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z428@loma.ml
Kristian

Bewegungen vor dem Gewerbegebiet: Die Blitzsรคule fotografiert in loser Folge jene, deren Eile zu groรŸ ist. Auf dem Parkplatz des Supermarktes dahinter verladen Mรคnner in Camp David-Uniform Kisten voller Bier und Cola auf einen wuchtigen Dodge Ram. Zwei dunkelhรคutige Frauen mit Schwere in den Augen tragen Plastiktรผten aus der Tรผr in die Tiefe des Ortes. Etwas weiter: Alte Fassaden sind dekoriert, Schilder heiรŸen Gรคste willkommen, die Gedanken ringen mit Begriffen wie Heimat und Tradition - und den Vorurteilen der eigenen engen Welt. Grau das Licht, grau die Stimmung. Leise beginnt es wieder zu regnen.

#outerworld #places_of_old #where_we_are_who_we_were #home_and_the_hills

#places of old #where we are who we were #home and the hills

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Social mapping platform Atly launches with $18M to be a Reddit for real-world locationsโ€ฆ But is there place in the market for more such apps?

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Founded out of Israel in 2019, Atly claims to be creating the โ€œnext social paradigm for mapping and discovering places to go.โ€ Itโ€™s all about finding new restaurants, hiking trails, bike rental places, gluten-free eateries, record stores, rooftop bars, free public toilets, and all the rest.

Through the web or mobile app, users can create their own theme-specific community, after which they become the manager for that community, including setting rules for engagement and permissions around what other users can do in that community.

According to Maslansky, Atly is not generating any revenue itself yet, but some of its users are already earning by โ€œgating their communityโ€ to paid members.

Itโ€™s true that Google is rather slow nowadays in developing exciting new features (just look at far ahead Waze was on that front, so they got bought out), but there is also a lot to be said about โ€œwhere most people areโ€. That โ€œwhereโ€ is often the โ€œwhyโ€ which stops users migrating off to a new service, because their contacts are all in one place and there is a mass of useful information already available. So certainly, in this regard Google Maps has pretty good reviews, ratings, photos, and other info (as does Yelp). But possibly Atly will appeal to non-Google Map users still.

But what Atly is hoping will differentiate it, is a truly more social aspect, versus just a map with lots of reviews just posted to it. The Reddit concept has worked well, but it has no geolocation / mapping type organisation.

See https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/social-mapping-platform-atly-launches-with-18m-to-be-a-reddit-for-real-world-locations/
#Blog, #Atly, #mapping, #places, #reviews, #technology

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Visit to Spice Route Destination and De Villiers Chocolate outside Cape Town

4 slabs of hand crafted chocolate labelled Dark, Sea Salt with Caramel, and Coffee
Spice Route Destination is about 45 minutes drive, along the N1, from Cape Town. It is in Paarl South, situated right next door to the the Fairview Wine Estate (Goats, Cheese and Wine). It has great views facing back towards Cape Town and Table Mountain.

There are quite a few businesses situated at the location but of interest to us were the De Villiers Hand Crafted Chocolates (and they had a 20% off sale!), the CBC Craft Beer Brewery, and the restaurants. We paid R30pp to do chocolate tasting and we bought a few chocolates. Info on the chocolates at https://devillierschocolate.com/. Of course there are also wine sales, the Wilderer Distillery making artisan gin, and a few others vendors. See https://www.spiceroute.co.za/.

We had lunch at La Grapperia Bistro and Pizzeria and enjoyed the great view. We both had a seafood pizza for only R130 each. The beer of course was freshly brewed 100m North of us.

After lunch we enjoyed two scoops of hand-crafted ice cream. The chocolate is especially tasty as, of course, it has real high-quality chocolate in it!

It was also a chance to use the Galaxy S23 Ultra phone camera bit. So, there are some wide angle, 3x and 10x optical zoom shots.

See all the photos at https://photos.app.goo.gl/LqWMg4n4T3fGJ3RQA
#Blog, #brewery, #capetown, #chocolate, #places, #southafrica

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