex Socialight’er Michael Sharon (product mgr for Places) for what seems to be a nice well thought through execution… someone like Michael obviously “gets it” more than anyone, and I think that the feature will be a huge hit.
As a pretty passive user of Facebook, the thing I enjoy about it the most is the ability to easily keep tabs on friends… Read more
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