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.