Presence

If you haven't checked out Amazon's new Yellow Pages search, with drive-by storefront photos of the locations you are looking for, you need to. Head over to a9.com and take a look.

On a lark, I looked for Yeshiva University. My old apartment building doesn't seem to be listed, but the entrance to the Beis Medrash is. That's definetly R. Harari heading across the street to grab a bite to eat at Time Out, and I believe the gentleman backstage left carries himself like R. Yaakov Werblowsky. I'm guessing this picture was taken on a Friday morning; it looks like the boys on the right are getting ready to go somewhere for Shabbos. Any idea who is loittering by the library? Wacky stuff.

You can upload your own images of locations as well. This is a cool application, and gives you a hint of the type of roles and interactions web and search services can and will provide for us in the future.