Ask Bjørn Hansen: February 2005 Archives

Sorry, the site has been behaving like a yoyo and I haven't been around to keep an eye on it. It's exactly the same setup as I use over at the Metamark site (with much higher load there), but here it's not very reliable to put it mildly. I've applied more band-aids until I have time to fix it properly later in the weekend.

(update: it's not been yoyo'ing since this post; I figured out what was wrong - yay)

I didn't notice this before; GeoURL was mentioned on CNet a few days ago.

The new site is scheduled to launch today, and I hope it does. GeoURL is a geographic search engine that essentially links the location of Web sites using GPS coordinates. You could find out, for example, if your favorite blogger lives anywhere near you--OK, I admit, that seemed to be its most promising feature. Still, bloggers have to find each other somehow, and there are probably other uses that have yet to be discovered.

Welcome to GeoURL 2.0, thanks for visiting!

What in tarnation is this thing!?

GeoURL maps geographic locations to websites letting you lookup websites near a location or near another website. It's great fun. If you haven't tried already, then go to the front page and click on a location on the map.

This looks a lot like something I've seen before ...

Yes, indeed! This is a relaunch (and re-implementation) of the original GeoURL site that was invented and built by Joshua Schachter (of del.icio.us fame). All the old URLs should work. If not, please send me a mail.

Why is it called beta?

Because we haven't tested it very much; and because there are still features missing that we are planning to add.

Why can't I zoom in on the map?

See "beta" above, we are working on it! And a bunch of other features; it's all very exciting. I haven't had time to work on the site since last weekend, so I decided that it'd be more fun to just get it released than to wait forever to get time to add Just One More Feature.

I have a suggestion! I want to help!

Drop us a mail; we ♥ suggestions!

Who are "we"?

Ask Bjørn Hansen made this and he likes to think that he's several people sometimes.