TodayFeels.com
June 14th, 2008 | Published in Thoughts
TodayFeels.com is a little website I’ve been putting together in my off hours and will be talking about in more detail today at MobileCampSF2. It’s a site that gives you a weather forecast relative to what it felt like the day before. So instead of just telling you highs and lows and the percentage chance it might rain, it says that today “is going to be a little warmer than yesterday” or that it’s “going to be wetter and colder than yesterday”. The idea is to create something more human and personal to you and your experience.
The site is still in early development, but check it out and let me know what you think. The biggest issue most people will encounter is that it might not work in your area. Right now, the service only covers about 25% of the zip codes in the United States, so if you’re international or in an area not supported, send me feedback with the area you’d like to see included. Eventually, the service will expand to the rest of the US and beyond, but if you ask for coverage in your area, I’ll be sure to give that top priority.
Text TODAYFEELS to 41411
In addition, to the website, there are several other ways you can use Todayfeels.com, including:
- text ‘TODAYFEELS’ to 41411. You can also include your zip code as well to get an immediate response back. For instance, sending ‘TODAYFEELS 94114′ to 41411 will tell you how today feels in San Francisco.
- for newer Nseries/S60 phones, you can download a widget (requires WRT)
- add it to your iGoogle page
- add it to your NetVibes page
- if you have some other widget, blog or place you’d like to include TodayFeels, let me know and I’ll see what I can do there as well.
Next Steps
I’m going to keep adding functionality to the site, based a large part on user feedback. Also, it’s pretty obvious I’m not a designer, so any design contributions are completely welcome! Finally, I wanted to give an API Shout Out to the open source libraries and free web services on which TodayFeels.com is built, specifically: