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VentureBeathttp://venturebeat.com/2008/06/23/location-buzz-continues-nokia-buys-plazes-verizon-backs-loopt-niw/ [VentureBeat] %0APlazes, based in Berlin, Germany is a service that lets you share your location and leave a brief message — akin to Twitter —

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I Love Nokiahttp://ilovenokia.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/plazes-also-links-to-services-delight-in-twitter-which-provide-instant-messaging-tools-for-web-and-portable-phone-users-to-keep-track-of-their-friends-daily-activities/ [I Love Nokia] Plazes also links to services delight in Twitter which provide ...: HE: , , , ) said on Monday it would swallow group networking start-up Plazes ”” a smaller rival to services approve of Twitter and Jaiku ”” as part of the world’s top cellphone maker’s shoulder into Internet services.

ReadWriteWebhttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nokia_acquires_plazes.php [ReadWriteWeb] Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network: With Plazes and other recent acquisitions, Nokia is clearly connecting people through location-based services, maps, music communities, gaming, and — almost forgot —

The Next Webhttp://thenextweb.org/2008/06/23/keep-it-in-the-family-plazes-acquired-by-nokia/ [The Next Web] Keep it in the family: Plazes acquired by Nokia: The team is very excited to be able to further develop the Plazes service that is online today together with Nokia. If all goes well, in the near future plazes will be made available to millions of Nokia customers both online and on millions of mobile devices.

Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profileshttp://pulse2.com/2008/06/23/nokia-corporation-buys-global-location-aware-interaction-social-network-plazes/ [Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles] Nokia Corporation Buys Global Location-Aware Interaction Social ...: Fire Eagle.  The Plazer alows users to regularly update friends with your activities.  PlazeSMS is a feature that sends text messages to give away your location and find out your friend’s location.  Map Widget publicizes where your current location is on a blog or MySpace/Facebook profiles.  Plazes vs. Google Earth is the ability to watch a live streaming activity of where your friends are on Google Earth.  The calendar public activity shares your calendar with friends on iCal, Microsoft Outlook, or Google calendar.  Plazes &

The PhoneBoy Blog[The PhoneBoy Blog] Nokia To Acquire Plazes: This just came across my Nokia email this morning: Nokia is acquiring Berlin-based Plazes, which appears to be yet another social network that focuses on location. One thing that Plazes has going for it off the bat is SMS support in 6 .

Interaction Design UmeÃ¥[Interaction Design UmeÃ¥] Nokia aquires PLAZES: Founded in 2005, Plazes lets “friends” update each other about what they are doing when and where, resulting in a Twitter-like activity stream but with integrated geo-tagging. Users can then subscribe to any of their friends’ activity streams or to groups of friends, as well as to specific locations known as “Plazes”.

Mobilewhack.comhttp://www.mobilewhack.com/nokia-to-acquire-plazes/ [Mobilewhack.com] Nokia to Acquire Plazes: Curios what a Plazes is? It’s a social activity service which allows you to plan, record and share your social activities.

Mobile Tech Todayhttp://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=60408 [Mobile Tech Today] Nokia Acquires Social-Networking Site Plazes: Currently in beta, the Berlin-based Plazes site lets users update their locations and activities using either Plazes software or by sending text messages. Users can subscribe to activity streams from their friends or groups of friends, .

BHOPU BLOG-Category:Social Networking RSS Feeds[BHOPU BLOG-Category:Social Networking RSS Feeds] Connecting People and Plazes: Nokia has entered into an agreement to buy out all the assets of Plazes, a Berlin based social community website. His son owns a Nokia phone and said he was sitting at the bar enjoying his glass of beer.

BlogJunkies[BlogJunkies] Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network: With Plazes and other recent acquisitions, Nokia is clearly connecting people through location-based services, maps, music communities, gaming, and — almost forgot —

Wireless Blog[Wireless Blog] Nokia Acquires Social-Networking Site Plazes: Financial details of the acquisition were not released, but the 13 developers working at Plazes are expected to become part of Nokia's services-and-software division. Niklas Savander, director of Nokia services and software, said the acquisition will "will bring on a visionary team with an advanced understanding of social-activity services, as well as the technical ability to further develop this area."

last100http://www.last100.com/2008/06/23/nokia-purchases-plazes-a-location-based-social-networking-service/ [last100] Nokia purchases Plazes, a location-based social networking service: Imagine everything Nokia offers wrapped in a cuddly location-based, mapping, social network cloth where all of its users are connected to their interests and each other in the virtual and physical worlds at the same time.

blog.justindorfman.com | predictions, concepts, tutorials, etc.http://blog.justindorfman.com/2008/07/mobile-computing-week-wrap-up-june-30th.html [blog.justindorfman.com | predictions, concepts, tutorials, etc.] Mobile Computing Week Wrap Up - June 30th - July 6th 2008: Nokia has recently announced the acquisition of the context-aware social-activity service Plazes. Under the agreement, the Finnish giant will acquire all assets of the privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal .

last100http://www.last100.com/2008/06/29/weekly-wrapup-23-27-june-2008-google-enters-the-pc-to-tv-arena/ [last100] Weekly wrapup, 23-27 June 2008 (Google TV, Nokia opens fire on ...: he world’s largest handset manufacturer is purchasing Plazes, the location-based social networking service that’s based in Berlin with all of 13 employees.

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