This provocative quote is from Harry Shearer, the actor who is behind the voices of a lot of The Simpsons characters (Ned Flanders, Seymour Skinner, Mr. Burns…). In fact it is a compliment to his favourite city, New Orleans.
The saving grace of New Orleans is its poverty. There’s never been enough money in New Orleans to destroy either the architecture or the music scene. People don’t play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or LA – to become stars or to get rich – they play because they’ve got to.
It certainly sound like a great place to visit and listen to some good jazz!
Harry has said that in an interview for one of my favourite series of the Guardian’s Travel section: Me and my travels, where famous people are asked interesting questions about their travels, favourite cities and memorable trip stories.
In fact, I like so much these interviews, that I was thinking on adding similar personal questions about general travel experiences in Wolpy profiles. It would be like having your own interview in your profile.
I was even thinking on adopting the “I only can see the amount of information that I’m willing to share” game that our friends of Tagueame added to their application (you only can read others people’s answers if you also answer some of the questions). It can be fun and can motivate people to share their experiences :)
Wolpy has been running pretty well in a server with only 256 MB of RAM during its first months of life, but we have been experiencing some downtimes lately due to traffic growth so we’re going to migrate to a bigger server tonight.
We will start the migration at around 5:00 GMT and the application would be inaccessible over the migration period (that we would try to make as short as possible). Sorry for the inconveniences!
BussinessWeek Magazine released some months ago the 2008 list of the best places to live in the World. Once again, Zurich comes out on top! Here it is the full list:
Since Wolpy is a great tool for marking places in a map, besides the regular use of pinning visited places, we’ve noticed some new and alternative uses of the application emerging.
We really love to see how Wolpy can help people even in ways that we never would have thought.
Remember that, both if you are making a regular use of Wolpy or an alternative one, you can embed your map in your own website or social network profile. And it’s really easy!
We’ve added 2 new fields to the profile form: “From” and “Now living in“. We’ve tested it with several users and only a few are living in the same place where they born. What about you?
In the next version of Wolpy you will be able to upload your own travel photos of each of your visited places but meanwhile, we have added some Panoramio‘s photos to the page of each place in Wolpy, so it will be easy to get an idea of how a place looks like.
Another little feature. Since we are growing fast, it’s becoming difficult to find friends among all Wolpy users, so we have added an user search box in the users page.
Just a little break (we are working hard those days in the beta version of Wolpy) to launch a cool feature.
Since some web services (like flickr or myspace) don’t admit embed code for inserting interactive maps in their pages, we have created an image version of your map of visited places so you can insert it even in this kind of web sites.
As a static image it cannot be zoomed neither the points can be clicked to go to each place’s page in Wolpy, but this method should work on every site you’ll try to insert your map.
