Platial was named a Webby Honoree, at first I thought we were up to win it and a nominee, but in fact, we are only among the honorees, so you can't vote for us. It's still to fun to vote, though! Go have a look and cast your ballots.
Thanks so much to the AO100 editorial team- this is a great honor.
From their release ...
Platial Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO100 Top Private Company Award Winner
Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology and Global Business Potential Portland, OR based Platial Inc, community platform that enables anyone to map anything has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO 100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The fifth-annual elite AO100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the AO100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 1,000 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts. Platial and the AO 100 Top Private Companies for 2007 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31 – Aug 2, May 1-3, 2007, at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry. A full list of all the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/15899
And of course the biggest thanks go to our users, the most interesting group of people I have ever encountered.
We're really grateful for last week's UK press. Right now 5% of Platial users are in the UK and we're excited to get lots of recommendations for our London trip this Spring!
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Platial had a chance to contribute to a great program by Peter Day along with Paul Sterne, chief financial officer of Open-Xchange and general manager Americas. Peter Yared, chief executive, ActiveGrid John Newton, chairman, Alfresco John Powell, chief executive, Alfresco Scott Dietzen, chief executive, Zimbra Paul Radamacher, Google Paul Saffo, writer and technology forecaster Paul Saffo's web site
WebUser Magazine gives Platial top billing for 25 must-visit sites for 2007. Wow, Thanks.
And on a completely unrelated note: Is anyone here from Surrey? I'm looking for lost luggage circa 1994 and an old friend.
BBC Radio 4 ran a story the other day about open source software development and "mash ups". The show is called New Wave Computing. They interviewed Paul Sterne of Open-Xchange, Peter Yared from ActiveGrid, John Newton and John Powell from Alfresco, Scott Dietzen from Zimbra, Paul Radamacher from Google, technology writer Paul Saffo, and Platial's own Di-Ann Eisnor.
You could probably guess that a lot of us Platialites are big fans of MAKE magazine and its accompanying blog. (Thanks to a water rocket recipe from Make, my son enjoyed the feeling of being the coolest kid in town one Saturday afternoon.)
We were all very excited, shortly after we launched MapKit, to see someone (Pauric O'Callaghan to be exact) come on and start a few maps for Make. The maps were officially launched on their site yesterday in a blog post and they're linked to now from the top of Make's Community page.
If you like the tabs, you can get the how-to for doing it yourself from the instructable Pauric wrote. I'm listed as a collaborator, but I really only proofread it. There is a Platial Group on Instructables, so if you have a Platial hack, you can share it there.
There is also a map of all of the places you can go to buy a copy of Make Magazine on Platial. There are almost 2,000 Places on the map. Just center on your town and zoom in with the tools on the side of the map to find the newsstand nearest you.
The local daily around these parts, the Oregonian, ran a piece on Platial today. The angle is quite nice, it's very much about the users, and specifically about dougiedoodle's "Dump Spots", a map of failed romantic encounters, rejections, and breakups. Romance is turning out to be pretty popular with the press, maybe part of Platial's appeal, or that of citizen media in general is a presumed lightness of heart (maybe to soften the potential threats that the professional media might be feeling with the continued upswing in citizen media in general?) Whatever the reason, romance and failed romance alike are hot hot hot. Dougiedoodle's map now even has a feminine counterpart: kristen410's "Dump Map".
This Indonesian Mexican wrestling nurse was part of the warm welcome we had at the Oregonian studios:
Thanks for stopping by, we are having a bit of a bottleneck at the front door however. If you find the site to be terribly slow, your best bet will be to bookmark it and come back a little later. I guess this could be considered 'proof of beta'.
After a double whammy of traffic sources this morning, we are dealing with some internal code that should solve the issue once and for all.
The hits are coming from Daily Candy and USA Today's Pop Candy blog.
Elizabeth Blair asks Jason and Di-Ann, Sylviakulack, Jeff Jarvis and more about skateboarding, memories and ruins on maps.
Update:Kai and scootdown posted the direct link to the media file (real and windows media versions). Thanks.
Greetings to all the Wired readers,
Thanks for the traffic, we appreciate it! However, our little robots are trying to cram you through a small pipe.
You may get a couple of errors when browsing the site, we're zealously working on the problem at this moment. Next week, we will be moving to our new servers, which will help with some of these issues.
We appreciate your patience, and thanks for checking out Platial.
--jake
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