10 Facts About Plazes

1.

Plazes allowed users to post their location and current activities and share this information with other Plazes users via computers or mobile telephones.

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2.

Plazes was integrated to Nokia Maps which itself was integrated to HERE Maps.

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3.

Plazes AG introduced the beta version of the Plazes service on 16 August 2004.

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4.

In January 2005, Plazes introduced a Movable Type plugin that allowed users to automatically include or add their location to blog postings.

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5.

In June 2005, Plazes created an API that allowed users to access photos from their Flickr accounts and to add those photos to their Plazes accounts.

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6.

Plazes users are able to publish their Plazes location on Fire Eagle, Twitter, Google Maps, MySpace and on the user's blog.

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7.

Plazes allows users to create groups or to join an existing group of Plazes users.

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8.

Plazes has a radar function that allows users to discover other Plazes users that are located near the user's current location.

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9.

The Plazes Radar generates a list of the locations close to the user's current location and lists the number of Plazes users that have previously stated they were at that location.

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10.

On 4 May 2012 the Plazes team sent an email message for their users informing that on the next week will go out of service.

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