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That small Finnish startup, Nokia, has bought German social networking location-aware site Plazes for an undisclosed amount, Reuters reports. Plazes is, simply put, a service that lets you know where your friends are. The last time we reported on it, it was a story about Plazes' CEO Felix Petersen allegedly being caught somewhere else than he had said he'd be, exposed by none other than Plazes itself.
Cases such as this raise considerations about location-aware social networking. Recently, I've speculated on iPhone 3G's GPS as its most important new feature, and many commenters have argued that users aren't interested in exposing their location because of privacy issues.