Localley is a tool that broadens the functionality of Facebook Places feature by letting you check in various places using a date and time in the future. Of course it is disappointing when you realize that you and a friend were at the same place (a live show or a movie theatre maybe) but missed a chance of meeting there because you had no idea of each other's presence in this very place. This is the problem solved by Facebook Places: it lets you show your friends where you currently are and also see who is nearby at this very moment.
Localley goes one step further: we eliminate the disappointment that is inevitable when you find out you missed an event you really wanted to attend only because you had no one to go with - and later found out that some friends were at this very event and you could easily join them. Localley lets you share your plans to go somewhere with your friends and even invite them to join you - which will quickly solve a problem of a company.
How it works
In today's modern Internet, search engines have full control over the web, they can make sites be the center of attention or make them disappear altogether in a flash. A web site that is not referenced by Google, Yahoo or MSN is virtually nonexistent to the average user; it is also largely accepted that search engines cover only 20% of the World Wide Web today.
In other words, search engine algorithms dictate which web sites are 'visible' and which web sites don't exist. There is nothing democratic about it, the search engines decide. Either you fit in the system, or you're out of the game. No matter how good your web site is, no matter how good users think your web site is, machines decide if it is a good match for you or not. It could be full of junk for all you know, as long as it follows the rules of page ranking and other criterias set by the algorithms. Like it or not, there is a dictatorship of information, no matter how good the intentions of these companies are, they have control over what you see.
Who can better judge if a web site is a good match for your key words, if it's not you ? Aren't you the one who should judge if a web site is right for you?
User driven
Umibozu attempts to address this problem by providing users the means to vote for web sites that they find interesting or useful, bringing more democracy to the web 2.0. In order to start off the process though, Umibozu brings together all the results of the major search engines in one place, then lets the user refine the results. After all, machines also have the right to vote.
Meta search engine
Say you're looking for the best pizza place in town, you should not take for granted whatever your good friend tells you, it's always best to have several recommendations, no matter how much you trust this friend. Also, your taste and preferences are an important factor in your choice for a good pizza, and should be taken into account when looking for a good place to eat. This is why Um
Places have been created by "Ansamb", which means "together" in French Creole. Founded by a team of PhDs in Computer Science and Cognitive psychology, Places was designed to offer a totally secure and private alternative of the World "Wild" Web.
Save your favourite links online
Wonderpage is an online visual & social bookmarking tool. Create your account and save all your bookmarks in one place. From any place. Anytime.
Export to Google earth
Manage your geospatial data in one place. Put your tracks, places, photos and more on map.Analize and gather statistics, compare, build charts and profiles.Share your data with friends, communities or anybody. Write spatial-enabled reports about your trips.Explore other users data who have already been where you are planning to go.
This site came up to life due to the need for a place where people could actually grasp a sense of history, in relation the different places where they belong to. This is an important human need, and this site seems to be a good option for you to take a look at, if you are looking for such kind of service.
The Summarizer is a fun way to explore the things that connect the real-time web and other online publishers: people, places and things. It searches for tweets in the past seven days either by username or topic and returns a ranked list of the people, places and things mentioned that have matches in Evri's knowledgebase of more than 2 million topics.
foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. We aim to build things to not only help you keep up with the places your friends go, but that encourage you to discover new places and challenge you to explore your neighborhood in new ways.You can use foursquare anywhere in the world! Check-in at the Statue of Liberty in NYC, the Golden Gate bridge in SF, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpu or the Arch de Triumph in Paris! Back in the day, we were limited to select cities, but now you can check-in anywhere you please!
GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface.
GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 7 million unique features whereof 2.6 million populated places and 2.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. (more statistics ...). The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 11 million web service requests per day.
Your personal Life-streamer
GREAT READING EXPERIENCE - read your favorite blog posts and news in one place. Let the best content on the web come to you
LIMITLESS SHARE - send cool articles, photos, and videos to your scattered friends all over the world
AWESOME INTERACTION - start discussions, engage people, and monitor everything that happens on your social web from the same place
a new kind of family history site: a place where the focus is on people-a place to discover who you are. youwho is making it faster, easier, and more enjoyable to connect to your roots.
Did you ever find a picture on the internet and thought „Where is this ?". We can help you find this place!
Just click on „submit". You can either upload a picture or just enter the url of your picture. If you're lucky somebody knows this place and pins it on your google map!
We make you an insider wherever you go. Qs are the super social way to get bite-sized reviews and share your own opinions about the place you're at - making you a true insider wherever you go. Qs offer real-time community answers to common questions, like: Is there a long line? What's the best happy hour special? Is this place WiFi-friendly?
"Places uses the highest encryption standards available. On the client side encryption, we use an algorithm that mixes asymetric (RSA 2048) and symetric encryption (aes-256). Therefore, your content is securely encrypted on your device before it even goes on the Internet."
Alesti is a simple, user-friendly, free "Web 2.0" feed reader. All known feed formats like RSS and Atom are supported. You can import and export OPML files which contain feed collections. Since Alesti is web based you can keep track of your personal set of news and blogs at any place where you have access to the Internet. Also Alesti as a web application does not need to be installed on your PC and requires no special operating system.
Alesti is a simple, user-friendly, free "Web 2.0" feed reader. All known feed formats like RSS and Atom are supported. You can import and export OPML files which contain feed collections. Since Alesti is web based you can keep track of your personal set of news and blogs at any place where you have access to the Internet.