I’ve been playing around with Frappr for a couple of weeks now, and recently set up a “Friends of CORE” map which currently displays some of the CORE employees.
Frappr uses Google maps to create these maps representing communities of interest, you could even set one up to represent your own circle of friends!
As the admin of a Frappr site you can even copy and paste simple scripts which you can add to your home page, including an image of the map itself which is feed live from the Frappr site – and will update as the Frappr map is updated!
I’ve added this script to include the Friends of CORE map to the right hand menu of my blog so you can see what it looks like – even the marker pegs are all linked.
Still some way to go before the Friends of CORE map is as populated as the Ultraversity map, set up by my friend Stephen Powell!
Frappr is addictive – it captures the transience of blogging and gives me that edgy sense of “just filling it in as you go along” when I check each day to see “the where” of who has visited
“Farewell, Blackadder [hands him a parchment]. The foremost cartographers of the land have prepared this for you; it’s a map of the area that you’ll be traversing. [Blackadder opens it up and sees it is blank] -They’ll be very grateful if you could just fill it in as you go along. Bye-bye. ”