Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Plazes is cool
That's it, I'm getting in on the ground floor on this one. Plazes is a really cool website that adds location awareness to your online presence.
The best part about it is that it gives you an interactive guide to all the open wireless networks in your town. Just for that it's a great site to keep around. The way it works is that if you are signed in to it and you find an open WiFi network, Plazes will let you give a little description of it, add a Flickr photo associated with the location and leave your name as the person who 'discovered' it. You get points for discovering more locations, which is the motivator for people to go find new networks.
The other part of it is that you can see who is online and where on the various local public networks. So if I wanted to chase down Cyn I could pop onto Plazes and see if she's at Timothy's coffee shop or the Queen St. Commons or if she's gone home already.
If you discover a location and just type in the street address it will put in the geographical location on a map, including teh lattitude and longitude that it calculates automatically.
Here is part of its list of available WiFi spots in Charlottetown: Link.
Update: Peter Rukavina has been going nuts with this stuff and has made a google map of all the locations in his Plazes in charlottetown. Link.Technorati Tags: Plazes, WiFi, Charlottetown
RESULTS
plaze country discovered online 66 Rochford St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 
100 Prince Street CA/Charlot... 2005/06/15 0 35 Gerald St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 35 Gerald St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 531 C University Ave CA/Charlot... 2005/06/14 0 73 Walthen Dr. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 84 Fitzroy St & Queen St Commons CA/Charlot... 2005/06/16 1 Atlantic Technology Centre CA/Charlot... 2005/06/28 1 Atlantic Technology Centre CA/Charlot... 2005/06/16 0 Beanz / Downtown Diner CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Cafe Diem CA/Charlot... 2005/06/29 0 CBC Charlottetown CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Cedar's Eatery CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Confederation Centre of the Arts CA/Charlot... 2005/06/16 0 Cyn's house CA/Stratford 2005/06/22 0 Dan and Becky's Home CA/Charlot... 2005/06/12 0 Formosa Tea House CA/Charlot... 2005/06/16 0 Gerald St. at Upper Prince St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Harborside near Delta Hotel CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Haviland St. at King St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Hillsborough St. at Water St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Inns on Great George CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 King St. at Pownal St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 MarinaGrill CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Prince St. at Syndey St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Quality Inn CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Queen St. at Grafton St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Reinvented Office CA/Charlot... 2004/09/26 1 Richmond St. near Weymouth St. CA/Charlot... 2005/06/21 0 Rob's Home CA/Charlot... 2005/06/23 0 pages: 1 2
