Filed under: Web services, Social Software, FacebookThe 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?Facebook Places is Facebook's foray into the location arena originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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