Saturday, May 3, 2014

Is Instagram’s move to replace Foursquare with Facebook Places premature?

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Jonathan Barouch is CEO and Founder of location-based analytics company Local Measure. About a month ago, a subset of Instagram users noticed something a little unusual when snapping Lo-Fi shots of their coffees. When they went to tag a photo of their non-fat almond milk vanilla lattes to the cafe’s location, Instagram appeared to have replaced its list of recommended “location names” to Facebook Places, where users had previously had access to the “powered by Foursquare” list. Some blogs suggested that this was just a test to experiment the results of migrating some of their users to Facebook’s own place database while...

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Is Instagram’s move to replace Foursquare with Facebook Places premature?

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