It happens to everyone. You’re traveling in parts unknown, when someone in the car needs a bathroom. Looking at the car window you see only trees or fields; no sign of a bathroom. But now you have help. Over at SitorSquat.com you can enter a location and find the nearest public bathroom. It even offers bathroom updates (open or closed) and ratings – sit or squat.
If you don’t have a network on the road, you can get the mobile app for iPhone/iTouch, Blackberry, and android phones. Or you can send an SMS text message “sitorsquat” to DOTCOM (368266).
For those who love public bathrooms, there is even a community filled mostly with bathroom humor.
One of the challenges of bookmarking favorite resources is organizing them. Using the “Bookmarks” or “Favorites” in your browser is limited by using folders which can become as unwieldy as more and more links are added. Resources such as Del.icio.us offer more help through the use of tags. But Pearltree offers visual organization much like a mind map.
Pearltrees are topical trees that outline your favorite resources in a way that make sense to you. Each bookmark becomes a pearl within a tree. For example, you can have a PearlTree on dieting with branches related recipes, exercise, videos and more. Organizing is easy with drag-and-drop functions. Peartree also offers a Firefox extension, bookmarklet, or Twitter option to add to your tree.
Pearltree also offers a social aspect by connecting with others who have topic trees similar to yours. This option allows to access resources you may not know about as well as provide resources to others.
Pearltree is free and is worth a look if your bookmarks and social bookmarking feels to disorganized and cluttered.
