Facebook and Foursquare
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Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo
Over the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare , a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball.
Facebook Places: What's Foursquare's Next Move?
With the launch of Facebook Places , many are questioning the survival of the location services who pioneered the place checkin.
When Facebook Places launched in August, the media wasted little time in calling game, set and match on Foursquare and its location-based social network (LBSN) brethren .
Facebook vs. Foursquare: It's Game Time
How Foursquare Feels About Facebook Places
Conventional wisdom dictates that when an industry Goliath repackages and rolls out your core product, your business is in a bit of trouble. For many location-based startups, including Foursquare, users and tech industry analysts are concerned about their chances of survival in a post- Facebook Places market.New Facebook patent could threaten Foursquare and Gowalla
While Facebook Places wasn’t the first on the location-based services scene, it may have just became the top dog. According to Eric Sherman at CBS’s BNET site , the company has been granted a very broad patent , filed in 2007, called “Systems and methods for automatically locating Web-based social network members.” If the patent sounds a lot like targeting social network users using their smartphones and allowing them to check in to addresses, then you’ve pretty much described all of the location-based services available today, including popular mobile apps Foursquare and Gowalla .
Is Facebook Foursquare's Enemy? It's Complicated
At this point, pretty much every tech industry insider knows that Facebook is going to jump into the geolocation game . First rumored to be launching at Facebook’s F8 conference back in April, the exact date of Facebook’s location launch has been up in the air .