As I said in my comments on Seesmic and on the blog post -
Congratulations - and it's great that Plazes is "staying in Europe"
too. As one of the longer-term users I still use Plazes every day and
I think it's fantastic that Nokia has identified it as a valuable
service to invest in.

However - I do hope that the community feel and openness of the APIs
remains. Obviously Nokia has an interest from a mobile perspective,
but I hope that all forms of clients and usages will be allowed to
continue... he said, hoping for his 3G iPhone in a few weeks... :^)

Andy

On 25 Jun 2008, at 11:53, Tilmann Singer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As we're sure you've heard by now, Plazes has been acquired by Nokia.
> More details on the general aspects of the acquisition can be found on
> our blog: http://blog.plazes.com/?p=242
>
> This mail is a quick thank you to you, as a developer, for your
> continuing interest in the Plazes API and Plazes as a platform. Your
> interest contributed significantly to the momentum that made Plazes
> into what it is now.
>
> As you can imagine, a lot of things are still being sorted out, and we
> don't have anything concrete to report yet about future development of
> the Plazes API. However, it's safe to expect Plazes to grow to
> exciting new scales, and, of course, to further improve its use cases
> for mobile handsets.
>
> We will continue to keep you updated on all further developments
> through the Plazes blog and the API mailing list.
>
>
> All the best from Berlin and Copenhagen,
> Tilmann Singer and Peter Rukavina
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

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