Teh Internets Find-Your-Ass-With-Both-Hands-and-a-Map.Com
posted by on June 16 at 16:15 PM
I forget where I bumped into this…maybe a press release?…but this website, which looks like a joke, seems to be real. Outside.in now has a “Radar” function (emphasis mine):
Radar lets you keep track of what’s happening around you right now simply and easily. Using Radar you can:.* See what’s happening within 1000 feet of where you are currently (as well as what’s happening in your neighborhood and city)
* Keep track of places and topics that are of special interest to you
* Receive instant alerts of things going on right around you…and more
To use Radar, you have to be signed in. And if you haven’t yet registered, you’ll need to do that of course, too.
Wow, a totally useless aggregating website that seems painfully convinced of its own utility. It feels like 2000 all over again.
Sounds like another Windows application. By which I mean you can open a fucking window faster than you can register for this bullshit.
Actually, it feels more like 1999.
2000, party over, oops, out of time ...
I bet at least three of my nerdy Microsoft friends have sent me links and/or invites. Like they did for that utterly useless Dodgeball site.
I bet at least three of my nerdy Microsoft friends have sent me links and/or invites. Like they did for that utterly useless Dodgeball site.
This site is made by Steven Johnson, who wrote The Ghost Map and some other good nonfiction.
As geoblogging takes off (and when twitter gets location-aware) it'll be really cool.
Sounds more like 1984. Register for this site, and we'll track every click you make. And then sell that information to someone else.
oops!
The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
You may have mistyped the address or we may have moved the page.
For more help:
contact@outside.in
(That's where the "register" links send you)
I'm with #6: Sounds like some Big Brother shit to me.
This whole thing is fucking bullshit, the register link is your first clue. In any case, this site is a childish circle jerk for people with little else to do, like fucking Poe, for instance.
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