Marking Your Territory: Plazes lets you leave electronic bread crumbs for friends - Kate Greene, Technology Review

People and plazes: A Swiss startup called Plazes lets users easily update and share their location information via a website, computer software, or text messages. Looking for your friend? If the people in your social circle use Plazes, a Swiss location-tracking startup, they may not be too hard to find. Plazes is an online community where people post and update their location via the Internet or text messaging on cell phones. The company has been around since 2004, but in the past month, it has revamped its product, making it simpler to use and letting people upload pictures of different locales and add reviews.

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