Archive for the 'Surf and travel: books, tools, gear' Category

Docoloco - a recommendation site

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Docoloco has a simple idea: you know a good place to eat, to go out, to stay or to have fun, post it on Docoloco and recommend food, places, … for others - locally. You can browse for San Francisco, or Berlin in Germany as well as Melbourne in Australia.

Docoloco

If you need a good advise where to eat sushi, check out Docoloco. Docoloco provides you a city map including the recommendations by users, their comments and the links to theses places and businesses.
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Flight wait screen

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

A simple, but informative mashup of data (flight information) and Google Maps is FlightWait. FlightWait is, hmm, all about air traffic above the US, indicating any flight which is delayed. You will see these flights on your screen, marked with different colors (means different delays from 0-15 min to more than 2 hrs). The data is provided by the FAA (Federeal Aviation Association).

FlightWait

Link: FlightWait

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VideoChat mit SeeToo

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Today, I will present you a quite new VideoChat service, it’s called SeeToo and has some nice features. What’s the idea behind SeeToo?

Let’s say you’re right now at our surf beach in Costa Rica and had some great waves this morning. Your buddy made a nice video of your last ride, and you want to share it with your surfing buddies at home. Instead of sending it via email, which is not suitable due to the size of the file, and instead of uploading it on YouTube so everyone will have a look at it, you can go to SeeToo and upload the file from your PC at the internet café. The say to SeeToo to send an invitation to your friend at home. If he’s online, you can watch the videoclip together and chat about it simultaneously.

seetoo

An alternative service may be Vlip and Orgoo.

Link: SeeToo

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For teams and groups: one email-address

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Sometimes, it is very useful to use one email-address for all. But without an own email-server or hosted services, this is difficult. With Innercircle, it is easy:

  • get an free account
  • import all email-address of your team / group members
  • now you can share everything you can email

The big advantage is that you don’t have to enter / know anymore individual email-addresses of your friends, but only your shared one! This is perfect for travelling or if you have a circle of friends all over the world.
Innercircle

Link: Innercicle
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GlobalMotion: all the places in the world

Friday, November 16th, 2007

GlobalMotion is a website with a huge objective:

“GlobalMotion’s mission is to create the world’s largest database of places. Explore the hundreds of places already added or add your own favorite place!”

Well, you may have a look at the state of work right now, here is the link, and here some background info:

  • at the moment (November 15th), there are about 800 places registered
  • every place can be shown on a Google map
  • some hard facts about the data are store in the GlobalMotion wiki

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Air travel related websites

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

For all of you who wants to use travel time efficiently and comfortable as possible, FlightAware may a helping hand. FlightAware gives you info about live flights and airport tracking.

Another nice application is SeatGuru. SeatGure gives you seat-related information for different aircraft like

  • airline aircraft lineup and general information
  • good seats vs. bad seats
  • In-Flight Amenity box

A nice, but not complete service - many airlines are missing. For those who travel with WLAN capable devices, this HotSpot list is handy.

For your travel preparation don’t miss our hints like triporama, FareCast or TripTie.
SeatGuru
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Surfing in Island

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

This is a very short notice: Gadling brought that topic - surfing in Island. Although I’m a fan of northern countries, surfing in ice cold water is not mine. A surf day at a beach, palm trees and sun, there is no comparable in Island. For the die hard fans, Island may be a once in a life time experience - for sure the break is yours.

But whether you surf here in Costa Rica or there in Island, surf is up!

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Vayama - an easy way to book your journey

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Vayama is a travel platform where you can search and book flights. Vayama is dedicated to international flights and also includes many overseas cheap air lines. Check it out! Alternative: FareCast

vayama

Link: Vayama

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Man vs Wild - the Moab Desert 4 of 5

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007


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Amicoz - a breeze of green

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Amicoz is one of these travel platforms where you can meet other tranvellers, read their stories and exchange about your project. It’s fun to read, with many galleries to watch and so nice social network functionalities. From the Gobi desert to the Islands of Tahiti, I saw a lot of interesting stuff but also some spam content too. Other services like Amicoz are Troovy and Travellerspoint.

amicoz

Link: Amicoz

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