Visual Phone Search, Foreign Languages and Street Advisor

Posted by Hyder on April 16th, 2007

Thrrum.com – Your Phone Becomes a Virtual Book Catalogue. Browsing through books, you find one you like, and you’re intrigued by the author or the topic. Using Thrrum, your camera phone can just snap a picture, and it will tell you more about what you’re looking at. Your phone will dig up nice facts like the price, the publisher, the date of publication, and whatever else you might find in a library catalogues. Presumably, you can do this with things besides just books (like movies, for instance). read more »

Place4Langs.com - Your Place for Languages. Place4Langs is a convenient Ruby on Rails style language improvement site. It makes finding people for language exchanges, language schools, teachers, and students easy. Currently, it’s only available for Madrid, Prague, and Moscow, but they only launched the site a couple of weeks ago and will be growing it with time. You can make a profile stating what you’re looking for so that people in your area can easily find you. read more »

StreetAdvisor.com - Your Street, Your Voice. Street Advisor is your virtual neighborhood stop. If you are looking to re-locate, or connect to members in your neighborhood, Street Advisor gives you the lowdown on Anystreet, Planet Earth. It’s based on user generated content, a rating system and a community message board. The streetboard is used a place for neighborhood chat, a virtual stoop, if you will, for input, comments, rumors, whatever you like. read more »