Wow! I've been exploring some of the winners and honorable mentions from the Web 2.0 Awards and I have to say I am really amazed by what's out there.
The first site I looked at was citeulike, listed as an honorable mention in the books category. The purpose of the site is to help "academic" types organize, store, and share the scholarly journal articles they are reading. This way they can access their collection of reading material from any computer and import the citation into Endnote or BibText when ready. The other neat thing is they can share their reading list with others and see who else is reading articles of interest. Because I live with someone who regularly leaves giant piles of journal articles lying around the house, citeulike struck me as a neato innovation.
Next I discovered HousingMaps.com a mashup of google maps and apartment listings from craigslist. From the homepage you can select a city and a price range or click on a city icon within a United States map. The default setting is rental units but you can also choose to search home sales, rooms for rent, or sublets.
I clicked on the icon for San Francisco Peninsula and then clicked the For Rent option. The left panel of the page displayed a google map with colored icons indicating available rentals. When you click on a colored icon, the price, location, and title of the rental listing is displayed, along with photos when available. The title of the rental listing is hyperlinked directly to the original craiglist posting. On the right side of the page, alongside the interactive map, is a list of the apartments in your selected area with their price, bedroom size, city, and date posted to craigslist. I can't tell you how useful this would have been last fall when we were looking for an apartment.
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Hmm...housingmaps.com link doesn't seem to work...sounds neat, though.
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