So yesterday the Toronto CS community celebrated International Couch Surfing Day 2008 and in true CSTO fashion there was a gathering of epic proportions.
THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
For more than five years, the CouchSurfing project has been changing the lives of travelers by helping them make connections with locals, their couches, their friends, and their homes.
For many of us, it has revolutionized the way we travel, giving us the traveling experience from a local’s perspective, rather than relying on generic tourist information, and allowing us to forge friendships with people around the world.
On Thursday, 12 June 2008, join CouchSurfers around the globe in celebrating this member-created holiday.
WHAT?:
- An occasion to party and celebrate our unique and wonderful project that keeps brining so much and so many wonderful people to our lives, *simultaneously* in every city and country in the world, and then share our experiences!! Once more demonstrating how we make the word better, one couch at a time.
So a whole stack of Toronto CSr’s and guests packed the second floor front room of the Tequila Bookworm - Bookstore and Cafe at 512 Queen Street West for what was without doubt a joyous success.
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Comment I submitted via the TTC website online comment form just now:
Having travelled to Sydney, Australia recently I noticed something that I thought was really great about the Cityrail system in relation to weekly and monthly passes.
In Sydney passes can be purchased on any day of the month and the machine will calculate the expiry 7 days or 30/31 days from the date and time of purchase. This is really flexible, and in contrast to the current TTC system, does not limit the customer’s purchasing options. Logically it makes sense to offer a weekly or monthly pass from the date and time of purchase, not from the beginning of the month only or the beginning of the week only.
I would encourage TTC to investigate the possibility of implementing a similar system for purchasing weekly and monthly passes.
I have also had feedback from visitors to Toronto who suggested that a weekend pass would be a good idea, instead of having to purchase two daily passes.
I love the new website design, can’t wait to see it go live!
Regards,
AC
Fingers crossed that the message goes to somebody who cares.
So my girlfriend was asking me what the big deal is with Flickr and why almost every photographer and their dog is using it. This was after she had uploaded 198 pics and found it not so user-friendly (she still hasn’t worked out how to re-order pictures in her photostream so if anybody knows please advise).
For a first time user I have to agree it’s not that intuitive. I think the limitation of the Flickr free account can give people a negative impression of the capabilities of Flickr (side note: she’s actually a Rogers customer but can’t seem to get the free upgrade to Pro deal working. She even tried to contact support and was met with a dead end). It’s a lot easier to sort and manage images with a pro account that’s for sure.
Anyways I just founda nice comparison online between Flickr and Picasa systems. Check it out here. I agree with the blogger’s comment that Flickr is currently ahead when it comes to maturity of product. Give it time and I’m sure Google will have Picasa as a pretty strong opponent to Flickr.