Facebook's 4 Big Rivals in Location-Based Technology

Facebook announced last week its much-anticipated location-based service, Places. Places, which is currently available only on mobile devices that support HTML 5 and with a GPS or geolocation feature, is set to pose a threat to other more-established services such as Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown and Whrrl.

Here's what you need to know about the alternatives and how Facebook's four big geolocation rivals stack up.

1. Foursquare
Foursquare, the mobile social networking startup that launched in 2009, lets users share locations with friends and awards points,badges and other perks for checking in frequently. If a user visits a restaurant, for example, he'd check-in to that location via his mobile device. His location would then become visible to his friends on Foursquare.....

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