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"Goby Wants to Tell You Where to Go"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Don't know what to do with your free time? There's a search engine for that. Goby, available at http://www.goby.com/, aims to link you with leisure activities. It's in beta, and if its logo and home page background are any indication, it's also underwater...

Instead of a single query box, you have to tell Goby at least two of three things: what you want to do, where you want to do it, and when you want to do it....

The results show the name of the place, an image, and where the listing came from (in this case backpacker.com.) There are also additional buttons to show more info, get photos, or search for what's nearby...

Goby is a good idea, though you might have to tweak your searches a little to get what you want. I see a lot of possibilities as more APIs offer geolocation tools and services. Pictures of the First Landing State Park are great, but how about tweets from folks who have been recently or who are nearby?"

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Source: ResearchBuzz, 5 January 2010

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).