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Filed under: Developer, Fun, Internet, Web services, Google

Track flights with a Google Maps Mashup

Track flights with a Google Maps Mashup

Have a friend that's coming in for a landing and want to see exactly where they are at the moment? Or if you just like watching planes, check out the GMaps Flight Tracker. This Google Maps mashup tracks the status of inbound flights scheduled to land in Atlanta, Boston, New York's JFK, LA, Miami and San Francisco. Pick your city, and a list of the arriving flights are displayed. Click or mouse over the airline flight number of plane icon and the altitude, speed and heading coordinates are displayed as well as flight trail waypoints so you can check out the travel path.

The inbound flight schedule refreshes every 40 seconds so flight statuses are ensured to be at their most accurate. Data is provided from fboweb.com and based on the position reports for each aircraft once per minute, and sometimes once every 20 seconds in high traffic areas. Want to check things out in 3d? Download the GE kml file and check out past flights and height profiles in Google Earth.

Filed under: Business, Web services, Google

Flight info care of Google

google flight statusFlying with Google has never been this easy. Your favorite search engine is now offering everyone a way to easily check the status of flights through SMS while running down the halls of the airport.

Users can simply text flight numbers to 466453 (GOOGLE), and the status information, provided by flightstats.com, will be relayed back to you. If you want the want to get in touch with a specific airline by phone, text the airline name to the same number, and Google will shoot you back the main telephone number you can call for inquiries.

Even though the Google flight info service is currently only available for departing or arriving flights in the US, flightstats.com the supplier does offer international stats, so Google could be releasing this service worldwide.

The Google Flight Status gadget can also be added to your personalized homepage.

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Web services, Social Software

Trip planning and organizing with TripHub

TripHub makes it easy to plan and organize your next trip and collaborate with your travel party. The TripHub dashboard is comprised of Trip Tools, MyTrip Hub, and a Shop. The Trip Tools section comprises of your event schedule, accommodations, flight, guest attendance, and a trip blog. You initially start off the planning by entering a trip name, and destination with start and end dates. You then move to your guest settings with an RSVP by date, and send out invitations to people who you would like to attend the trip. The Trip Tools section help you set up plans for the flight, accommodations, and trip details.

TripHub is a nice little online social application that lets your travel party stay in touch and collaborate when planning a trip. Collaboration, is in my opinion, the best part of TripHub. Being able to make suggestions to your travel party on accommodations and flights helps make travel planning a nice group effort.

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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