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At Facebook’s Places event earlier tonight, they noted that their iPhone app would be updated tonight with the new check-in functionality. Sure enough, here it is. Though the App Store update alert hasn’t kicked in yet, if you go to the actual page and redownload it, it should be the latest version (version 3.2). As you can see, the new Places area is front and center in the app. Clicking on it brings up a list of your friends who have recently checked in to various places. Clicking on those friends shows more details about the place they are at.
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Live From Facebook’s Location Event (Video Stream)
We’re at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, where the social network is finally unveiling its much-anticipated location feature, which will be called Places . We’ve already published the first screenshots of the new feature, but we’re about to get the full rundown on how it works and who Facebook is partnering with. The company has invited dozens of press to the event (it even shuttled some of them down from San Francisco), and it’s clear that it’s treating this as a very big deal. I’m liveblogging my notes from the event below.
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Today at an event at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled their new Places product — their location/check-in solution.Facebook Wants Advertisers To Help Build Out Its Directory of Places
As we heard tonight, Facebook has officially launched Places, the social network’s location-based platform. We know what Places will mean for Facebook users. Users will be able to check-in to Places (created by both people and businesses) via the web or through mobile apps. And the feature has an API so partners like Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and Booyah can allow their users to check-in to Facebook’s places. But what does this mean for businesses? Interestingly, Facebook seems to actively be targeting advertisers on the network.
Facebook will now become the platform on which other check-in applications like Foursquare will be built. This puts Facebook in an even more powerful position than it is already in. If Facebook's check-in functionality takes hold as the world's default check-in engine, there's a chance that much of the mobile application world will incorporate its API. And that can only be good for the company.
The Implications Of Facebook's "Places"
With Facebook’s announcement of a check-in feature dubbed Facebook Places , we’re all wondering how it will affect location-based services like Foursquare . So I went ahead and asked founder and chief executive Dennis Crowley. While Foursquare had a presence at the Facebook announcement, it wasn’t very clear what exactly the two companies would be doing together . Other location-based games, like Gowalla and Booyah, were a bit more vocal claiming integrations with Facebook.
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley: Still deciding on Facebook Places | VentureBeat
MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Today at an event in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled its new Places product — essentially their check-in utility .
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I love how companies “cooperate” in the tech industry. Twitter recently “helped” out TweetMeme by giving them another business to focus on. Facebook has now “helped” out Foursquare by making them wonder what’s next. They also welcomed the company up on stage to announce that they would … GASP … consider what to do with Facebook Places! Apparently Foursquare will eventually have Facebook integration, however right now they are working on their own product roadmap and don’t have the resources to integrate. Contrast this with Booyah who’s already launching a new application, called InCrowd, on the back of Facebook’s Places API.
Facebook Places Plays Nice with Yelp, Foursquare, Gowalla and Booyah - O'Reilly Radar
Facebook just launched Places for the United States. In short, it is a location check-in platform. They launched with four partners (Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and Booyah) all of whom are federating check-ins in some way. The Places API is currently read-only, while the Write & Search API are in closed beta. The launch will be available via a new iPhone app and the Facebook mobile site (requires a browser with HTML5 and geolocation). From these apps you can check yourself into a location, create a new place ,and check-in friends.