Bust

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. ...