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Location-B Services
D’abord, d’un point de vue personnel, je trouve que Facebook Places a vite été abandonné (du moins par mes amis Facebook)… Souvenez-vous, au début on ne voyait que des « Mario est à Disneyland avec Luigi et Toad » qui rendaient nos timelines surchargées et noyaient nos informations dans cette nouvelle masse de contenu !
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LBS location based services
The two gained significant momentum , funding , and users in the location space in 2009. But even with the growth, both services are still relatively small, neither much bigger than 200,000 users. That’s why much larger social networks like Facebook are perceived to be a potential risk to them.
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This is the driving force behind Foursquare’s growing popularity. There have been other services, like Loopt and Brightkite , that have let you keep tabs on your friends for quite a while. But Foursquare’s check-in model has struck a chord because it provides more context (you know what people are up to as opposed to just where they are) and a greater amount of privacy, because you have to explicitly choose to check in.
Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo
While there has been a lot of talk of seamless check-ins, Crowley feels that Foursquare’s check-in model has an advantage over services such as Google’s Latitude. “Passive tracking stuff is going to prove to be shortsighted,” he says. In other words, it can cause some unforeseen problems, because you don’t want to disclose all the locations all the time. Crowley thinks that that there is a middle ground, where subtle reminders could encourage check-ins giving people the ultimate choice — whether they want to share their whereabouts. While he refused to share his product’s evolution, he was explicit in saying: Foursquare will be more than just dots and maps — it is going to be about experiences and places.
FourSquare’s Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats
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