iPhone News - Facebook launches Places, location check-in for the iPhone news - Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject: Facebook launches Places, location check-in for the iPhone
Facebook is launching that much-rumored Foursquare-competing product, called Places. It is to help you with three things: help you see where you are, help you see who?s around you, and help you see what?s going on nearby (discovery). You can tag friends with you while checking in to locations.