Comments on: The couch tour is on!

The couch tour is on!

mathowie — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:42:43 -0800

I love websites and communities that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the internet. Couch Surfing is just about the most useful site in the world for a wandering college student. You can quickly see what countries offer a couch, there are profiles for each participant with past testimonials and friends lists, and you can even map your travels and where you want to go.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:23:08 -0800

[This is AWESOME.]

By: majcher

majcher — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:33:35 -0800

I feel like some of these couch surfers might be sending mixed messages.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:17:16 -0800

wow, I have wanted to design a site like this forEVER. I am so happy it exists.... signing up now....

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:22:17 -0800

now *this* is what social networking is for. awesome, awesome, awesome. thanks, Matt!

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:26:31 -0800

Heh. Favorite quotes from majcher 1st. link: "I enjoy all the physical stuff. I do mean ALL!!"; 2nd link: "I have an female roommate,2 cats, and a .22 with a great aim." And boy, doesn't Angelina Jolie have better things to do then house couch-crashers?

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:32:58 -0800

Saw this linked on tribe.net a while ago and, like jessamyn, thought: ooh, somebody FINALLY did it! cool!

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:28:08 -0800

I've actually been developing something similar to this, only using flash instead. Of course, the application is different (travel/trip based) and I'm still a long way off from having the site "operational", but you can check it out if you're interested here. An example of the map functions can be seen here. Please be gentle on that good bandwidth.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:56:49 -0800

A lurker would like to see mention of http://www.globalfreeloaders.com/ which is, in his words, "AFAIK, the first free accom trading place - and it remains free".

By: Recockulous

Recockulous — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:29:18 -0800

Yeah what a good idea... spend the night at a stranger's house who you met over the internet.