New Plazes beta
March 27 2006
I've been beta testing a new version of
the Plazes
launcher (now called "Plazer"). The Plazes team granted
permission to blog about the beta over the weekend, so here we are.
I have been a fan of Plazes since discovering
it six months ago. With
the diversity and quantity of my travel, it's been a great way for coworkers,
customers, even family to track where I am at any given time. And
its concept of "place-based awareness" is very much in sync with
work going on for Lotus
Sametime 7.5 -- where my location
is now advertised along with my status, thus allowing co-workers to know
where I am as well as my avaiilability.
The new Plazer streamlines plaze management in a lot of ways. It provides a local UI, rather than a web page, to manage my status.
What's more interesting about the new Plazes is that it is becoming a more effective tool for finding other people. Like Meetro, Plazes now gives the user proximity tools -- who is nearby and where are they. When I was in Europe two weeks ago, I noticed this a lot -- people right nearby when I was at my hotel in Stockholm, for example.
If you are interested in using plazes, please let me know and I'll invite you. Sure, you could just go to the plazes homepage and sign up, but sending invites increases one's "karma points" score.
I can see this concept reaching critical mass and leading to impromptu geekdinners/meetups. Location-based awareness is becoming more and more useful for real-time business.
(Note: Comment count busticated on this post, no idea why.)
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Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 3/27/2006 1:38:02 PM
done...thanks Ron
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Gareth (Guff) http://blog.lincolnburnett.com/blogs/ghowell.nsf | 3/27/2006 1:48:14 PM
Sorry, Ed, I saw the badge on your site this morning and signed up.
Guff
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Jerry Glover http://www.jerryglover.com | 3/27/2006 2:13:51 PM
I'll help you out Ed, drop me an invite. I agree, there are some interesting possibilites for location-based services in the not-too-distant future.
How much different are our daily lives now, than they were 10 yrs ago? How much more different will they be 10 years from now? It boggles the mind.
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Bill Brown | 3/27/2006 3:33:26 PM
I rarely travel either, and when I do, connection is usually dialup back to the office.... I'd probably be in an ocean from house in the Outer Banks, and Plazer would show me in Western New York.
Will Place Awareness make it into Sametime 8?
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Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com | 3/27/2006 3:42:11 PM
I upgraded to the .Net the other day, now I have to upgrade yet again and invite some people :p
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Simon Barratt http://apps.fmc.com/blog.nsf | 3/27/2006 4:10:37 PM
Thanks for the update Ed. I had not checked for a new client version in a while. This new version is a great improvement.
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Simon Barratt http://apps.fmc.com/blog.nsf | 3/27/2006 4:10:58 PM
ps. comment count looks fine to me!
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Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 3/27/2006 4:14:05 PM
@8 I fixed the comment count ... had a draft entry with exactly the same name. Deleted that and now it works
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Major Sanders | 3/27/2006 11:57:23 PM
(a) why not integrate this into Sametime 7.5 as an option. if anyone could influence the product, I would think you could?
* or add an internal only version... let me classify my internal routers... figure out easily what floor someone is working from... what building, wtc.
(b) how about plazes on a blackberry? reading cell tower locations, that scary... but kind of cool.
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Pedro Quaresma | 3/28/2006 6:36:13 AM
Ed, can you please send me an invite? Thanks!
@10 Integration with Sametime definitely sounds interesting
Pedro
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Jan Willem van Markus www.vanmarkus.nl | 3/28/2006 9:36:51 AM
To bad it's still not working from behind a firewall.
I'm all day behind a firewall so nobody knows where I am.....
:-(
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Christian Brandlehner http://chris.brandlehner.at | 4/4/2007 12:13:17 PM
@10: There is an Implementation for Sametime 7.5.
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Ed,
While I don't travel much, so everyone pretty much knows where I am ... feel free to invite me. I'd like to think I could help you out with your 'karma points'.