“We are delighted to have the Frappr community join the Platial family. This reinforces our vision to connect people, neighborhoods and nations around the world. Together, we will make social mapping more accessible, more valuable and a more fundamental part of Web 2.0, encompassing mobile and local search. We will also introduce new, more effective advertising models using social data and location to create greater relevance.”
-Di-Ann Eisnor, CEO of Platial

Platial.com is a website where users can build maps of their towns, travels, etc.  Platial is a community site with layers of geographic data in which users set-up pins to mark information about places of interest.  Platial was built with using Google Maps APIs.  Platial receives about 15 million uniques per month and has 100 million informational data pieces created by users.  These data pieces include photos, videos, reviews, stories, etc.

Platial announced today that they have acquired Frappr!  Frappr! is a web site that makes maps more interactive.  Users select what destination they are in, then voluntarily add media to that location.  Frappr! Maps also has widgets that can be embedded on MySpace or other social networking profiles, blogs, etc.  Platial estimates that between their company and Frappr!, they account for 25% of all distributed map widgets. 

Financial details of the acquisition were undisclosed.

Yesterday, First Round Capital has decided to join Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures for investing into Stikkit’s Series A round of funding.  The announcement was published in the Stikkit Values of N blog and was also covered by StartupSquad.  Stikkit is based in Portland, Oregon and the Stikkit team is lead by Rael Dornfest, a former CTO of O’Reilly Media.

Stikkit allows users to save information and transfer it to various other event-tracking applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, iCal, and 30Boxes.  According to StartupSquad, users can also transfer to-do lists, directories, and bookmarks using Stikkit as well.

First Round’s funding was influenced by Rael spending time with First Round managing partner, Josh Kopelman during the early stages of Stikkit development.  Through the funding, First Round partner, Rob Hayes entered the Stikkit Board.  Hayes then influenced Rael and the Stikkit team to share office space with Platial, “The People’s Atlas” technology company.

Personally, I have not tested out Stikkit since I stopped creating to-do lists after graduating college, but I do believe that Stikkit software would be useful for those who are dependent on computers for their daily event-tracking needs.  Below is a screenshot from StartupSquad: