The Plazes.net website and API service are ceasing operation as of August 15, 2008

With the acquisition of Plazes by Nokia now complete the Plazes development team is concentrating its resources building something new within Nokia, and it's very likely that the structure of the Plazes API will change significantly.

As such, the Plazes.net website and the Plazes.net API will cease operation on August 15, 2008.

The Plazes.com site, and the Plazes.com API, will remain in operation for the time-being.

Introduction

The Flickr documentation for machine tag format, aka "triple tags," a mechanism for enhanced tagging designed primarily for machine-readable applications.

Machine tags can be used with Plazes in two ways:

1. To tag Plazes themselves so as to enhance the meta-data available about the Plaze. For example, a Plaze can be tagged tel:office=+19028922556 to add its telephone number.

2. To tag objects from ''elsewhere'' so as to connect them with a Plaze, a Plazes user or a Plazes presence. For example, a Flickr photo can be tagged plazes:id=87873 to indicate that it's a photo of a Plaze with id of 87873.

Tagging Plazes

• TaggingInternet
• TaggingTelephone

Photographs

• TaggingFlickr
• Tagging23

Tagging Other Objects

• TaggingPlazes
• TaggingUsers
• TaggingPresences