Have ya'all seen what their doing at
www.frappr.com ? This looks to be is a really cool AND simple thing to add to a forums site!
Frappr = "Friends Mapper" = based on google maps, lets folks put a marker on a group map for their name and location, and/or share a photo, and/or share a shoutout. If you opt to create a frappr account when you add yourself to a map, then asks for your email and does a listserve digest sort of thing with daily update email that lists new members, photos, and shoutouts
Here's the one we setup for my site that we haven't announced to the public yet:
http://www.frappr.com/dragboatalley If you see this within one week of the date I posted this message - feel free to play with "Add Yourself" and just put a note in the shoutout that says "test message" and I'll delete those entries out before i show my map to the general public.
Here's another example my hubby found on a very busy forums site that gave me the idea to add a frappr map to my site too:
http://www.frappr.com/performanceyears So I was thinking it would be kinda cool if we had a simple mod that would allow me to have a wordlet for my Frappr URL. Then add a tweak or two somewheres on the 'edit user profile' pages so that if that wordlet is entered, it would show a hyperlink to that URL (plus the #addyourself bookmark to jump to signup form) so users can easily add themselves to community map from their profile.
Plus might be handly to have a similar link in members directory to 'view community map'. And of course for the non-ubb-savvy folks, the standard main options button addition to put their community map on standard nav links.
whatcha ya'all think?
