twistedgenes.com – Blogs by Rakesh Gupta

Travelling, excursions, adventures who doesn’t like them . A vast chunk of population likes to freak out on  small adventurous trips on weekends. The reason for this drive is to get rid of the mundane and mechanical cycle of office-home-offce and destress oneself. But the major question that arises is where to go? why this one and why not that one ? what kind of place is it ( historic, nature, modern etc).   How do we decide on this, googling and talking to colleagues. After all this exercise of mining tonnes of pages and talking to bunch of friends, the decision becomes more difficult. Differences of opinion starts among the group.

Huntplace as the name suggests let’s you hunt for the place where you want to go . It basically aggregates/mines the data from resourceful and rich web applications like Flickr, Youtube, Wiki, etc. and makes your life easier. Instead of stumbling upon those stale and old sites, get the data from the popular and reliable sources. It is a mashup that calls the pulic APIs and let’s u explore your travel destination based on the content received.

The whole idea is in a very early phase and has been implemented. There are bunch of enhancements and ramifications that can be done.