With Facebook integrating location based services into their platform in the coming months, many are wondering how the new service will be implemented. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that Facebook will definitely be enabling services like Foursquare and Gowalla, rather than competing with them directly. From the sound of things, Facebook’s implementation could be similar in some ways to Twitter’s new implementation.
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According to Nick Bilton of the New York Times, Facebook is aiming to “take the wraps off a new location-based feature in late April at f8″. This confirms details that were first provided by Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal earlier this month. Given that location-based services are increasingly the center of attention in the social media space, it’s not surprising that news about Facebook’s new location product has been leaking out recently.
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