Comments on: Social Mapping: Game Not Over Yet

By: Pankaj K Garg

Pankaj K Garg — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:26:24 +0000

In answer to the last post, we offer a service ZeeMaps (http://www.zeemaps.com) that lets you embed a map widget in MySpace or WordPress through a Flash movie.

By: Platial compra Frappr y el caso de Tagzania Loogic.com Blog Archive

Platial compra Frappr y el caso de Tagzania Loogic.com Blog Archive — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:03:32 +0000

[...] cuentan en Techcrunch Platial había recibido inversiones por encima de los 3 millones de dólares por lo que tenía [...]

By: manfmnantucket

manfmnantucket — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:13:22 +0000

15M uniques per month is nothing if those are all widget views… I always thought Platial was somebody’s hobby site it’s surprising to see they got all this funding. Not to be too critical though… I can see where it might be a good buy for Platial - they definitely need some help with graphics and user experience stuff, and the Frappr map widgets are nicely designed and look slick. A second look at the traffic reveals that it is frappr which has the traffic - well not in the alexa top 10K but at least in the top 100K.

So what’s the plan for monetizing map widgets on myspace?

Has anybody besides Frappr figured out how to put genuine google maps into myspace widgets?

Couldn’t google squish this like a gnat by simply offering a truly embeddable (ie myspace and wordpress) map widget, and then
monetizing it via their ad partnership with myspace?

By: DataPoint

DataPoint — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:00:54 +0000

Something is definitely a tad fishy with the data. Just last month, Eisnor is cited in this article as saying that Platial has 5M uniques per month(still sounds like alot!):
http://www.law.com/jsp/legalte.....9760573411

By: manfmnantucket

manfmnantucket — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:06:29 +0000

Tom you have a good point there - did anyone doublecheck this data??

25% of all mapping data on the web - and platial.com isn’t even in the alexa top 100K?? I mean I know alexa numbers can be fudged but you’d think if they had THAT much traffic they would be in the non-obscure alexa category…

By: Gavin P. Quinn

Gavin P. Quinn — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:06:05 +0000

I still like http://www.grapheety.com better. Faster interface, better looking. Can do comments and ratings. Not so much junk…

By: Rajan Tawate

Rajan Tawate — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:50:34 +0000

Man.. are the names really funny…or is it me..

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:19:46 +0000

http://siteanalytics.compete.c.....?metric=uv shows a lousy 230k uniques/month… how do these companies come up with ‘15M unique users’?

By: John Maloney

John Maloney — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:07:28 +0000

Congrats, Di-Ann - exciting to see Platial grow/expand.

By: Just a friend

Just a friend — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:51:25 +0000

One interesting part of the story that’s left out: I believe Frappr was already acquired once by Slide. Early on in Slide’s history they acquired the Frappr guys maybe for the traffic or maybe for the engineering talent. Either way, supposedly the team never integrated properly and it’s no surprise that they’re not off to Platial.

By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:27:30 +0000

Awesome. Congratulations to Di-Ann and the rest of the team. Go Portland startups!

By: deisnor

deisnor — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:11:41 +0000

Thanks! Just want to note that Kun joins the advisory board. He also has a new exciting thing going on.

By: Lars Teigen

Lars Teigen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:56:09 +0000

There seems to be a small spelling error: leiner should probably be Kleiner in the last paragraph.

By: US Web Hosting

US Web Hosting — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:49:23 +0000

I like the mapping feature in frapper, why it is still in Beta?

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:18:03 +0000

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Agree with me and take a stand.
Tyrants true do not explore;
Things they did not know before.
Hear my voice and heed it mista,
Leave the Mac, go with Vista.

FSB 2007
(selected verses from “Clear Vista”)
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Just trying to see who has culture.