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Re:A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area by staunch on Sunday August 19, 2007 @08:43AM (#44072)
How about a little custom(?) microformat on our "about" sections that you fetch and refresh every X days? That solves the authentication and updating problems. That's not my idea either. It's what the Perlmonks starting doing maybe 7 years ago.

<!-- location:latitude=34.05.14,longitude=-84.16.05 -->

http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=BigMonkMap

More inspiration from the Perl Mongers:

http://www.pm.org/groups/map.html

Re:A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area by jey on Sunday August 19, 2007 @12:38PM (#44101)
Good idea. I've added it to my user page, except that I am using degrees rather than degrees.minutes.seconds. (Doesn't that make more sense?)

There might be a bit of a problem though: there's no easy way to enumerate user IDs except by crawling the threads. Maybe for simplicity we should still have to add our usernames to HackrTrackr if we want to be included.

Re:A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area by dottertrotter on Sunday August 19, 2007 @07:23PM (#44171)
I think this combination is a great idea. Thanks guys. I'll rework some stuff to make this possible. I really appreciate all the suggestions that have been made over the past 24 hours. I thought only a few people where going to sign up and already 130 have submitted their user names. Also based upon the suggestions, I'm going to add a location based forum, as well as rework the interface to show the selected user's information in a pop up bubble, with a link to the state list instead of instantly redirecting people. Thanks, again for the suggestions and please feel free to keep them coming.
Re:A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area by joshwa on Sunday August 19, 2007 @09:05AM (#44078)