What is we♥places?
we♥places is a utility for bookmarking places and addresses in the real world. By helping you record places you want to go, and letting you discover places that other people have bookmarked, we♥places helps you discover things in the world that you might not have found.
What can i do with we♥places?
- Researching a trip to a new city, you want to make a list of the interesting places to go.
- Someone mentions a good local bar or cafe and you want to note it down so you can remember to go there one day.
- You just want to explore the world and find interesting new destinations.
Bookmarklet
Drag the bookmarklet below to your link bar. Then anytime you're on a webpage with a cool place on it - click "we♥places" and we'll save it to your place bookmarks.
we♥places « Use your mouse to drag this grey box up to the bookmarks bar in your web browser.
Link to we♥places
Want to link to we♥places? We have three buttons for you to use. Feel free to hotlink to our images.
RSS Feeds
You have a per user rss feed at /users/your_user_name/rss - and there is a site wide rss feed at /places.rss.
Flickr integration
Flickr is an awesome photo-sharing website run by Yahoo. Whenever you bookmark a place with we♥places, we look for photos from flickr that might be of the place you added. Just add a new place, then click on a photo that looks good - and we'll copy that photo from flickr and use it as the photo for that place.
We retain a link to the original photo on flickr so you can visit the original photographer.
KML feeds
KML is a way of sharing information about places with other websites and programs. If you go to your page on we♥places, you will see a button labeled 'kml'. Click on this button to get a list of all your places in kml. You can use this url to view your places on lots of different websites.
Here are some examples:
View on your iphone
You can view your places on your iphone - just open up the maps application on your iphone, then enter this url into the 'address search' bar.
Your URL: http://www.weheartplaces.com/users/benn/kml
You can then click the 'locate me' button (the little crosshair) and google maps will zoom in on your current location and show you any nearby places that you have bookmarked.
Blog widget
Paste the widget code below into your blog to get a list of your places on your blog. This list will be updated nightly from your bookmarks. You can change the 180px parameter to make the widget narrower or wider to fit with your blog theme.
OpenID support
We support openid for logging in. Just enter your openid url when you click 'log in' and we'll do the rest. If you don't know what openid is - it's a way to remember less passwords on the internet. See myopenid for more information.
Brightkite integration
Brightkite is a cool site for recording where you go in your day to day travels. If you go to your account settings, you can enter your brightkite username, and we will suck the places you have been from your brightkite activity feed, and add them to your 'places i've been' page in we♥places.
This is a good way to start populating your we♥places account. Your friends can see the places you've been on brightkite.
