Blog homeIf you like jokes like this:
My wife’s gone to the Caribbean
Jamaica?
No, she went of her own accord
….. then here is a new home for them….. http://SheWentOfHerOwnAccord.com/
The 2nd line of every joke is essentially a place name…. which enables the jokes to be plotted onto a map:
Location based content is going to be big in the coming years – and if you are a destination marketing site you really ought to be collecting your own interesting and useful data right now. Jokes may not be the ideal content for you….. but you get the idea.
As soon as services such as Yahoo Fire Eagle become available to all websites you will see an upsurge in location based content / services. The “moving to mobile” mantra (reinforced at every travel industry conference) has become so repetitive it is now boring – however – there is no denying it will be important to the online travel industry.
What content are you collecting now that will not be stale in 2 years time?
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Greetings, Mr B,
A joke specifically for you.
Mat. aka JabbaC
Very good……..
I like the other one you put up as well!
Alex, good to hear that Travel Rants is ahead of the game
http://www.travel-rants.com/travel-guide-map/ [shameless plug]
I am working on this feature that’s all about adding location/attractions based travel blog content within Google maps.
You make a good point about stale content, but the fact that’s human edited rather than automated is an advantage right? At the moment the challenge is finding content useful to the consumer/traveller, and continuously updating the map.
Hi Darren
The comment about stale content – well say you start collecting restaurant reviews….. those need to be refreshed every year or so…. but jokes (for example) don’t age….. (well they do… but not quite the same way!)
Cheers. Alex
Hi Alex,
Have you “played around” with Yahoo Pipes?
Using Yahoo Local data, i.e. restaurant or hotel reviews, etc you can add user generated data, without having to worry about the content being stale, providing Yahoo obviously continues to allow people to leave reviews.
You can then embed this data into Google Map/Earth.
Hi Darren
I haven’t played with it….. however I did write the specification for a similar RSS / data aggregation system a couple of years ago. My spec was more useful than Yahoo Pipes – as was more commercial….. however you can’t dine out on what may have been…