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December 18, 2012 04:54 am GMT
"A location service only gets interesting when you get to a certain scale," and Foursquare isn't there yet says Josh Williams. His check-in app Gowalla wasn't either, but it was bought by Facebook where a quarter-billion people tag locations each month. In an interview, Williams tells me how the Nearby feature his team launched on Facebook today shows you that data "through the lens of what's around you right now".
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Josh Williams On Why Facebook Acquired His Startup Gowalla To Put A Nearby Lens On All Its Geo-Data
"A location service only gets interesting when you get to a certain scale," and Foursquare isn't there yet says Josh Williams. His check-in app Gowalla wasn't either, but it was bought by Facebook where a quarter-billion people tag locations each month. In an interview, Williams tells me how the Nearby feature his team launched on Facebook today shows you that data "through the lens of what's around you right now".Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Dnsv2TS3pUw/
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