Nokia buys Plum in latest crack at social media
Revolution
In 2008, the company acquired Berlin-based Plazes, the location-based social network. Plazes lets friends update each other about what they are doing when and where, resulting in a Twitter-like activity stream but with integrated geo-taggin...
Find your friends with these services
CNET News
Plazes Plazes reminds me of Twitter with a location-based element. Once you sign up for the site, you'll be asked to input where you are (a city or specific location is fine). If the service can't find that location, you can add it to the d...
Google Locates Mobile Latitude
Red Herring
The Espoo, Finland, based company completed its $8.1 billion acquisition of mapping firm Navteq last year and also acquired LBS provider Plazes. (Nokia to Acquire Plazes for Location Services) In December, Vodafone, the world’s largest mobi...
Facebook Will Take Another Step Into The Location Game Tomorrow With ...
TechCrunch
The app looks to be a direct result of the Nokia purchase of the location-based social network Plazes, in the summer of 2008. As you can see in the screenshot below, an Ovi Map (Nokia’s map property) will reside inside of Facebook and show ...
Dopplr: Why is Nokia continuing to buy small companies for their ...
All About Symbian
Dopplr (which allows users to say where they are travelling and see who lives there or is visiting at the same time, allowing for more serendipitous connections to be made) joins services such as Plum and Plazes in Nokia's store chest. Why?...
Weekly Digest Issue No. 435
ElectricNews.net
Over the past year Nokia has been quite acquisitive; it purchased Plazes and Twango during the year to reinforce its multimedia and social networking offerings, respectively. Meanwhile, its USD8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq, which was re...
Where Are You? Show ‘Em With Google Latitude
New York Times Blogs
Isn’t this what plazes did like four yeas ago? It’s so funny that when it’s google, it’s a hit. In any case, yeah, it’s a great service, but it’s true that this app can’t run in the background on an iphone, big loss to usability right ...
Ovi Maps adds Good Things (user generated PoIs)
All About Symbian
Plazes is/was a social context sharing tool that combines a mixture of social network, geotagging and location sharing functionality to enable people to track and find people, places and activities in their day to day life. It's not hard to...
Google Latitude Lets You Share Your Location With the Masses
Mashable.com
Other applications – like BrightKite Brightkite and Plazes – already enable public location sharing, but Latitude has the advantage of already having millions of users through Google Talk that can now use this feature. In other news, while ...
MobileBeat: Mobile success stories
Venturebeat.com
Missing from the list (I don’t know why), are Nokia’s recent acquisition of Plazes, a location technology company, operating system platform, Symbian, this year, and Germany’s Gate5, in 2006. We’ve pasted the entire list of acquisitions bel...
Location buzz continues: Nokia buys Plazes, Verizon backs Loopt & NIM
Venturebeat.com
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, has agreed to acquire the Swiss-German start-up Plazes , the companies said in a statement today . Plazes, based in Berlin, Germany is a service that lets you share your location and leave ...
Ovi by Nokia: the next digital saturation king?
Bigmouthmedia.com
In order for Nokia to have such functionalities, they purchased social media companies Plazes and Loopt. File Sharing Ovi allows users to upload and share photographs, music, files etc and sync them with other devices e.g. your PC. Nokia pu...
