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From: John Noller (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 18:51:18 EDT
The purpose of inviting viewers is privacy. Blogs allow uninvited viewer to comment or spam your site, and Sailtrac packages all the various components in to one set of unique custom pages. Shiptrak and Yotreps are public pages as well so anyone can view your location. With Sailtrac you control the information in a private manner. Why should someone have to navigate around the web to see various bits and pieces of information when it can all be viewed from one central webpage.
You should have control over your personal information you disseminate.
Sailtrac helps you share information with your friends and the people you want have view it. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, your own custom Google mapping and location information, pictures, video, journal entries, or special interests. You control with whom you share that information through the privacy settings on the My Profile and My Friends pages so there is no uninvited viewing, no spaming, and no junkmail to deal with later.
Sailtrac works via winlink or sailmail, and accepts text "journal" entries as well that update your pages and maps automatically without being shoreside. You don't need to wait to hit an internet cafe to update information. Just Cc the on any QTH report you file or send the administrator your log, text, or journal updates. Since winlink or sailmail do not support photo at this time those can't be added to your pages this way but with a digital camera phone or other wireless device it is easy to do when a signal is available and you have enable your own carrier's data package. Sailtrac is integrating a weather componet thru a relationship with Buoyweather at no charge that will take you position report and pull back the current date for that date and time Sailtrac is adding a task scheduler that will allow you to notify your friends when position reports and weather information are added remotely and an e-mail will notify them of update to
your pages. The homepage displays the photo you choose, your most recent position report, vessel name, date of entry and will incorporate weather and text you submit in minutes of receipt and notify your "friends" list - an added measure of safety and security when aboard and abroad. As you say there are many ways to go about it but some of my friends and family are not that computer or Internet saavy so being able to see it all in one place without viewing spam added by someone else makes it easy and painless.
reflectionsiv <> wrote:
Hi
There seems to be many different ways to do this. Proeviously I have
maintained a web site that I posted as I got to an internet cafe or a
wi-fi signal.
We are about to kick off on a major passage from Borneo to Australia
and this time the approach is two-fold. Using our HF-email Winlink I
will send position reports to QTH which has an excellent position plot
page using Google maps. To send passage notes I send messages to a blog.
The same blog works well with Picassa for uploading photos and blog
entries when online. I am now seeing less and less the need for an
actual web site.
This is simple to do, and for our 'watchers', its just a matter for
them to go to either our web site or the blog.
I looked at sailtrac.com and would have considered it but the need to
invite 'watchers' did not suit me.
regards
Colin
www.reflectionsiv.com
--- In , Christine Kling <ck at dot dot dot > wrote:
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> I am currently on a summer cruise and I'm really enjoying using
> SailBlogs. They have a free basic service, but I have paid for the
> premium service and I can have my position plotted on the map, upload
> photos and movies, and best of all, I don't have to write the same
> thing over and over to keep family and friends in the loop as to what
> is going on with me. They can even leave comments on my blog.
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> http://www.sailblogs.com/member/kling/
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> Fair winds!
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> Christine Kling
> http://www.christinekling.com
> author of WRECKERS' KEY, fourth book in the series about tugboat
> captain Seychelle Sullivan
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