"Urbantic": A Great New Community Website To Learn About Places and People

My friend Michael Bean, who's firm Forio Business Simulations hosts the Sports Business Simulations website, has developed an exciting new website called "Urbantic." It's at http://urbantic.com

The idea behind Urbantic is very simple: to allow people to learn about places and people. It's kind of a cross between community sites like Ryze and Friendster and your common restaurant or city review website. All you do is set up a profile on yourself and type in comments about your favorite places.

You will then see a list of other favorite places posted by others than are near that venue. You can also see who's going to those places, and an automatic Google map of the location of the destination is visible. In other words, anyone who may have made a comment about that place will be added to a list associated with that venue along with a location map. It's really cool.

"Places" can be neighborhoods, bus stops, transit statiions, bars, ...you name it. It's a pretty habit forming device. Check it out. I think it's going to become a very huge place to be online.

For example, there's actually a review of the Oakland Coliseum.