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| Mar 1, 2010 | Door closes on social mapping startup Platial | Updated. Platial, a social mapping startup, has decided to call it quits. The company announced its plans to shut down in a blog post on Saturday. The site may go offline as soon as Tuesday. The Portland, Ore.-based company’s product allowe... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Seven Tools to Map Your Company or Life History | If you’ve ever had the urge to write your name in wet cement, then you understand what it’s like to want to leave your mark on the places that define you. Rather than vandalizing construction sites or tagging your old high school, one posit... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Handshakes vs. Noise: The Value of Real-Time Location-Based Data | Similar to the real-time stream itself, ReadWriteWeb’s Real-Time Web Summit dares to tackle a collective stream of consciousness. As the official live bloggers, the ReadWriteWeb team is aggregating some of today’s highlights. One of the gre... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | Love it or Hate It: Penguin’s Putting Books on Twitter and Google Maps | British book publishing giant Penguin is carrying out an experiment that takes six books from six different authors and distributes them through new media channels over six weeks. Called We Tell Stories , some people say the campaign is pur... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Social Map Roll-up: Will Platial + Frappr Be Strong Enough to Survive? | Portland social mapping startup Platial has acquired old-school favorite Frapper, another social mapping service, it was announced today. If the announcement had been made yesterday it would have warranted inclusion in Om Malik’s post Start... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Social Mapping: Game Not Over Yet | As Google expands their social mapping features, competitors are regrouping and refocusing. Kleiner Perkins backed Platial, headquartered in Portland, is announcing the acquisition of chief competitor Frappr this morning. Frappr co-founder ... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | VCs love Obama, mapping merger, Gravatar, China rage, more | Here’s the latest action: 1) VCs love on Obama 2) Frappr-Platial merge to take on Google 3) Is China is blocking US search engines? Or is it just U.S. jingoism? 4) WordPress buys avatar company 5) Internet giants agree on copyright protecti... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | GlobalMotion, a wiki for real places | GlobalMotion is showing up rather late to the party to create a wiki company for real-world places. You can think of the Palo Alto, Calif. company as a sort of Wikipedia for places, but driven by users uploading photos that are geotagged, w... |
| May 14, 2007 | Instant messaging: feature or product? | Web-based instant messaging services, such as Meebo and eBuddy have had high growth rates over many months. They’ve raked in a lot of funding from hungry VCs. But we see IM becoming a commodity. So far, these non-aligned startups have offer... |
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