One of the odd aspects of the Facebook event launching the new Facebook Places service was the participation, support, and partnership of competing location-based check-in services. There may be some ...

Foursquare began nudging social networks out of the virtual world and into the real one when it launched its "location-awareness" service roughly a year ago. On Wednesday, Facebook pushed real-world ...

Facebook Places allows users to check-in to locations using a mobile phone, much like Foursquare, Gowalla, or Yelp. But up until recently the feature was only available in a handful of countries ...

Palo Alto, CA–Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company’s latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “This ...

With the launch of Facebook Places, users need to figure out if this service is a cool new tool or an overbearing feature best avoided. The social networking site’s new location-based feature , dubbed ...

Facebook’s been launching lots of new products and making big changes to existing ones recently, and in conjunction the company has been moving around some of its high-profile employees to new roles.

As the internet has evolved and devices have proliferated, people have begun discovering the benefits of real-time information sharing. To date, they have primarily accessed this information with real ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

There’s an updated Facebook app available for BlackBerry which adds support for Facebook Places. In other words, you can check-in to locations using the Facebook app for BlackBerry. FaceBook Places ...

Facebook jumped into the location-based check-in arena this week with the launch of Facebook Places. Facebook Places has the potential to dominate, but in its early form it is missing key elements it ...