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Foursquare Launch of Facebook Places in US has all the features of a Facebook feature launch – huge publicity in media, indepth discussions on blogosphere, scrutiny by privacy advocates and of course, large number of users trying it out. One unexpected  but, positive consequence is that Foursquare is experiencing record interest in the wake of the launch of Facebook Places. On Thursday, the [...]

Image via CrunchBase Move over Facebook’s recently launched and fast catching ‘Open Graph’ feature, the  habit-inducing social networking site is reportedly planning a location-based feature that lets users “check-in” at real-world businesses and points of interest. TechCrunch reported about hidden code for the location feature on Facebook’s  mobile website [...]

Image via Wikipedia The war is well and truly on for the Numero Uno’ spot in location based gaming – Foursquare, Gowalla and MyTown being the contenders for the coveted title. While Foursquare and Gowalla have drawn huge media attention, it’s MyTown which looks to have taken the lead with a mammoth user base of nearly 500,000 users. MyTown traces its origin to another game, Booyah written [...]