With social plugins Facebook now stretches its influence across the web.

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The web now stretches everywhere. LBS + Linked Data + Facebook.

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It makes sense that FB could do what it's about to do for the web to the world at large.

so

How long before i buy a Coke at Tesco with Facebook Credits on my phone?

or

How long before the T-Shirt i just bought at Uniqlo with my Facebook credits is instantly shared with my 'Friends'?

or

How long before Nike Town has a physical 'like' button that can talk to my phone?

Anyone invented the physical 'like' button yet? Have to think on about it... be good to hear other peoples thoughts.

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Lucy Anne added some nice context to this that i'd missed/been to lazy too look for, with FB testing QR codes and, despite lack of official LBS announcement at F8, the use of Facebook presence with RFID around the confernce.

Which makes me think that accelerated development of Near Field Communication would be a better way than QR or RFID but perhaps a more troublesome birth. Maybe FB should just bring out a card, that i can just to check-in, pay etc. Or maybe just a badge with RFID on my 'lapel' would be good. That's surely not that hard and you can pass the expense directly onto the consumer who wants it. The mobile will eventually supersede but perhaps be less fun.

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Yay Tom and Odin at Nation went and made one...