Trading Plazes
Crass English stereotypes mean the words “German” and “social” rarely appear in the same sentence, but now, for a limited time only, they will: Nokia has bought German social-network Plazes.
Like most social-networks, the site seems to offer little in the way of originality, except better map integration and comedy speech bubbles. The demo cartoon features a needy moppet named Mario who whines at a girl who organises a group of friends to join him at a bar to legitimise his attempts to drown his pain with alcohol. From the looks of it, Mario and the other moppet-girl would have had more fun without a huge crowd of people, but, who am I to judge the drawn out romantic exploits of two-dimensional characters. And maybe more people would have shown up if she’d just started a Facebook Event.
Tags: Nokia
