We all know that the newly launched Facebook “Places” is such as an obvious Foursquare rip-off. So it’s really interesting to know how Foursquare responds to that. And Business Insider was lucky to get email reply sent to the Fourquare CEO Dennis Crowley. Looking at the email, seems like there’s no worry at all on the Foursquare side. They even plan to integrate the Facebook Check-ins service into Foursquare in the future.
The email sent to the Foursquare CEO said, ““So is Facebook the location platform now? And is Foursquare an app on that platform?”. And here is the response:
No, we’re still a platform for location, specifically around sharing locations though check-ins, surfacing interesting things around you and using game mechanics to encourage and reward for certain actions and/or behaviors.
Facebook also launched a location platform, which appears to be mostly based on checkins (and common FB elements like comments/likes/photos).
We already allow users to publish their 4SQ checkins into the Facebook News Feed and we’ll eventually going to allow users to push them into the Facebook Checkin Feed. I’d imagine we’ll prob pull FB checkins into 4SQ too. We’re in the middle of a redesign and some new feature launches, so we’re going to get thru those before getting started on FB integration.
If the Facebook Integration is really happened to Foursquare, then it’s really interesting to see how the two networks work together while at the same time competing each other.
[via: BGR]
