I received an email the other day from someone asking about my water photos taken with the Pentax Optio WP. This guy, it turns out, runs a site called 70Percent.org. I casually checked it out, to find that it’s a full social-community site aimed at surfers and water lovers, they call it a “Waverider’s log”. You can add your local breaks to a google map, with lots of nice descriptive features and keep a “sessions” journal that documents your session activity over time (perfect for those of use with creaky memories). And what’s even cooler is that you can decide which parts to show everyone and which parts to keep secret (like that super secret local break that you don’t want to tell anyone about). You can keep a blog on the site ala MySpace and you can even fill out an “Illness Report”, for that relatively famous break you frequent that has the unfortunate downside of being positioned next to a rather large town with no sewage treatment plant. Illness Reports are submitted on an anonymous basis and 70 Percent will use the info to help raise water quality awareness.
All in all, a very cool site. Great ideas involved. The site is still in Beta, but if you’re a wave lover and want to network with people who share you passion, this site is for you.
Thanks Ed for the info. This site looks very good, the concept is good. It is not only focused on adding surf spots, i think the illness report is an interesting feature as well.
Besides de google maps imagery, that we also added a while ago, this has social network features and it is very easy to use and navigate. A good product, yes.