I made a webpage that suggests things to do near you, can I get some feedback?

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I don't get it. There's a spinning logo, a generic platitude, and a button that makes the inane comment change. I don't see how in any way it's making a useful suggestion for something to do near me.

Am I missing something?

Oh yeah, it's supposed to load up a list of places near you. What browser/OS are you using?

Perhaps this won't work because you aren't in the US.

At the time I tried it I was using Chrome on Windows XP, and I'm based in the UK.

Geographic prejudice should be a crime on the Internet.

Yeah, I don't know why it doesn't work. I use the location and region to give results instead of something country specific like zipcode. I guess if google local doesn't have anything in that area it kind of ruins it. :(

Is this useful to anyone? Should I pursue this further?

I was thinking of adding some kind of shared event calendar. What direction should I take this HN?

i am assuming you are using ip address to find where i am and pull in suggestions from google. seems like the suggestions all fall into a category, like movies, fair, restaurants.

you could add vote up buttons to get better data? also facebook integration... to see what your friends might like. it's an interesting idea for sure.

thanks for the feedback! I'm actually getting the location data from google itself.

I like the facebook integration idea, and was thinking of doing something with their checkin feature? Don't they have something that lets you say: "I'm here!"?

yeh facebook has a checkin feature... foursquare and lots of those sites have apis also.

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