Blue Puddle

Blue Puddle software takes advantage of the Internet's distributed authorship capabilities to create maps that draw on users' collective memory and subjective experience of a city. Users can create a map and post images, text, video and audio to points on that map. Other users can make mash-ups by combining two or more maps to create interesting hybrids.

I quite like the Free Electricity application, a map of all of the electricity outlets outside that you could plug into to to project videos or have an alleyway DJ party.

When i asked Zack Denfeld more information about the project he wrote me that maps in the works include:

- identifying and documenting edible plants in Ann Arbor and having a banquet using some of those plants

- making a guided walking tour of the houses of white collar criminals and other corporate ne'er do-wells living in the detroit suburbs, with suggestions on gifts to give them called Angry Planet tours

- 10 minute tour - Ten 1-minute stops on an all day tour of a rock and roll band. The Earthwurms will distribute a tour schedule including geocordinates and times. The tour tshirt will be available at the end of the night.

Developed by a team of students at the University of Michigan: Zack Denfeld, Nika Smith, Brent Fogt, and Kyle Mulka. Check the Blue Puddle blog.