I’m a fan of the different cool uses of Google Maps that keep popping up around the internet. ThisNext is a sort of weird shopping guide site that uses a social networking approach to shopping recommendations. It is not clear to me if there is a limitation on what products are covered or particular source that the products recommended are from. A lot of the products seem random. The site sells itself though with the worldwide shopping map that overlays images of and links to products that people are browsing through the site at that time, showing where in the world that person is browsing from. It is fairly addictive to watch. [via Clicked]
Glimpses of the websurfing habits of a computer science professor, obsessive crafter, occasional gamer, and all around geek