Facebook Places Is the Most Boring Location-Sharing Service Yet – And That’s a Good Thing

Aug 19, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Yesterday, Facebook launched Facebook Places, its new location-sharing service. As a location-sharing service, Facebook as about as barebones as they come. The functionality is limited to checking in and sharing your location with your Facebook friends.

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Facebook Questions Goes Live: Will it Kill Quora, Yahoo Answers, Ask and Co.?

Jul 28, 2010 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

Facebook just launched its long-awaited question and answer product dubbed Facebook Answers. You can now ask your social network any question you feel like and get answers from your extended network

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Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy

Feb 10, 2010 107 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

We saw an interesting phenomenon on ReadWriteWeb today. My colleague Mike Melanson wrote a post about Facebook Connect, which now shows up as the #1 search results on Google News and also as a new result on Google’s main search engine. That – by itself – wouldn’t be something out of the ordinary, but here is what [...]

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