Plazes, a kinda-cool, formerly networked-based geolocation tool has just been revamped. They’ve been promoting this change for over a month (I got a cool invite to the launch party, but couldn’t make the flight to Germany), and they’re continuing the push now that it’s live. I’ve used the new service for a few days, the [...]

Posted June 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: customer relations, geolocation, plazes, product feedback. 2 Comments.

Ryan tried to tell me about it a month ago, Jessamyn gets the idea but uses Facebook instead, DeWitt fell for it, Ross said it tipped the tuna, and now I’m finally checking Twitter out. I signed up yesterday and immediately went looking for ways to connect Twitter, Plazes, and iChat.
Tweet is an AppleScript that [...]

Posted March 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: chat, chat status, communication, community, plazes, twazer, tweet, twitter, Twitterrific. 2 Comments.

Wearing the badge “still beta,” Plazes, the free, network-based geolocation service, now sports a new coat of paint. Among the improvements is the Flash-based badge (above) and a much improved frontpage/dashboard that combines the map of known locations with the map of active users, formerly two separate screens.
On the downside, I sort of miss the [...]

Posted July 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, geolocation, gis, location aware, mapping, plazes, still beta. One Comment.