Dailyplaces ups the social – adds realtime chat to locations
by Steve O'Hear
on April 13, 2011

Dailyplaces, the social recommendation service for places, has upped the social today by adding realtime chat to its iPhone and Android apps.

Dubbed ‘Places Chat’, users can communicate directly and in realtime with other users that are checked-in at the same location. Additionally, it’s possible to chat with other users that aren’t nearby via a user’s friend-list. The idea behind the feature is to enable users to converse with each other around locations so that they can ask about the place, give recommendations or even book appointments, says the Frankfurt-based startup.

Having originally launched as a location-based microblogging platform in December 2009 and then pivoting recently to focus on recommendations and adding gaming metrics, the new Places Chat feature sort of brings them full circle. Social is very much the order of the day, although to be fair Dailyplace’s emphasis on a user’s social graph as a way to add trust to reviews of locations was already a lot more social than a typical yellow pages type site. Places Chat pushes the realtime nature of the service a lot harder too.

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  • Murk

    Exactly, Why not just ask the people there? With the internet, social got a whole different meaning.

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    An extension of FOURSQUARE – a little originality please! ( did i say please )

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    @Mekyla, exactly the same thing I’m asking myself….What makes this fundamentally different than foursquare?

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    sounds a lot like Palringo Nearby tbh =/

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  • Misha Ponizil

    This is a big feature and can be very influential if implemented correctly. I’m a student at university and envision using something like this during class. Also think it’d be great in a meetup setting where there are tons of people you don’t know and no way to meet them all. I built a prototype of this service as I imagine it: http://www.thedailydoing.com. I encourage you to check it out and don’t be too quick to assume location based chat is designed to replace genuine socializing.

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  • Stefan

    Hi Reza and Murk – It’s also possible to chat with users at other places. So e.g. you can ask your best friend if its worth to come over to the club or just tell him that you are 10 minutes to late.

  • Stefan

    Hi Mekyla – the difference is that Dailyplaces is focussing on the communication between users. We use the Check-In to give you the opportunity to directly chat with your friends.

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    or you could just text them like normal

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    It is a much better usecase of a check in then a check in by 4sq. It’s a very fast way to start a “digital” conversation. Hey folks….., remember the first days of twitter – had we all seen the genious usecases? I guess not. That’s a real innovation they have made at dailyplaces and I hope they’ll get the right VC’s to make it big and hot.

    Thumbs up to the Team.

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