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Tags: community, facebook, facebook features, location based, twitter, twitter features

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users’ News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. Twitter already has a geolocation feature that has been spotted in the wild. Meanwhile, social location upstart Foursquare will offer a free analytics tool and dashboard to give business owners information and statistics about visitors to their establishments. Google is also heavily invested in the future of location and social networking.

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users’ News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services.

A March 9 report in the New York Times cited sources saying Facebook would announce the news at its F8 developer conference, slated for April 21 and 22 in San Francisco.

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Tags: community, facebook, facebook users, social sites, world population

That’s right. Facebook says it now has 120 million members. By my reckoning, that’s 2% of the world’s 6 billion people.

If you think that’s astonishing, consider that there’s still plenty of low hanging fruit for Facebook to pluck. I know plenty of tech savvy people, many of them under 30, who have yet to sign up. Inevitably, these people will give in.

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BCC News has posted an article about the Web 2.0 Expo conference.

…San Francisco’s Web 2.0 Expo conference brought together thousands of people responsible for crafting the future direction of the internet, and the world of applications – or apps – was front and centre.

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