Places, Please: New Facebook Location Service is Here
The new Facebook geolocation feature is here, and it is called “Places”. The new service will let Facebook users tag their status updates with where they are, “like”, and otherwise interact with Places. The new service isn’t meant as a competitor for similar services such as Gowalla or Foursquare, but will integrate with them. Following along with the release announcement on the Facebook Innovations live stream channel we learned the following: -Places has been in the works for quite some time (there were titters when Zuckerberg said it had been cooking for a few months) -find out where your…