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Who said that waiting at the airport should be an atomic bore? Nonsense. As long as you can use a service like WhileWairport, then waiting for your plane is going to be something productive. This service lets you get real-time information about flights and airlines directly on your mobile, and have that shared with all of your contacts on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Which means that if your plane is going to be late, then you’ll be able to let everybody know about such a thing without having to make a single call, or even send a single SMS. A simple social update will do. And the social scope of this service doesn’t stop at that. No, WhileWairport lets you meet up with people who are in the same airport that you find yourself in. You can look for people who share your same hobbies and interests, and have a much more pleasant wait if your flight’s been delayed. And WhileWairport is useful for finding people to share taxis with, too. Simply make it clear where it is you are supposed to get to, and if there’s any matches then the application will instantly let you know as much. WhileWairport.com In Their Own Words WhileWairport offers services to make the most of the time waiting at the airport. Some Questions About WhileWairport.com Based on the way people are using this service, which airports are the busiest in the world right now?  

Get the most viewed, most popular, most responded to, or most discussed videos in any category, such as Comedy, How To, People, Entertainment, or Music. You can specify a region and a time range. 

WishGenies lets you ask for gift recommendations for those on your shopping list. You'll get great ideas because WishGenies asks people who like the same things as your recipient. 

Wishpot is a free social and mobile shopping service that makes it easy to save and share interesting things you find in stores and online. Collect things you like from wherever and whenever. Share the things you like or want with you friends and family. 

wordonthewire serves up the latest results from a range of trending platforms based on a users single search query. It is intended mainly as a tool to get a quick, latest "scoop" on a topic, and be able to easily share the results. It picks up on your browsing language of choice, and serves up the results in that language, making it really universal (without having to have a unique URL for each language).It focuses on doing all of this one page, and has a responsive layout. 

A wiki where people decide which Flickr photos appear on top on the Google Map. Every zoom brings a collection of photos from that area. 

A Google Gadget that uses the Yahoo Updates API to let you follow your friends who have Yahoo accounts. 

YouTube Cloud is like a tag cloud. Instead of tags, this cloud is based on YouTube video popularity. The bigger the font, the more views that video has had. You can filter the cloud by category and time (today, this week, this month, all time). A video thumbnail preview is shown when hovering over a cloud link. Clicking on the links pops up a dialog to watch the video. 

Advanced search tool for YouTube videos using Google Maps. Query results by category, upload date, time, city and keyword. 

Zimride is a carpool and rideshare matching website that uses Facebook profiles and geocoded addresses. Imagine the possibilities.