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I didn't see it mentioned in the blog post, but in the press conference Z said they are not monetizing deals yet, and have no short term plans to.

EDIT: I removed a point saying I didn't think these would be more interesting than what Yelp does until they start to monetize. I think that's too strong a statement.



Except that they have such a huge existing userbase compared to Yelp (both in terms of end-users and businesses who are aware of them, and likely use Facebook themselves already).


I bet yelp has more queries per unit of time of people looking for places to go shop/eat/drink.


That's because you open yelp looking for NEW places to check out, fb/4sq is for the places you already are or friends are. People discovery vs venue/place discovery




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