I’m really excited about the release of Facebook Places. It’s not widely available yet but it should be rolled out to American Facebook users over the next 24 hours.

Facebook places on the iPhone

The features:

  1. Checking in to places, for where you are at the moment
  2. Tagging friends as being with you at a place
  3. Seeing where your friends are and have been
  4. An extensive API for accessing a users places data

It’s number 4 that’s exciting to me. Facebook gives a bunch of examples of ways the API could be used - including:

A travel application that gives people the ability to see which of their friends have already been to the place they are visiting.

That’s kind of exactly what I’ve been building. Starting next week, I’ll be working on the re-release of weheartplaces, integrated with the Facebook Places api.