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Mileposts on the geo Web Plazes and Praized

[wushenyuan.net] 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).

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August 07, 2010

Mileposts on the geo Web Plazes and Praized

[wushenyuan.net] 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).

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August 07, 2010

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[paygham.net] 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).

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[paygham.net] 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).

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July 01, 2010

Plazes Profile

[TechCrunch] In their own words, “Plazes is the first global location-aware interaction and geo-information system, connecting you with the people and Plazes in your area and all over the world. It is the navigation system for your social life and it’s absolutely free.”

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Plazes Profile

[TechCrunch] In their own words, “Plazes is the first global location-aware interaction and geo-information system, connecting you with the people and Plazes in your area and all over the world. It is the navigation system for your social life and it’s absolutely free.”

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April 29, 2010

Plazes Acquired by Nokia - Ross Mayfield's Weblog

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog] The Plazes team takes pride in being one of the first services inthe location-context arena. When we started in 2005 the potential ofthat space might have been obvious but it was an uphill battlenevertheless with so many concepts gone sour before. 

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Plazes Acquired by Nokia - Ross Mayfield's Weblog

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog] The Plazes team takes pride in being one of the first services inthe location-context arena. When we started in 2005 the potential ofthat space might have been obvious but it was an uphill battlenevertheless with so many concepts gone sour before. 

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Nokia buys Plazes Location Based Social Network

[Fone Arena - The Mobile Blog] “This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy” says

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Nokia buys Plazes Location Based Social Network

[Fone Arena - The Mobile Blog] “This acquisition helps Nokia to accelerate its vision of bringing people and places closer together, in line with our broader services strategy” says

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April 08, 2010

Plazes - Right Plaze, Right Time

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Plazes - Right Plaze, Right Time

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March 23, 2010

Plazes CEO Busted By His Own Product

[TechCrunch] Very clearly Plazes is an innovative site, which I am guessing is why Mr Petersen was invited to speak at Next Web in the first place, and possibly why he didn’t feel pressured to show up at all costs.

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Posted at 03:32 PM

Plazes CEO Busted By His Own Product

[TechCrunch] Very clearly Plazes is an innovative site, which I am guessing is why Mr Petersen was invited to speak at Next Web in the first place, and possibly why he didn’t feel pressured to show up at all costs.

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March 13, 2010

European Startup Plazes Raises €2.7 million

[TechCrunch] I know of several VC-funded start-ups that have been better funded than Plazes but have gone tits-up after a couple of years.

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Posted at 04:03 PM

European Startup Plazes Raises €2.7 million

[TechCrunch] I know of several VC-funded start-ups that have been better funded than Plazes but have gone tits-up after a couple of years.

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Plazes Regroups, Learns From Twitter

[TechCrunch] As good as Plazes was, the friction from requiring users to download software and use it whenever they changed location created friction and slowed user growth. Taking pointers from the simplicity of Twitter, Plazes is changing the way it handles location, and is also adding time and activity dimensions to the product.

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Plazes Regroups, Learns From Twitter

[TechCrunch] As good as Plazes was, the friction from requiring users to download software and use it whenever they changed location created friction and slowed user growth. Taking pointers from the simplicity of Twitter, Plazes is changing the way it handles location, and is also adding time and activity dimensions to the product.

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March 04, 2010

Exclusive Look at Plazes for iPhone

[TechCrunch] The phone detects the user’s location through the iPhone API, then presents the user with a number of suggested descriptions (for example, opening Plazes from our office presented us with choices of “TechCrunch HQ” and “The Mansion”, both of which were assigned to the coordinates by previous visitors).

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Posted at 04:03 PM

Exclusive Look at Plazes for iPhone

[TechCrunch] The phone detects the user’s location through the iPhone API, then presents the user with a number of suggested descriptions (for example, opening Plazes from our office presented us with choices of “TechCrunch HQ” and “The Mansion”, both of which were assigned to the coordinates by previous visitors).

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Breaking: Germany's Plazes Acquired By Nokia

[TechCrunch] Put together the Ad system they have, and they control a strong section of the mobile ecosystem from ad generation, delivery through branded channels, with good profile information about the user, especially since most new handsets from Nokia now have GPS built in.

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January 14, 2010

Plazes Survey Results | novemberborn.net

[Novemberborn] In short, Plazes is a web service which tracks the location of their users via software applications those users run on their machines, a mobile phone application and SMS “check-ins”. A location is called a Plaze, a location history a Traze.

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