App: Rummble

by Matt on 25 December 2009

rummble.com This is something we’ve been after for quite some time: an app that enables you to store details of a place against its location on a map. #ep09

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Pros

X marks the spot

Obviously the cool thing about being able to store information about a place is then being able to recall those details later – preferably when you’re in the area. Thus it becomes your virtual memory for places you visit – particularly good when you live in a city with tons of pubs.

Been using it for a while and it is dead easy to input info, as you can put in as much or as little as you want (free text, tags, URLs, images etc). It will also then throw up other places it thinks you like – yet to work out how good this feature is but we do intend to make use of it.

Cons

A bit lost

Of course it has an iPhone app, which is key for unlocking places when you’re on the move but the location/Google Maps stuff is much better on the desktop app – where it doesn’t seem to have a limit of how much of a map you can view and there aren’t update/refresh issues for seeing stuff you’ve just inputted.

It links with all sorts of social media, which is a great idea for adding another layer of recommendations to the site but it doesn’t need to keep reminding you to ‘connect with Facebook’. Minor quibbles though.

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