Iphone. Geolocation. Facebook Places Gets “Before” Mark. Evidence That Facebook Places Is About To Launch. Right now dozens of reporters are making their way down to Facebook’s Palo Alto offices for a special event that’s widely believed to be the launch of its long-rumored location feature. We’ve just come across evidence that this is, indeed, what the event will be focusing on, and it’s going to be called Facebook Places. Nestled in the source of Facebook’s homepage (which I enjoy browsing as a hobby) are two references to Places — namely, a section of the page that will be called pagelet_places_opt_in.
My colleague MG Siegler conducted a similar search earlier this week and saw no evidence of the Places opt-in, so it looks like this is new. The code itself is obfuscated so it’s difficult to find where it points to (let us know if you figure it out in the comments), but this will almost certainly be one of Facebook’s alert messages that appears above the News Feed. MessageParty. Facebook Launches Its Location Features [LIVE] Facebook Places is almost here, and we're about to find out just what geolocation concoction Facebook has been cooking up for the last few months. We're here live at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, for a press event. The world's largest social network is expected to unveil its new geolocation features, dubbed by most "Facebook Places.
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Why The “Location Wars” Spell Trouble – & Opportunity – For Local SEO. There has been a lot of hype lately about “location wars.” It all sounds pretty great, particularly if you have a fetish for war metaphors—but what are people talking about, exactly? In a nutshell, the pundits touting the coming location wars are proclaiming that the world is now going to be checking in everywhere just for the hell of it. Maybe you’ll get a half-priced soup and sandwich deal round the corner or something. Maybe you’ll be able to impress your friends that you ousted that guy on the third floor as Mayor of the local adult entertainment establishment. So what? It seems certain that as demand for interactive mobile experiences grows, the Foursquares and GoWallas of the world will thrive. According to one report Foursquare is averaged one check-in every second in January.
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