{"id":94608705,"date":"2011-08-25T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/facebook-to-phase-out-places-while-expanding-other-location-features\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:25:41","slug":"facebook-to-phase-out-places-while-expanding-other-location-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/facebook-to-phase-out-places-while-expanding-other-location-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to Phase Out \u201cPlaces\u201d While Expanding Other Location Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faceboook’s Places will soon be phased out <\/strong><\/div>\n

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\u201cPlaces,\u201d Facebook\u2019s response to the wildly successful start-up Foursuqare<\/strong>, is now being phased out according to a recent blog post from the folks at Team Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

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The mobile feature, which allowed travelers to \u201ccheck-in\u201d at locations all over the world, never quite caught on like Facbook <\/strong>had hoped. Some reports indicated that two months after its launch, only 30 million people (a paltry six percent of Facebook\u2019s enormous user base) had used the \u201ccheck-in\u201d feature at least once.<\/p>\n

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While Facebook may be admitting defeat to Foursquare for the title of Mobile Check-In King, this is far from the end of Facebook\u2019s foray into location-based updates.<\/p>\n

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Instead of a dedicated check-in feature, Faceboook will now encourage users to share their location whenever they share a photo, status update, or Wall post. Unlike Places, the new location features will be available across all of Facebook\u2019s platforms, not just the mobile version.<\/p>\n

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Source: Huffington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Flickr: David Armano <\/a>
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  Faceboook’s Places will soon be phased out   \u201cPlaces,\u201d Facebook\u2019s response to the wildly successful start-up Foursuqare, is now being phased out according to a recent blog post from the folks at Team Zuckerberg.   The mobile feature, which allowed travelers to \u201ccheck-in\u201d at locations all over the world, never quite caught on like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201688,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608705\/revisions\/97201688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}