“Plazes” Coming to the iPhone in the Form of “iPlazer”

by Jody Mitoma on May 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm

Ahh bugger! Here we go with some more social networking news!..

Plazes is basically a Twitter with geotagging, points of interest, and social networking features.

As TechCrunch explains, “The phone detects the user’s location through the iPhone API, then presents the user with a number of suggested descriptions (for example, opening Plazes from our office presented us with choices of “TechCrunch HQ” and “The Mansion”, both of which were assigned to the coordinates by previous visitors).”

“After choosing a location label, the user is prompted to send “activity” messages to their friends (it’s basically a tweet tagged with location information). These activity messages are compared by the server, and Plazes notifies you if you’re in the same neighborhood as one of your friends. You can get a feel for the app in the screencast below.”

Have a look at a video of iPlazer in action just below (here):