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[Untitled] The big news today is Nokia’s intention to purchase LBS web app Plazes, which will provide the handset maker with social mapping for its new web portal Ovi. Plazes has been around for a while now and is more or less a service that lets .

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[TheNextWeb.org] Keep it in the family: Plazes acquired by Nokia « TheNextWeb.com: The deal also reminds us of another European acquisition earlier this week, with Berlin-based Plazes being snapped up by Nokia. [...]

[O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies] Nokia Acquires Plazes: To Be Ovi's New Mapping App - O'Reilly Radar: Nokia, the world's leading handset manufacturer, has announced its intention to acquire LBS web app Plazes. Berlin-based Plazes will provide Nokia with a social mapping property for Ovi, its new web portal.

[chromewalker] Location Based Services Part 3: Chromewalker’s Four Cardinal ...: In the background, the service actually takes all of the information from your message, determines whether the recipient has a mobile client installed (both people are recognized user IDs of the service), and if so, delivers it natively, if not, it formats a wap page with the content as the author intended it to be viewed, and then sends the recipient an SMS with a WAP link that upon click, launches the default mobile browser and renders an experience almost similar to that of the original app. This concept is not new, this is how CDMA phones used to do SMS receive before SMS was part of the typical service offering of CDMA handsets.

[Symbian in Motion] Symbian in Motion » Nokia Plazes - Is it Going Anywhere?: While Nokia can do what it can to keep the service running as it is, the truth of the matter is that Plazes staff is busy learning Nokia's tech and way of doing things, while getting little to no time to keep up the tech they invented.

[Webware.com] Mileposts on the geo Web: Plazes and Praized | Webware - CNET: Both Plazes and Praized are based on leveraging their own proprietary databases. Plazes is collecting the data of Wi-Fi access point locations (based on coordinating MAC addresses with user reports of location) as well as matching location coordinates with the places that users hang out at (for example, the Starbucks at SFO).

[AppScout] Nokia Buys Mobile App Plazes - AppScout: Nokia's purchase of the 13-person German company is expected to close sometime in the third-quarter of 2008, at which point Plazes will be folded into Nokia's Services and Software division.

[GPS Obsessed] How Much Will Nokia’s Ovi Password Integration Help Its Bottom ...: Turn your thoughts to the sheer amount of social networking platforms and Web 2.0 services these days that people use.  I know from my experience that username and password management can be a huge hassle.  If I forget my password for a particular service, it’s likely that I won’t use it again if its a service I use for entertainment or recreation.  That’s one of the great things about Facebook Connect–which will be coming to GPSObsessed soon–and Google Friend Connect–join our site.  Most people that take the time to comment on blogs use Facebook or a Google service.  By using a username or password from one of those respective services, it removes a whole whack of registrations usually required to comment on blogs.  As more sites integrate the Connect services into their publications we’ll probably see a lot more reader interaction.

[24 ways] 24 ways: Geotag Everywhere with Fire Eagle: That said, this is still a time of location as an emerging technology. Fire Eagle stores your location on the web (protected by application-specific access controls), but to try and give an idea of how useful and powerful your location can be ”” regardless of the services you use now ”” today’s 24ways is going to build a bookmarklet to call up your location on demand, in any web application.

[dale lane] CurrentCost - the CC128 « dale lane: There aren’t any individual appliance sensors available yet, but this is an exciting sign of things to come. Presumably at some point there will be plug adaptors which include a transmitter, making this new CurrentCost display an aggregator for multiple sources of input.

[Untitled] Self Generated Content Infrastructure | Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts: it should list all stuff for this tag, be it del.icio.us, tumblr, or wordpress. I want it to understand my exact location based on using brightkite and other service while not having to publish my location to flickr and other.

[Untitled] Crisis Christmas « dale lane: This is a big deal - when I used to work at the homeless shelter in Bath, I knew some of our clients who would travel to London at Christmas for Crisis. It was that unique an opportunity.

[Untitled] Web Application Security by Mario Heiderich | Oliver Thylmann's ...: And if somebody knows what web site security is about, then Mario is the man. So much so that he can get on your nerves some times and I say that as the higest form of flattery ;).

[Untitled] This Weeks Tweets | Web Strategy Micksup: RT @pubzak: Moo Shake! breaks US app store #10 for kids games! Currently #7. woohoo!

[Untitled] Discover Social Media » Blog Archive » FileRide: And the FileRide is currently integrated with Twitter, so that files can be shared through micro-blog postings. Home Page: FileRide.com.

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