Facebook Places using Bing Maps

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[image courtesy of Chris Pendleton]

Big news on the web today (well, on Techmeme) is Facebook adding location to their service in the form of Facebook Places.

 

Starting today, you can immediately tell people about that favorite spot with Facebook Places. You can share where you are and the friends you're with in real time from your mobile device.

You can do this from the most recent version of the Facebook iPhone app or touch.facebook.com – you just check in from either and your status appears in friends feeds. As interesting for me was to hear that Facebook is using Bing Maps to pinpoint locations on Facebook.com

Nice…though right now it doesn’t seem to be showing up for me which I think it down to it being US only. I know, I’m in the US but I think one of my settings somewhere in Facebook still has me in the UK. Hmmm