Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Thing 40 – Mashup the Web

I found, when I looked at this list, that I had already played with a few of these sites. Here’s what I did:

I had somehow managed to miss Pandora and last.fm. So now I have signed up for each site and the mashup as well. I have found some new artists that I hadn’t heard of before. It is an easier site to enjoy than one that I had found before, called Live Plasma, which also makes music recommendations, but without the sound. Clearly this is much more fun. I’ve created two different “stations” and look forward to pleasant listening.

I had already begun to try Bkkeepr to keep track of what I read. I read voluminously, but often have only minimal retention of specifics. I am hoping that I can get a sense of what and how much I read this way. So far the biggest problem has been that I have already got a backlog of books I have finished and haven’t put into the list yet.

Wheel of Lunch is a hoot. The next time my family can’t make a decision, I think I will have to pull this one out. Lunchbox was also a nice option.

I had also already found the Walkable site. I found it interesting where they placed my house on the concept—75 out of 100—when I find it much more so. The distance the site considers walkable is under a half a mile, which is clearly shorter than people should be willing to walk. They also excluded sites that I would have included: for example, my local food coop isn’t listed as a grocery store. It is fun, though, if you are going to be visiting someplace else, because you could actually decide whether or not you would need to rent a car based on some of the information.

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