18Sep2007
Heat mapping the globe
We are constantly improving the Vailoma service according to the feedback we receive. The latest build has a new feature we especially like. It’s a new cool version of the “Visited places” widget on the Vailoma Home page. The widget basically draws your visited places on a map. But with this version you can create a kind of a personal heat map of the globe tracking your travel taste! Not a very revolutionary idea as such, but we really like the looks of the widget now. It’s fun to surf people’s pages and quickly see which parts of the world they’ve been to and what they liked about it. You’re going to learn new things about your friends: “Hmm… she has had her best trips in the ex-eastern bloc.. I thought our romantic trip to Mauritius was supposed to be the best ever.” 
Actually, when we decided to revise the widget our goal was just to make the widget clearer and easier to navigate using the map zooming and the best and the worst lists. But as a side effect we got the heat mapping. Now this is the way development should go: you get more than you set out for…
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