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Looking for Wii owners
If you're the only one of your friends to be lucky enough to have a Wii in the living room, your Mii plaza may look a little bare. Not to fret, though -- potential Wii friends are only a few clicks away, thanks to MapWii.com. Within the next few months, we expect to see dozens of these sites, designed to trade those unwieldy Wii codes with likely friends, but MapWii.com is doing something others may not, and that's flagging Wii owners by location. Looking for people in the Netherlands, for instance? Here you go.It's an interesting site just to surf, and it's been optimized for use with the Wii browser, but we half wish it wasn't necessary. Fanboys we may be, but that doesn't mean we blindly love everything Nintendo does, and Ninty's online systems sometimes want to make us bang our faces into the desk. But it could be worse ... we're just happy, in the end, to be online at all!
Wii 'acquaintances' made easy with Google Maps
MapWii.com is a Wii-inspired application of Google Maps that makes locating and making potential Wii friends manageable. Even better, MapWii has been designed for Wii's Opera browser. To join, you'll have to give up your friend code, nickname, city, country, and zip (all additional information is optional).The database is limited in its current state, both in number of registrants and scope. You may find yourself with a Wii full of friends, but it's impossible to know which ones will stick without much trial and error. In this case, real-world location isn't as important as play-style or genre preference. A few more fields of required data and MapWii could go a long way toward hastening the 'matchmaking' process.See also: Web sites step up to connect Wii owners
