Twitter is super light on a mobile while www is slow and heavy. Also a real time beach report is better than a wind station IMHO.
Yeah I wasn't having a go at the Twitter idea as I can see the benefits, I was having a go at the people asking Stehs if they could get his updates on their mobile (this pre dated the twitter idea)...and they could, as 'clunky' as it may have been.
I'll add though I think people could be a bit more proactive. I have an android phone and have one whole home screen dedicated to forecasts/obs. I just scroll across to that page, hit a few bookmarks/widgets/shorcuts sitting there and boom, in <30s I can determine whether to head to the beach or not, like a boss.
Once again not having ago at the twitter thing, having updates 'from the ground' are better than almost anything.
Carry on ^_^
... and the wind meter average + peak are helpful but don't paint the full picture. Eg the time I mentioned when it was 10kts half the time and 30kts the other - impossible for windsurfing, I wouldn't have bothered going down if I knew.
I did try to post to twitter (I can't bring myself to say 'tweet' - not yet at least) when I last went out, but my phone was playing up. That was the day it was gusting to 43kts in Sydney - I would have said bring your 3.3's!
Took me a while to get it sorted on my phone, so thought it might be helpful for others with Android phones to list out my steps.
1 - download Tweetdeck App, and set it up with your twitter ID etc
2 - click the "+" button in the app, then search for #nswwind
3 - once it comes up showing the tweets, click "Add Column", then go back to home page
4 - Pan right across to the fourth Tweetdeck screen (home, then Me, Direct Messages, then #nswwind), then go to Menu, Column Settings
5 - set up the Notification settings (notify, light, sound, vibrate) so that it will let you know when someone posts something.
Might be the same for iphone/blackberry if using tweetdeck?
Hope this helps,
Cheers
James
LOL, me too, I'll post.
Just found a site with a very similar concept:http://weendy.com
Basically it allows you to do wind reports, take video etc.. from your smartphone. You can link it into your twitter account so that it automatically posts your reports to twitter.
Not dissimilar to what we are trying to do with this idea.
Must admit it looks good, not many reports on there yet (none from near by anyway) but I suppose the value of this is when lots of people use it.
I'll give it a try, but given the conditions recently may take a while before I use it 
Looks good if you use an Iphone!
I'll be tweeting happily if I ever get to the beach for a sail. This winters been pretty crap for weekend sailing. 
Hi guys
I posted in the speed place and they said there had been a thread here.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps/Twitter-map/
I've built this site and I'm hoping that people will adopt the hashtag "#windsurflaunch" globally.
I did it to see whether it could be done, rather than to become rich and famous... so if anyone wants to use the code on their own site then that's cool (on the condition that they don't change the hashtag)
accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=jotspot&passive=1209600&continue=https://sites.google.com/site/windsurfmap/&followup=https://sites.google.com/site/windsurfmap/
Cheers
Stuart
Different but both great ideas. Ginger pom, any chance of a shorter tag?
Hoping the twitter idea will kick in during the spring. Challenge may be that when there is wind people want to get out ASAP so we might get more tweets about no wind than about wind.
