In London, Facebook Shares More Details on Location Service, Social Plugins and European Traffic

Today in a special session of the Facebook Developer Garage London event series, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a few executives provided more details about the company’s product plans, and some updated statistics.

A location service is indeed on the way — “we are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon,” Zuckerberg said. While he referred to an application, a variety of hints point to a broader federated system where third parties would share location data back and forth with Facebook, rather than compete with it.

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