Nokia - Going Plazes
Nokia just announced the agreed acquirement of Plazes, a location based, social status sharing website. This looks like a move to integrate location based social status updates for Nokia’s GPS enabled Symbian handsets.
Members of Plazes are able to update their location through their laptop or mobile phone, and update their online presence with their current, past and future whereabouts. That way Plazes provides location-based context and real-life value when coordinating with friends, family and business partners.
With Google acquiring Jaiku a few months back, it seems Nokia is also keen to integrate live social updates and presence on their handsets for the consumer. Obviously Social updates are a the hype at the moment, with Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk, and many others flooding the internet.
The questions remain - when will we expect the first handset with this sort of live, location based social updates integrated into handsets? Who will be the first? Google or Nokia? And more importantly, who will succeed?
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