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CEO Caught Fibbing by His Own Site

by Tim Stevens on June 4, 2007 at 12:32 PM

These days it's easy to make sure that your friends and casual acquaintances know exactly where you are, what you're doing, and when you're doing it. Services like Twitter and Plazes are designed for just that purpose, but if you're going to use them you'd better watch what you say you're doing. Plazes CEO Felix Peterson has found himself in a somewhat sticky situation thanks to his site, which lets you not only post minute-by-minute updates of what you're doing but also indicate on a map exactly where you're doing it. The problem is, he was found on his site to be in one place when he said he'd be in another.

Felix was supposed to be attending The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam this past weekend, but just before said he couldn't make it due to problems at the Plazes site and because his daughter was sick. Some were rather surprised, then, to find that his Plazes account showed he was instead attending competing conference Reboot 9.0 in Copenhagen. For his part, Felix says that he canceled on the first conference for valid reasons. When his daughter got better, he decided he could attend the second conference. Little white lie caught or big misunderstanding? We think it's more the latter than the former, but it's a good reminder to watch what you say you're doing on Twitter and Plazes.

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