Olof Werngren Breaks Up With Plazes

A sad day, when an old relationship with an inconstant application — in this case Plazes — comes to the break-up point:

[from Plazes Broke My Heart]

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Also I know I’m worth something better and I don’t see a future with kids, dog, volvo and stuff together with Plazes. That’d just be sick.

Thanks for our time together, it’s not all bad memories. I’ll be collecting my stuff and removing the widgets from the blogs and staff pages now. Have a great life. Please don’t call me until you’ve sorted out your personal issues.

Also includes a description of where things went bad.

Seriously, Plazes redesign is a mess, They need to get back to basic stuff.

I know that there were way too many maps in the N-1 version, but now there are none! Isn’t have a map the point?

Yes, it was time to move past the association with Wifi routers, and allow folks to state where they are. But too much of what worked in the original is gone.

The direction that needs the most work — I think — is the social interactions of people around place. More of that, please. It’s not enough to try to become Twitter, with a stream of updates. We have that already! We need something else, something at the interface between place and identity.

Call me guys, I would be happy to work with you on it.