Raincity Studios流景科技再度重拳出击，基于地理位置的聚合服务网站Placeblogger.com已经上线。

在任一具体地区，用户可以发现你所在地相关的丰富内容，跟踪当地最新消息，并搜寻目的地资讯和博客。当你想迁居某地的时候，或者只是想去某个城市呆两天，也许是某个不知名的乡下几日游 —— 你都可以快速的找到相关内容，谁去过那里，评价如何，他们走了怎样的路线，沿途有什么风景，吃了哪些不该吃的东东，遇到了哪位美女，那美女是否依然住在那里＝＝你也可以告诉更多的人你有什么样的经历。

这个基于地理位置信息的网站提供基于地标的Flickr照片组，Wikipedia内容，Google地图等各种信息。用户的博客，帖子，足迹等信息都可在用户资料中分享，也可以把这些串成时间线，让基于时间和地点的足迹更加清晰了然。

Hey webseven writer (Ivor Tossell) at the Globe and Mail! Not only are 20 of the placeblogs from Vancouver, Bryght hosts (well to be 100% accurate it's hosted in California at our partners FireBright!) and developed (with a few others) the placeblogger site and we here at Bryght are of course in Vancouver!

FROM globeandmail.com: Think globally, blog locally:

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Last summer, Lisa Williams, a blogger and former analyst who runs just such a site about Watertown, Mass. (www.h2otown.info), made a public bet that she could find 1,000 such sites in the United States alone. And, in conjunction with some of the Internet's leading lights of "citizen journalism," she set about compiling a database of them.

The result went on-line on Jan. 1, and the result is Placeblogger.com, the first comprehensive directory of what she calls "hyper-local" websites. Between the sites that Williams herself catalogued, and sites submitted by visitors, Placeblogger now lists well over 1,000 sites from 38 countries, including 50 in Canada. (And of those, Vancouver alone hosts 20.) The site isn't particularly high-concept: It's a rather modest directory service that's cleanly laid out and easy to browse. Its own blog keeps track of news of interest to "placebloggers," in the hopes of providing support to that community. Placeblogger also keeps track of where each blog is physically located; little interactive maps pinpoint where each one is located in the world.

But the site's biggest achievement might prove to be semantic. Williams didn't coin the term "placeblog" -- that honour, she says, goes to a blogger named Tim Lindgren -- but her work has popularized the term. And in so doing, she's shed a new light on the role that local blogs play in the befuddling new world of journalism.

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