Hack of the Day: Travel the World With Facebook Places
In these economic times it can be hard to justify spending thousands on airfare, hotels, and party-life travel destinations. So save your money and let geolocation services do the work for you.
If you want to visit an exotic location, then Facebook Places and a few browser tweaks are all you'll need.
Next Stop: Command Line Central Station
Facebook Places has been a topic of discussion in tech coverage in the wake of the product launch a few weeks ago. As it turns out, you can simply create your own Facebook Places-ready format file to take a quick trip to New York and visit the Statue of Liberty.
Simply do the following:
- Open a terminal or text editor and and place the JSON snippet in a file
- Open Firefox and browse to about:config
- Search for geo.wifi.uri
- Replace with the path to the file containing the JSON snippet
- Visit http://touch.facebook.com
- Select Places (and check in a friend!)
(I posted this from Research Triangle Park, NC at the time)
Where have you visited recently using Facebook Places? Let us know in the comments!
(Hat tips to: the Internet and @courtenaybird for the idea)
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In these economic times it can be hard to justify spending thousands on airfare, hotels, and party-life travel destinations. So save your money and let geolocation services do the work for you. \n\nIf you want to visit an exotic location, then Facebook Places and a few browser tweaks are all you'll need.