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Finding yourself heading to super discounted food outlets, combing through coupons, and generally not eating so much? These are hard times for folks on a limited budget and food prices aren't helping. MetroSeeq aims to help alleviate some of the economic hurt with a website that does the coupon clipping for you . MetroSeeq is a new site that combines a search engine with Google Maps to help you find sales, deals, coupons and ways to save a buck or two when it comes to food, restaurants, and groceries in your area. There's two ways to search: Proximity and Deal Search. The latter lets you find ...  read more
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Glotter allows you to use Google maps to create maps displaying various types of data that you can share with the online community. Maps are categorized into travel and places (the Louvre), knowledge (NASA headquarters and centers), leisure and sports (the Beijing Olympic Games 2008), and entertainment and fun (the spot of five people waiting for the Applie iPhone 3G to come out in New York City who are trying to make a Guinness World Record for “the longest time waiting in line to buy something”). There is also a tab full of useful services to help you arrange and set up your map. Thes... read more
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NJherald.com is the way to go to gather all the information and local news you might need to get around Northwest New Jersey. The site covers all the standard areas for a local daily: weather, sports, community life, local economy, state news. While the site’s outlook is very much in consonance to that unsaid tenet of web design whereby local news sites have to look dull and boring, it presents some interesting features, like the interactive garage sale finder, which lets users post a classified advertising of their events and users find them on a Google map, or search by keyword, location o... read more
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eHarmony is old hat. Despite all the commercials and fanfare, most of the time dating sites don't produce results, especially for those wanting a casual encounter. People who want to a quick fling don't want to pay or take tests, they just want results. FlingMix is one of the new adult personal sites trying their hand at ebusiness. It's location based and is built using the GoogleMaps api. This makes it easy for your average joe to track down a hot something of their liking close to them. Why bother filling out forms or hopping across the country to meet when you can get some local sex? FlingM... read more
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Startups are nothing new, nor or they confined to the insulated walls of Silicon Valley. Today, they have a global reach from Bulgaria to Australia to Baltimore. If you’ve ever wondered what the global startup spread looked like exactly, you might want to have look at StartupWarrior. Startup Warrior is a mashup of Google Maps and Crunchbase, the TechCrunch made database of technology companies. You’d be surprised how many startup hubs there actually are. There might be one in your neighborhood. It’s a good way to scope for jobs or decide whether to start your own tech company. If you wan... read more
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Google Maps are pretty fab and all, but haven’t you ever wished there were more color, more flash and more leeway to add doodles? The maps are primed for it and now, with QuickMaps, you can draw to your heart’s content on top of G-map of your choice (the Earth, stars, moon and Mars) . You can add markers (and captions) and once you’ve complete your work, the map with all your added extras can be saved in your account. You’ll also be able to add your map to any website or blog and share it with pals. Each map may be accompanied by your own description and title; you can also import ... read more
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So you think the world is your oyster and you’re young and you’re free to go anywhere, do anything. Well, with Earth Album you can. Earth Album is a clever GoogleMaps/ flickr mashup that allows you to explore the world via a gorgeous array of flickr photos. So, fancy a trip to Namibia, or Brazil? Not a problem. Click on the map and you’ll find a group of photos pop showing Brazil’s best. Click on any of the photos to enlarge and get a little description to go with. Or click on the link to visit that flickr page. Earth Album’s been around for a while, but fear not, the images change e... read more
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Powered by Google Maps, Geoquake provides you with a 2-D automobile driving simulation. After given the choice of four vehicles (a car, truck, bus or trailer), you witness an aerial view of the street map along with a few more features, including zooming options and map display choices. You have control of a moving steering wheel and can keep track of your speed in either miles or kilometers per hour. All you need is Flash Player 9+ to simulate a real life driving situation, all from the safety and comfort of your own home.... read more
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You may have heard of Plazes a new social web-on-the-go site where you can share your whereabouts with your favorite friends and family. So if you’re in need of a pick me up after work, connect to Plazes and let them know you want to go out. All your contacts can respond if and when they’ll meet you. You can check out their locations in real time too. Now there’s a new desktop client for Plazes called Klinkr created by a group of “five guys and a girl”. Klinkr uses the Adobe Air Platform and has a number of useful features. You can access all of your Plazes contacts on your desktop... read more
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Do you have an extra $23 lying around? How about putting it towards a prime piece of Manhattan real estate? Roofarena sells rooftop properties- virtually, that is. The site has taken a Google map of Manhattan, and sells members the “building”; a square in the shape of the roof where buyers can put an advertisement, a family photo, or anything else they want to display. Recent sales have cost between $19 and $50, and available plots are clearly demarcated with a “sale” sign on the site. Potential buyers can also test out their space for free before buying, although they always run ... read more
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Panedia.com is a content creation and licensing company that specializes in high-quality, geo-referenced panoramic photography. Currently, the site offers photography of locations in Australia (where the company is based) and San Francisco, but it plans to cover more areas soon. The name “Panedia” is a compound of the words ‘panoramic’ and ‘encyclopedia,’ which the site says reflects its goal of creating “a professionally produced visual reference and archive of our changing world.” All imagery featured on Panedia.com are shot by professional photographers. The site offers 360-... read more
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If you are a fan of Twitter but find that you’d like a bit more of a visual representation of other users’ location when they make a status update, then you’ll find YouTwit to be a very useful application. Simply go to youtwit.co.uk, and enter the Twitter ID of someone you’d like to follow and you will instantly be able to see the last status update that person made and any new ones they make while you are viewing along with their location on a map of the earth. You are probably already familiar with Google Maps so you’ll know that being able to follow people geographically with thi... read more
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