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I wanted to make sure that everyone knows about this weekend’s mapping party activities brought to you by the OpenStreetMap project. Here’s the cliff notes version:
You can find many more details in the Silicon Florist post on the topic. Have fun!
I’m a huge fan of xkcd, and today’s comic does a great job of illustrating why we designed Shizzow to require that you shout your location rather than automating the process.
Brady also has an interesting take on this issue over on the O’Reilly Radar blog.
“I am personally looking forward to these services becoming ubiquitous so that I can track my location and aspects of my life, but as they currently stand these services are not poised for mainstream adoption. They need to do more to prevent people from embarrassing or endangering themselves.”
Quoted from XKCD on the Future Self.
Remember to shout responsibly, people. There are some things that I just don’t want to know about you!
The Shizzow team is will be in Austin for SxSW! If you happen to be at SxSW, make sure you say hi to Dawn, Mark and myself (Ryan). We’d love to hear about how you use Shizzow and to tell you a little more about ourselves. Here are a few places we know we’ll be:
Dawn, our community manager, will be speaking on a the panel at Post Standards: Creating Open Source. This will be on Sunday, March 15th at 3:30pm in Room Hilton C.
The Shizzow team is planning to be at BarCampAustin 4 most of Saturday.
You can also listen to our shouts on Shizzow and track us down at one of the many parties and other meetups at SxSW.
If you need to quickly find the place you’re at, you can hit any of the following quicklinks to places at SXSW:
And if you need to find which party the other Shizzow users are currently at, make sure you check out Shizzeeps, which is a web application built by @crunchysue using the Shizzow API.
We are really happy with the launch of Shizzow this week, and we had a great time last night talking at Beer and Blog and on Strange Love Live.
I wanted to also take a minute to thank all of the people who wrote articles about us and talked about Shizzow with their friends. Here is a quick wrap up of the coverage (leave a comment if I missed any posts).
If you missed our original post about the launch, here it is.
Don’t forget to also check out the many new applications that are currently in development (most are looking for alpha / beta testers *hint, hint*).