Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has responded to the news that Facebook is taking on location tagging with Facebook Places, insisting that a redesign and new features will keep people checking in. Facebook Places offers many of the kind of features that has made Foursquare a hit, but Business Insider received an email from Crowley insisting that Facebook users were already well served. “We’re still a platform for location, specifically around sharing locations though check-ins, surfacing interesting things around you and using game mechanics to encourage and reward for certain actions and/or behaviours,” wrote Crowley. Location, location, location “Facebook also launched a location platform, which appears to be mostly based on checkins (and common FB elements like comments / likes / photos),” he added
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FourSquare responds to Facebook Places threat
