Late last week, Catherine twitterinvited folks to bulk up Ann Arbor on Placeshout. Three days later, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are the first and third most “shouted” cities, with San Francisco coming in second. This reminds me of the early, happy days of upcoming.org, when Ann Arbor was one of the locations with the most user and event churn.
So what the hell is Placeshout? Take a look. For context, see Ed’s notes on the KARB/KYIP Placeshout event. Here’s all of my activity on the site.
It’s too bad there’s no API, and no feeds. You can search and Google Maps browse and so forth right on the site, so there’s no pressing need, beyond the standard desire to pipe Placeshout white noise into various filters. Or grab a KML. Or update Placeshout from Twitter (I can only assume that’s what the additional 40 characters in twitterspace are for).
I do like how you aren’t expected to make friends with everybody. It’s enough, at least for now, to see a username you know and think O HAI and just move on with the pressing business of downrating inappropriately positive reviews of Ann Arbor’s crappier brewpubs.
srah | 23-Sep-07 at 10:55 am | Permalink
If you take the size of the place into account, Ann Arbor has probably Placeshouted a larger percentage of the places in town than San Francisco has, anyway. And I’ve Placeshouted the entire town that I live in in the last couple of minutes. :D
Andre Lewis | 23-Sep-07 at 12:47 pm | Permalink
Brian, we couldn’t help but notice how your Ann Arbor crew has out-shouted San Francisco so far!
I appreciate your comments. Look for more “social” functionality soon . . .
By the way, there’s a hidden per-city GeoRSS feed. Ann Arbor’s is http://placeshout.com/cities/17/shoutouts.rss
srah: I’d like to get some population numbers in the mix, so Ann Arbor can establish a permanent lead relative to population if it can ;-)
Spencer | 23-Sep-07 at 10:09 pm | Permalink
Has anyone gotten OpenID authentication to work? I get a 404 page after bouncing off protectnetwork.org.
Brian | 23-Sep-07 at 10:26 pm | Permalink
Spencer: I used OpenID (livejournal.com, isn’t that hilarious?) to log in, it is working fine in general.
Edward Vielmetti | 24-Sep-07 at 1:00 am | Permalink
I’ve used claimid.com’s OpenID to work just fine.