Platial

Platial

Infobox Dotcom company
company_name = Platial, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
genre =
foundation = 2004
founder = Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, Jason Wilson
location_city = Portland, Oregon
location_country = U.S.
location =
locations =
area_served = Worldwide
key_people = Di-Ann Eisnor, cofounder and CEO
Jake Olsen, cofounder and CTO
Jason Wilson, cofounder and VP of Product
industry = Software
products = Mapmaker, Mapkit, Slider
services =
revenue = Contextual Advertising
operating_income =
net_income =
owner =
num_employees =
parent =
divisions =
subsid =
company_slogan = the people's atlas
url = [http://www.platial.com www.platial.com]


caption =
alexa = [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/platial.com 166,472] (Retrieved on 2008-02-18)
website_type = Social Computing
language = English
advertising =
registration = Optional
launch_date = 2004
current_status = Active
footnotes =
intl =

Platial is a collaborative, user generated, cartographic website. It was founded in 2004 by Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, and Jason Wilson. Platial, Inc. is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Platial is used by hundreds of thousands of people [cite web |url=http://platial.com/about |title=About - Platial.com |accessdate=2008-02-18 |format=HTML |work= |publisher=Platial, Inc ] globally to share and associate relevant content with geographic places of interest. Platial claims 25% of the web's map widgets,cite web |url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/18/social-mapping-game-not-over-yet/ |title=Social Mapping: Game Not Over Yet |accessdate=2008-02-18 |author=Michael Arrington |date=2007-10-18 |work=TechCrunch] used on over 10,000 sites. [cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2007/03/19/story1.html |title=Platial map quest |accessdate=2008-02-18 |author=Aliza Earnshaw |date=2007-03-16 |work=Portland Business Journal |publisher=Bizjournals]

On October 18, 2007, Platial acquired Frappr!, another social mapping website, increasing its total user-generated locations to more than 100 million.

References

External links

* [http://www.platial.com Platial]
* [http://www.zeemaps.com ZeeMaps] provide a similar service.
* [http://platial.typepad.com/ Official Platial weblog]


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