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Seems the new plazes for bloggers arrived just in time.. from the first looks there seems to be some nice new functionallity in there.. mainly the ability to add future places into plazes, ala Dopplr, and the ability to trusted and non trusted contacts..

you can also put why you are, or will be at a location. there’s is also the concept of groups meaning that you can see and collect plazes into particular areas, for instance theres a group for Reboot 9, ..best of amsterdam(!) and geek gatherings. As there’s isnt a plazer yet for mac or windows to place you into the sneek preview, I dont know how plazes can be added to groups yet from SMS or the Plazer.

This release of plazes seems to be pretty good, it’s certainly more like what I thought Dopplr was going to be.. As well as the current and future logging of plazes, you can log past plazes as well..

Looking at your plazes allows you to pick a plaze, and decide if you’re here now, or plan to be or was there as well as adding to groups, or recommending to other plazes users (and for IBM’ers there is a IBM’ers group I set up!)

Plazes also seems to have mashed up a Twitter type interface in there as well from the looks of Fiahless’s profile… This looks like a really funky release, and once the extra missing bits (plazer, sms, sharing location on a flash map again) this will be a seriously nice bit of Web 2.0.. I guess the next few days will show..

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