Zapatag.com on WCBD

Technology commentator “PC Mike” produced this fun segment on “revenge sites” for NBC affiliate WCBD in Charleston, SC. Zapatag.com is featured!

Link Love

Over the last couple of weeks, there have been some great write-ups of Zapatag.com. Here are a few of them, though certainly there have been many more!

• Download Squad: Zap-a-tag lets you publicly shame bad motorists
• Autoblog: Zapatag lets you shame bad drivers online
• Geekologie: Zapatag Calls Out Bad Drivers
• Google Maps Mania: Report Bad Drivers on Google Maps
• CenterNetworks: Zapatag Helps You Track Reckless Drivers
• Switched: Report Bad Drivers Online at Zapatag
• sub5zero: Bad Drivers Beware – Web 2.0 Taddling With Zap-A-Tag Puts Idiots on Blast
• Roadtrippings: Zapatag: The Wall of Shame
• Pixelated Geek: Zapatag – A way to call out bad drivers on the internets
• GPS Obsessed: Zapatag lets you map your road rage online, saves you from an assault charge
• Coolness Roundup: Zapatag, where dumb drivers get publicly humiliated
• SLABUP.com: Zapatag Calls Out Bad Drivers
• PriceWheels Blog: Zapatag Gives You a Public Outlet for Roadrage
• The Tech Desk: Zapatag Lets You Passively Express Your Road Rage

Thanks for the reviews and thoughts!

Baby Pictures

I was finally organizing some of the files scattered throughout my hard drive, and came across the below image. I think it was the first mock-up of Zapatag.com, thrown together in the spring of 2007, soon after I’d decided I liked the name better than Streetr.com.

I’d been on Twitter for a few months, so you can see how the “big form front and center” was already set in my mind. But I’d devoted most of the homepage to “featured” content (the old-fashioned editorial guy in me), and put the activity feed in the right sidebar. I also had more prominent images… something I’m still pondering for the site. What stands out the most for me, of course, is the stereotypical turquoise-and-pink Flickr-inspired color scheme.