Comments on: Be Vocal and the mashing of local data http://ash10.com/2009/06/be-vocal-and-the-mashing-of-local-data/ Pete Ashton helps you understand how the Internet works. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:10:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Karl Binder http://ash10.com/2009/06/be-vocal-and-the-mashing-of-local-data/#comment-10822 Karl Binder Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:17:44 +0000 http://ash10.com/?p=508#comment-10822 Good thoughts Pete. I've been mulling over similiar ideas for a while after a social chat with some folks from Common Purpose. The thoughts were to create a full screen map, using existing tech (probably a Googlemap) that could pin 4 dimensional data. This could and should contain upcoming and past events, blogs, people, companies, groups etc.. etc.. The key would then be providing an intuitive filter interface. There's no point searching for events and scanning the ones in your vicinity if most of them are past, so upcoming events by default, past if you want to see reviews or whatnot available by a one click filter. Event pins could also be colour coded by their immediacey (sure it's a word and sure I've not spelt it right). You could effectively mash together a virtual city, and as long as the filter panel was good, the feeds were alive and the site/app was cross platform with all the usual integration and sharing features it would provide an events calendar, blog map, business directory and communication portal in one. Reading that back it sounds ill thought out, but I'm sure there's something in there somewhere. Must be better than a blank touchscreen in Bullring proclaiming 'Upcoming events'... Good thoughts Pete. I’ve been mulling over similiar ideas for a while after a social chat with some folks from Common Purpose. The thoughts were to create a full screen map, using existing tech (probably a Googlemap) that could pin 4 dimensional data. This could and should contain upcoming and past events, blogs, people, companies, groups etc.. etc.. The key would then be providing an intuitive filter interface. There’s no point searching for events and scanning the ones in your vicinity if most of them are past, so upcoming events by default, past if you want to see reviews or whatnot available by a one click filter. Event pins could also be colour coded by their immediacey (sure it’s a word and sure I’ve not spelt it right).

You could effectively mash together a virtual city, and as long as the filter panel was good, the feeds were alive and the site/app was cross platform with all the usual integration and sharing features it would provide an events calendar, blog map, business directory and communication portal in one. Reading that back it sounds ill thought out, but I’m sure there’s something in there somewhere.

Must be better than a blank touchscreen in Bullring proclaiming ‘Upcoming events’…

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