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Dopplr vs TripIt: web 2.0 travel sites compared

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’ve been using Dopplr for a while now, and recently got an invitation code for TripIt. Both are web 2.0 social networking websites for travellers, and a lot of people have been talking about them in relation [...]

BarCampBlock: Session notes roundup

A number of people have been blogging about sessions at BarCampBlock. There are plenty of session notes on the wiki, but I thought I’d link a few of the people who are posting about specific sessions they attended or ran.

I blogged two myself:

Why is Programming Hard? with Kragen Sitaker:

Here’s some of [...]

Bookmooch

Heard of BookMooch? I was recently introduced to it via the London Perl Mongers mailing list. It’s one of several book-sharing services around, the best-known of which, I guess, is BookCrossing. But unlike BookCrossing, which centres around people dropping off books in public places, BookMooch matches up people who’ve got books [...]