"As people share more, their expectations are evolving from archiving services to personalized services that adapt to them, and even anticipatory services that nudge them in positive ways. This has resulted in services that capture people's history, filter their information, and turn it into tailored recommendations, options, alerts, and connections."
"Are guidebooks facing extinction?
Twitter tips, up-to-the minute websites and customised apps bursting with locals' advice are all changing the way we travel. But does it mean the end of the guidebooks?"
Do you track your running, cycling, steps, weight, or calories? What's your favorite tool? This week's roundup is focused on fitness.
A list of links to different tracking apps...
"Serendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else. The app combines directions generated by a routing service (in this case, the Google Maps API) with instructions for action and movement inspired by Fluxus, Vito Acconci, and Yoko Ono, among others. Enter an origin and a destination, and the app maps a route between the two. You can increase or decrease the complexity of this route, depending how much time you have to play with. As you navigate your route, suggestions for possible actions to take at a given location appear within step-by-step directions designed to introduce small slippages and minor displacements within an otherwise optimized and efficient route. You can take photos along the way and, upon reaching your destination, send an email sharing with friends your route and the steps you took."
Planning and aggregation of different services to support travelling. Can read plans from TripIt, but it's mobile and has more "less evident" utilities.
promotes the publicity of the tourist image through information services and tourist assistance, tourist marketing initiatives, specific projects enhancing the tourist offer of the destination and the environmental, cultural and historic heritage.