{"id":10287,"date":"2010-09-14T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T04:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10287"},"modified":"2010-09-14T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T04:40:55","slug":"facebook-launches-places-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/facebook-launches-places-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Launches Places in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/skagitpud.org\/images\/uploads\/facebook-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\nAs reported earlier on <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/09\/13\/facebook-places-launches-in-japan\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>, Japan has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20100913007488\/ja\"> officially become <\/a>the first country outside of the United States to\u00a0receive\u00a0Facebook Places. It comes as no surprise that Facbeook HQ made Japan top priority in releasing Places &#8211; with Japan&#8217;s social urban lifestyle and feature loaded cell phones, Japan is a hotbed for location services. Foreign location services like Foursquare and domestic services like <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/cellphone-geo-location-game-coropura-gets-750000-users\/\">CoroPura<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tou.ch\/\">Tou.ch<\/a> have grown\u00a0immensely\u00a0popular; Shibuya Station reigns as the most checked in location in the world on Foursquare.\u00a0The launch of Facebook Places also comes on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/mixi-goes-facebook-ii-mixi-check-in-is-facebook-places\/\">Mixi&#8217;s latest announcement <\/a>of their location service &#8220;Check-in&#8221;. With\u00a0nearly all Japanese 3G cellphones having <a href=\"http:\/\/plusd.itmedia.co.jp\/mobile\/articles\/0405\/18\/news034.html\">GPS functionality since 2007<\/a>, all of these services have considerable room to grow &#8211; though it is still unclear whether Japanese users will opt for foreign or domestic services.<br \/>\nThe launch of Facebook Places in Japan also comes preloaded with an extensive variety of locations already integrated thanks to an unnamed 3rd party database. Up until this weekend, the listed locations on Places was barren save for a few check-ins by beta testers. Now, locations in and around Tokyo are nearly complete, and even on my weekend adventure into the country side I found numerous locations\u00a0pre-registered. While Facebook Japan continues with the development of their local mobile site and <a href=\"http:\/\/event.rakuten.co.jp\/used\/campaign\/michael\/\">integration of &#8220;Like&#8221; buttons<\/a> in major websites, \u00a0Facebook Places will play a role as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/FacebookJapan?ref=ts\">Facebook Japan<\/a> continues to grow their user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has officially become the first country outside of the United States to receive Facebook Places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[760,1131,1340,1432,2134,2346,3772],"class_list":["post-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-technology","tag-coropura","tag-facebook","tag-geo-location","tag-gps","tag-location","tag-mixi-check-in","tag-tou-ch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}