Monday, April 3, 2006

43 Places

I discovered 43 Places earlier this evening and have been having a wild time listing all the places I’ve been and want to go. Check out my profile with the nifty map. If you have an account too, link up to me.

Years ago, I had a vague idea for a service that could track and help coordinate travel. I started with recording my own and planned to expand it to track journal posts and pictures. That idea never turned into anything more material, and now 43 Places accomplishes the same and so much more.
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    premshree — Apr 3, 2006 2:57:43 AM — # ↩

    My only problem with 43* is the interface. I don't find it friendly.
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      ga_woo — Apr 3, 2006 12:26:27 PM — # ↩

      Friendly to new users? Or to everyone?

      I don't remember how I felt as a new user, but I like the UI now.
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        premshree — Apr 3, 2006 12:29:52 PM — # ↩

        Well, I personally don't like the UE.
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          ga_woo — Apr 3, 2006 12:34:26 PM — # ↩

          I was just going through your 43* account. You've been using 43places and I've been using AllConsuming. They each have different UI.
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    arunshanbhag — Apr 3, 2006 2:57:54 AM — # ↩

    OK! started added my own places!
    a big time sink - I suspect :-)
    thanks
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    ga_woo — Apr 3, 2006 12:30:38 PM — # ↩

    I started with recording my own and planned to expand it to track journal posts and pictures. That idea never turned into anything more material, and now 43 Places accomplishes the same and so much more.

    Depending totally on them is probably a bad idea. They can shut the site down any time they want to.
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      Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 3, 2006 12:37:36 PM — # ↩

      Isn't that true of any online service provider?

      And yet, when you roll out your own, it inevitably falls out of maintenance two or three years later as your activity map changes and you can no longer afford to maintain anything but the most important.

      Which is worse? Data that is useful with threat of disappearing, or data that you'll always have but never do anything with?

      It all comes down to the classic centralised vs decentralised argument.
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        ga_woo — Apr 3, 2006 12:48:32 PM — # ↩

        They should provide an option to export all your data. With more than one such website, the one that has this option wins.

        (I think livejournal should allow decentralisation so you could have users from different LJ sites on your friends-page. There's no real reason not to do it, except maybe livejournal.com's unwillingness because they have the biggest share.)

        So, um, yeah. What I want is to keep my and my family's 43places on my server and let that data interact with your data. I'm not sure, but I think this is a solved problem with openid and all. Of course, the only way this might happen is if Google suddenly decides they want to do it, just for fun :P
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          Kiran Jonnalagadda — Apr 3, 2006 2:28:09 PM — # ↩

          (I think livejournal should allow decentralisation so you could have users from different LJ sites on your friends-page. There's no real reason not to do it, except maybe livejournal.com's unwillingness because they have the biggest share.)

          It could also be that because there are so few people on the other sites, adding this feature rarely rises up the priority queue. LJ's monopoly reduces incentive for them to add this feature, which reduces incentive for people to use other sites, which feeds LJ's monopoly.
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    erhgyx — Apr 3, 2006 11:41:10 PM — # ↩

    there are quite a few websites now for logging/blogging about your travel.

    i use realtravel.com

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