Another Raincity Studios project released to the public - this one is a location based feed aggregator called Placeblogger.com.
Designed to gather a deep view of their any micro-location, readers can follow all your local content in one place or track the news in places you've lived or want to visit. Travelers can reconnoiter destinations and arrange coverage to coincide with their itinerary. I.e. blogging from Seattle on Monday, reading blogs, in NYC on Wednesday, and reading and writing Prague blogs on Friday.
The geo-located aggregate feed also bakes-in geo-tagged Flickr photos, Wikipedia content, Google maps. Participants' fave blogs, posts, locations, etc. are gathered at your personal profile page. Bloggers can add their content on-the-go by attaching their location to posts creating a travel timeline of content + location.
Raincity Studios worked with Knight Foundation 2007 News Challenge grant winner Lisa Williams to create this project which is a new way to quickly get to know about a specific location in a deep manner whether the place is somewhere you live, or you are just passing through. Her objective was to create a tool where
The project used most all facets of the inter-disciplinary team including strategic planning to custom code development, database migration, full UI grapic design and themeing, and finally deployment. Placeblogger is one of the first tenants in the Bryght Canadian data centre and hosted in a Bryght Drupal-optimized VPS .
You can check out the Placeblogger portfolio narrative to learn more and consider stopping by to sign up for a Placeblogger account and tell the world where you are blogging from.
