Finally Facebook has partnered with Gowalla and Foursquare to create Facebook Places.
They just updated the iPhone app but it is still not working. Nothing on the web yet.
A lot of questions though: How are they going to use Places? How are they going the manage check-ins? They said they were partnering with Gowalla and Foursquare but I cannot see how. Is Facebook going to kill this two successful startups?
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Comment by dani
dani August 19, 2010 at 10:56 am
Well, I updated the iPhone app, and there was an error. I logged out and now I cannot log in again.
I read they are rolling this out progressively.
For what I’ve seen, this is going to be big. RIP foursquare and Gowalla….
Comment by dani
dani August 20, 2010 at 10:55 am
I found out why I got the message with trying to log in on my iphone 3gs with 3.1.2 Facebook app: “unable to connect to facebook please try later iphone”
The problem is for jailbroken phones using biteSMS or iPhoneDelivery (the one I use to know when SMS are delivered).
If you remove this, it works. Petty I could not find a work around.