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Day before yesterday Facebook launched Places. It will soon be available to all users in US and eventually for everyone worldwide.

Basically what you will be able to do is share your actual location data with friends by checking in at a location. You can also tag the friends who are there along with you, just like you would tag them in pictures. You can get alerts about (or even from) friends who are nearby like you do in Latitude. Like in every other service you will be able to check in from a mobile device. They are currently rolling out support to facebook on iphone and touch.facebook.com . The best thing about this feature’s rollout by facebook is its privacy settings. They have been properly done. You can read about them and the features here.

This is quite a significant development in social media. Read more..

Couple of days ago, Facebook came out with a rather expected but huge announcement. The announcement with the revelation of these statistics is massive in a way. Facebook has been among the most visited sites in the world in the world for a while now but these huge numbers and its weight as a global platform make it one of the most powerful sites in the world. It has now obliterated all competition on the social network sphere and is head to head with Google for web dominance. It is aggressively marketing itself in emerging markets by tying up with mobile operators and often introducing a zero plan where mobile facebook access isn’t charged. ….Read More