Comments on: Why Didn't Facebook Launch Location Features?

By: Sounds Like Facebook Will Be Partnering With Foursquare, Not Competing

Sounds Like Facebook Will Be Partnering With Foursquare, Not Competing — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:01:15 +0000

[...] services, including a piece in the New York Times that quoted sources close to the company. But nothing along those lines was unveiled at the conference, or even discussed (although there have been reports that Facebook has been experimenting with [...]

By: Is Geolocation a Real Business or Just a Feature? | Gadget Public Informations

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:12:56 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, two of the giants of social networking — Twitter and Facebook — are also busy integrating location into their networks and services. Twitter has implemented geo-tagging of tweets, partly by buying MixerLabs for its geolocation API, and Facebook is widely expected to launch some form of location-based features (although it didn’t do so at its f8 conference, as some anticipated). [...]

By: Is Geolocation a Real Business or Just a Feature?

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Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:18:42 +0000

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By: Dave Nattriss

Dave Nattriss — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:13:30 +0000

Actually, if you’d bothered to read the new API documentation, you’ll see there’s plenty of location support in the Open Graph:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph

See the ‘Recommended Meta Data’ section. This will quickly build up a massive database of locations for Facebook, which they can then exploit later on.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:33:19 +0000

Perhaps because to location features as well would have seemed like stomping on privacy with both feet, rather than with just one?

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Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:50:36 +0000

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By: 5 link #24 – Club dei media sociali

5 link #24 – Club dei media sociali — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:42:08 +0000

[...] Why Didn’t Facebook Launch Location Features? La conferenza F8 era vista da molti osservatori come l’evento durante il quale Facebook avrebbe dovuto rivelare i suoi piani relativi alla geolocalizzazione. In questo post di GigaOM, Mathew Ingram avanza alcune ipotesi sui motivi alla base dell’assenza di annunci di questo tipo, concentrando la propria attenzione sulla possibilità che Facebook stia lavorando su accordi di partnership con player del settore (ad esempio Foursquare o Gowalla) piuttosto che sullo sviluppo di una soluzione interna. [...]

By: Sanjay Maharaj

Sanjay Maharaj — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:51:20 +0000

Yes I have a strong feeling that they will make a strong bid to purchase Foursquare. I makes sense froma strategic point to buy one of the top location based then to develop one now

By: James from SnackSquare.com

James from SnackSquare.com — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:49:09 +0000

Mathew, I'd say they're building it completely in house with deep integration with their facebook fan pages. Even if they do mention some heavy partnership or even Foursquare acquisition, a few months from now deep integration with their fan pages will exist. That's the end goal no matter what, and they'll do whatever they can to insure that this isn't messed up.

James CEO/CTO of SnackSquare.com