Tagzania is very cool. It's a geography-based place manager that funcitons like popular bookmark managers. It allows you to mark geographic locations and tag them. You can then use an intergrated Google Map viewer to view the map or satellite display of the location. For an example, I've just started riding a road bike and tagged the few places I've taken my bike in the past month.
Would be cool if you could save routes. I could save the cycing routes I take on vacation for retrieval on follow up trips or to share with others. A natural progression would be for Tagzania to be merged with or partner with World66 or some other travelog where people could save their travel information.
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07/21/05 @ 19:39
Very interesting. Have you checked out 43places? I'm addicted, and trips/routes is "on the list" of things to add.
07/22/05 @ 09:02
Thanks, Boris! Pretty cool. I hadn't visited, but just went now and added a few places I want to go. Will be very interesting if they have trip/route planners or mappers. This is my main interest. This is another service that would benefit from partnering with World66 or any other non-commercial, participatory travel site, in my opinion.
With a lot of these sites (like the Things part of the 43 sites) once I get beyond the basic networking based on whatever attributes are used for connection (locations in this case), I want more. I like to use travel sites like Trip Advisor for researching about places or hotels, for instance, before I go there. But that's just people reviewing places. No need for 43places to duplicate that. But, what 43places has that is unique is the captured information about personal interests in 43things. If they tie in the thing attributes in 43things to places to somehow make recommendations, that would be interesting. For instance, if I'm browsing a thing such as "Learn to paint", wouldn't it be useful to show that:
That kind of recommender system seems like a no-brainer to me. They should just do it if they have the capability of making those correlations, because there has to be something better that differentiates this site to make it a killer in my opinion. But there may be some need to keep it simple as well. I don't know what the goals are for these sites or if they exist just to feed Amazon or whoever else is funding them. If they want to make it useful as a travel information site (which is what I want) they could do these things.
Also, there is an opportunity to make more valuable connections to information outside of the social network -- connections that can lead to revenue in terms of affiliate referrals and can also give users added value. I want content and connections to travel information and booking deals, reservations etc. If I'm looking at geolocation-specific information, that kind of recommendation, e.g. hilighting vacation deals to Aruba if I say "I want to visit Aruba" is easy to make. So they should make it in an explicit manner, not relying on the targetting of Google Ads. Just sell the advertising space to all the travel sites and target them to specific places. The could make money partnering with kayak or whomever for booking to make more money on this thing.
05/15/07 @ 09:56
Have a look at wikimapia.org. It has an easier interface & is more popular.
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