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Thing 19: Last thing!

So I'm really pleased at how many of the award winners' sites that I already recognize! I already use Craigslist, Zillow, Technorati, google docs, google maps, Flikr, Rollyo, facebook, youtube, and pbwiki (most thanks to this 23 things program!). So this time I tried out Yelp, a city directory service where you can read and post reviews of local businesses. Frederick doesn't have much on there. It looks like the listings are there, perhaps taken from the phone book, but there aren't enough reviews to be really useful yet. So I logged on and tried to review my dentist, and I kept getting an error message! So I guess I'll have to try again later and hope the link glitch has cleared. But I am excited about web tools that allow us to see the "softer side" of a place; the facts and stats are easy to come by, but the personal feel of a place is hard to derive without talking to folks who are in the know.

So that's it for my 23 things--how very exciting. (And how very much the tip of the I-ceberg!)
Ciao!

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