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This coupled with the abandoning of Places makes me think Facebook is undergoing a serious narrowing of focus. While I'm clearly not a fan (as you can probably
by ary 15y ago
This coupled with the abandoning of Places makes me think Facebook is undergoing a serious narrowing of focus. While I'm clearly not a fan (as you can probably judge from my comments), I'd still like to see a company that gets lots of press do something innovative or, in absence of that, just new and different. The pessimist in me thinks it will be yet another web platform play.
- saurik 15y agoThey did not abandon Places... I'd even say they did the exact opposite: they integrated the feature into everything, so instead of just being able to say "I'm here now", you can now state that /anything/ occurred there (and at any time in the past, when relevant) by tagging things like status updates or pictures with Places. You can even get exactly the old behavior by making a post that includes only a location, and no status. I really have no clue how this crazy rumor started that they abandoned or discontinued Places :(.
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- ary 15y agoMy understanding is that they are abandoning Places in favor of just attaching location to posts of all kinds. Perhaps we're both correct? I didn't mean to imply that FB was removing all location related features as they most certainly are not. My source for my comment above is the TechCrunch that made it to the HN front page a ffew days ago. [1] [1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/facebook-location-tagging/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/facebook-location-tagging/
- ThomPete 15y agoIt started beecause they are taking it out of the mobile App as far as I remember. If true I don't understand why they couldn't just add the features to the app instead of removing one of the most useful features of Facebook.