Posts Tagged with ‘Plazes’

Though I like the fact that Nokia took steps to acquire its own social platform called Plazes, I'm not a huge fan of companies trying to keep up with the Joneses. Those Joneses, in this case, would be Apple, which recently announced that a similar stalker-friendly tool called Loopt will be available for the iPhone at the debut of the Apps store.
The reason I call Loopt and Plazes tools for those with stalker tendencies is because both [...]

Every conference has an application that is poised to break out. Web 2.0 Expo may already have its "It App" in Fireball. Quickly making the rounds of the Twitter back channel, Fireball is an app that combines the location-based functionality of Twitter with the location-based features of Yahoo's Fire Eagle to let you keep track of all your Twitter friends.
Fireball has soft-launched here at Web 2.0 Expo for conference attendees, and currently works only in San Francisco. Once you sign [...]

Sometimes I'm a little slow at catching on with new things. It took an interesting new look to Ross Mayfield's blog to get me to notice Dandelife, but I may have gotten hooked on this whole lifecasting thing. I was fortunate enough to spend some time IMing with Dandelife CEO Kelly Abbott about his vision for Dandelife as well as getting a bit of a newcomer's walk-through.
Dandelife started out as a blogging platform, but it's obviously a different application than [...]

With the explosive growth of user-generated content in Web 2.0, one of the results is that more and more personal information can be found online. As Kathy Sierra and others have discovered, the line between online presence and personal life is getting thinner all the time.
MySpace has tried to walk the line between user privacy concerns and compliance with law enforcement agencies this year, and it can only be assumed that if other social networking sites haven't already been contacted [...]