Disclaimer: This is a rant. You may want to skip it.
A lot is being written about the new Plazes. They have gone from beta into public. In that they have taken a solid, robust and good application and destroyed it. First, they stopped the existing API from working. The Plazer (the client application which automatically saves your current location to the server) stopped working for a few days.
Then the single most useful feature is gone from the Plazer. So far there was a list of friends currently online. And for every contact I saw where he is. That’s all I ever wanted from Plazes. It now adds some more stuff like groups and twitter-style-what-am-i-doing-messages. But it does not offer the existing feature anymore.
I’m going to be patient for a few days. But if that doesn’t get fixed, I’m probably out of there. And apparently a lot of my friends think the same.
Plazes was destroyed by venture captial it seems.
Update: And the “Remember me” checkbox of Plazes doesn’t work.
Update: And the Mac Plazes client crashes every now and then.