NYT: Facebook to Introduce Location Sharing Tool Next Month

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 9, 2010 - 10:10am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook plans to enter the location-based service sector next month, when it will launch a feature that lets users chime in with their current location, The New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the project.

Also offered as evidence was a change to Facebook's privacy policy in November that addressed sharing of locations.

Sources told The Times that Facebook has been working on a location-based tool for "close to a year, but decided to wait until the product was completely ready for mainstream adoption before announcing it."

The proposed service is believed to include a set of APIs that will let developers offer their own location-based services to Facebook users.

The company has been "trying to figure out how to add location data to its service without raising potential privacy concerns or negative feedback from its users," The Times reported.

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Published in DMW Daily, March 9, 2010

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Submitted by ReputationManagementConsultants.com (not verified) on March 9, 2010 - 8:47pm.

This is cool. And we like the adding of privacy policy part - it is just essential that there's this kind of setting so that privacy is protected. Hope this works soon.