I thought the Crime Reports looked interesting, but I was unable to find a city that actually worked until I tried Chicago. I used to work in the Loop, so that was mildly intriguing, but my own neighborhood would have interested me more.
Using Walk Score, my neighborhood scored 83, which is not surprising since one of the reasons we bought a house where we did was the ability to walk to a library, movie theater, grocery store, and lots of restaurants. My parents' old neighborhood scored 78. I guess our family goes for walking. In contrast, my inlaws' house scored 5, which just goes to show that it really is in the middle of nowhere. The small town of 300 where my grandparents lived scored well. I like this mashup!
The Wheel of Lunch was a fun idea, but I don't know how useful it is. Maybe it would be helpful in an office that commonly goes out for lunch but has trouble deciding where to go? I liked Lunchbox as well, although I would have liked to be able to move the map around. The links to reviews were helpful.
Interestingness sure has some beautiful photos. Wish I could take photos that were as good!
Ping.fm looks like the most useful site of the bunch. With Twitter and Facebook, it sure would be nice to update one and update the other at the same time. I've already got our library blog feeding into Twitter via another service. It's good to know that there is more than one option for doing this, since I expect several companies like this to be out of business during the recession.
I searched for mashups and St. Paul and came up with CheaperDrinker: Your Happy Hour Finder. Perhaps this could be useful if I weren't cooking dinner for three other people during every happy hour. Sigh.
I made a Phreeting from Door County. I didn't see a way to embed this, just a link.
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