What the new Plazes has to offer
•Plazesvision, a Google Maps mashup that show new updates from users
•Updated maps view. Locations are grouped together and by zooming in they show up as own Plazes
•Webupdater, no need to use the Plazer software or short messages to update your location
•“What are you up to?”, a Twitter like one-liner about the things your are doing
•Future Plazes, inform your friends where you are going and what you are doing there
•Groups for grouping members and locations
•of Plazes shows you again a map, but this time interactive and with a live view of users and where they are right now. This page is not (yet?) personalized. You don’t see the locations of your friends or a list of your own places.
More interesting is the dashboard part. You can choose between viewing what your contacts are doing and what the Plazes world is doing. This is exactly that kind of service people are using today. Everybody wants to know what others are doing. There even is a RSS export for you favorite reader.
Your Plazes are now in one huge list (well, for me the list is very, very long and I haven’t found any browsing option…). And here you will find the next big feature and change of Plazes. You can add, where you will be in the future. Lets say you are going to an Event/Party/BarCamp/Webtuesday you can tell Plazes “I will go to on and will do ”. This is cool. But the question will be, if everybody is going to update this. Maybe it would be great to someday enter this data into one service and it gets updated on all pages. Or do you want manually to update Dopplr, Plazes, Upcoming?
What´s new? Make sure you catch some of the new goodness. We´re talking creating Plazes as you wish without the Plazer, telling others where you WILL be, creating groups of People and Plazes and some other new things we´re really excited about.