Qype - Live and tell

Tourists, how we love them. Really. But sometimes they really can be annoying. (Yes, we know we’re just as bad when we all dive onto the Costa Del Sol and mess it up each summer.) We’ve got a bit of a poll going so you can have your say. What annoys you most about Tourists in London?

If Facebook is anything to go by, lots of tourists are likely to get punched in the head if they carry on walking too slowly down Oxford Street, but surely some of you Qypers get more annoyed with people who stand on the left of the escalator? Siany really gets wound up when people stop at the top of escalators to have a chat, or read their A-Z, but that’s just her.

Don’t worry, we love everyone who wants to come to London! And we’ve even been tempted by those open top buses ourselves. But surely we can vent a little bit too? It’s just a bit of fun after all. And next month, maybe we can run a poll about what annoys tourists about London locals… we bet there’s a few things there too.

Flickr image from Brenda Annerl’s photostream.

Are users of some social networks fed up of being ‘bitten’, ‘poked’ and having sheep thrown at them? That’s the question put forward by the Beeb’s tech programme BBC Click this week.

According to the programme a new breed of social networks are closing in on the likes of Facebook and MySpace, offering something more than “just a glorified friend finder”.

The BBC very nicely chose to include Qype in their group of ’socially useful sites’ and yours truly even makes a brief appearance in the programme to explain a little bit about how Qype works.

The feature looks at the rise of practical, people-powered sites as well as asking the usual questions about the possible abuse of user-generated content (owners hyping up their businesses for example), and the future of data portability across different networks.

You can watch the whole programme on this page (or just read the text version if you prefer). The story also made the front age of Digg so there’s a conversation going on on that site too.

As always, let us know what you think in the comments.