joaoflux / digital / analog / culture

I guess a good business model must also make scumbags of all sorts potential users if not paying clients. In that way I thought that Plazes was a problematic product from the very beginning. If you have things to hide, Plazes is not for you.

For the compamy’s founder, Felix Petersen, the incentives of letting the whole planet permanently know where he was, must have seemed to outweigh the loss of privacy more than for ordinary users of his application (mostly nerds like myself, who play with any digital toy). It looks like he was mistaken. Almost as strange as the fact that he thought he would get away with being in Copenhagen at Reboot while telling Next Web he was in Berlin with his sick daughter is the fact that they apparently never thought about implementing features that would give users more control over who can see their whereabouts.

This is the second time within a few weeks that a Berlin startups make fools of themselves. It seems like the bubble 2.0 guys are desperately competing with the bubble 1.0 guys about being the biggest clowns. Getting to play with VC does not seem to do good to everybody.