Has Mark Zuckerberg found social networkings “holy grail”?
Best Opinion: Business Insider, Financial Times, Gawker… Facebook unveiled its long-awaited “Places” feature Wednesday evening, allowing users in the U.S. to continually broadcast their location. Much like social networking site Foursquare, Places users can “check in” at various venues (say, a restaurant or a bar) and track the whereabouts of their friends. Will Facebook’s newest feature catch on? (Watch a report explaining the “Places” feature) This Foursquare rip-off will be a big hit: Places is a “straight rip-off” of Foursquare, says Nicholas Carlson in Business Insider. Unfortunately for that company, “Facebook’s 500 million users won’t care that Facebook got the idea for this product from elsewhere.” Not only that, they will “love it and use it – a lot.” “Facebook Places is an obvious Foursquare rip-off and it’s going to be huge” The only people using this will be burglars: I’ll be “scrambling to disable” Places, says Chris Rawson in The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Letting everyon
