3 Sources To Find Out What To Do This Weekend.
AH! What to do this weekend
Don’t lie and tell me you haven’t typed it into Google.
I know I have (does that make me lame?) Anyway, regardless of my additions to Google search trends, I’ve come up with a short list of places that I search in order to find stuff to do on the weekend.*
Source #1: Twitter
First, you can always use third party twitter applications to find out what people are doing in and around your city. Try Trazzler, a site that recommends hand-picked trips unique to your location and “Travel Personality” (it’s kicked off via Facebook Connect). Plus our boys/twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams are founding advisers.
Trazzler Buzz list is determined via Twitter updates on certain destinations. If you want to see what activity is trending now, check it out. But what adds value is the site itself sends you directly to the website/location of the place being mentioned in the tweet itself.
Source #2 E-mail Newsletters (but cool ones)
Urbandaddy is a free (and very uncorporate) daily digest of cool restaurant, club, event and shopping recommendations based on either the local or national level. Plus you can sometimes get free invites to openings. If you live in any of the following 11 cities, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Jetset, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, National, New York, San Francisco and Washington DC, you’re lucky, because you have your own UrbanDaddy edition.
Thrilllist, similar to Urban Daddy, is another digest filled with (oftentimes) really random and awesome stuff that’s going on around you. Again, you’re lucky if you live in any of these cities… New York offers essential, city-centric info about NYC. LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, the Hamptons, Austin, Seattle and Washington, DC. If you’re more of a “nation” event watcher, you’re in luck, as a national edition is offered.
Source #3: Online/Social Travel Guides
I recently stumbled upon Schmap as one source of information for social-based travel information that you can download to your mobile device. You can download city guides.
*See, the techyness likes to have fun, too.