I finally gave up on Plazes — after two years, after they totally broke it (by, in one majestic batshit swoop, redesigning the site and discontinuing the API and junking up the desktop client), and after everybody else in the local nova mob stopped using it.
But: there’s some slightly unknown collective action that Plazes didn’t enable — and neither yet has anything else. All those little timeslices of Plazes-attention over all those months got me: a sense of space, weird trivia about University buildings, and a few happy excuses to meet a new person in an airport ✈ or cafe ♨.
Here are my notes about Plazes from 26 months ago.
Edward Vielmetti | 05-Nov-07 at 2:25 pm | Permalink
I gave up when my location stopped being a bit of background noise and started going into the foreground of conversations. This was exacerbated by Plazer bugs that put me at the wrong place.
I miss the capture-the-flag aspects of it, the feedback you got when you were first to locate a place.
Keeping it on my machine for my next trip to Berlin.