Interests & location

Following up to what we talked about briefly last night about an alternative for Meetup, I found this module:

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http://drupal.org/project/interests
Interests
Taxonomy · Modules
Agileware - May 2, 2007 - 02:11

Allows users to select taxonomy terms from vocabularies as 'interests'. Each time they visit a node with that taxonomy term applied to it the interest level bumps up one, or creates a new interest for them. Interests can be added/removed manually on an administration/user level or by the user itself.

Integrates with Tagadelic for a 'Suggested Tags' cloud as a block

Has a browse interests page level that lists users with similar interests in order of the most counts for the term, latest blog entries of interest and then any other nodes that have matching interest tags.

It does not integrate into the users profile at this stage, thus not allowing them to select interests upon user registration.
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I think hooking it together with a Google Maps thing and maybe an Events module could make a really nice Meetup alternative. Maybe we could put it together as a group project.