Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Yet Another Opencaching.com Update
There seems to be yet another update on the opencaching.com website. Below is a picture of the page, it is in German and it translates to "Soon, under a tree stump near you: Free, open, in your language!"
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Garmin's opencaching.com site Update
Found this on a German site about Garmin's opencaching.com site, I had to translate it to english and it had a screen shot of the site that was up for only a short time.
"Great excitement in the German and international geocaching blog scene. For a few hours, on Monday evening from about 20 GMT Clock Garmin's new platform www.opencaching.com online. Shortly after 23 clock then the fuss was over and the page no longer accessible. The short time to see what you could have looked good in, it was already cached registrations and publications possible and the basic functions seemed to work perfectly already. The import of their own discoveries and their own caches as GPX files was already possible.
The fast shutdown of the site suggests that there is someone with the release of a little action premature. However, it is assumed that the page will be available again soon. Then surely accompanied by a large media contingent and promotional activities.
Long-term caches may recall that once belonged to the domain www.opencaching.com Opencaching project. She was even the first domain of the project. After various disputes and lack of tangible results, the interest dwindled to an alternative platform, thus leaving the domain owner contract - intentionally or unintentionally - coast again. 2004, then fell to a domain domaingrabbers the chance and use the secure domain. It should be by September 2010 show the domain to take a new owner could. Garmin acquired the domain for an undisclosed amount. The last known desired retail price of the former owner but was $ 10,000.
The Garmin plans to pursue its own platform, has been speculated in various circles for months. A few weeks ago I heard this "rumor" for the first time, though, we could muster little tangible information.
Garmin That would start its own platform, but is ultimately less surprising than it seems at first glance. Already after the Wherigo-flop and Ground peaks shift to the recommendation of other GPSr had the suspicion that between Garmin and Groundspeak not the very best may be the ratio. Thus, prior to 4 weeks from the Garmin GPS "GPS Devices Featured" area located on geocaching.com. At least since the removal of Groundspeak logos from Garmin devices (with the publication of the last firmware update) and the purchase of the domain opencaching.com should all signs point to confrontation.
Groundspeak for the situation but it could be far more precarious than for Garmin. We can not afford Garmin and Garmin users to 'interfere' in any way - Garmin, however - as the market leader in mobile GPS devices - has sufficient market power and sufficient budget to press their own platform in the market " . 'This is certainly the biggest difference between Opencaching.com and free projects like Opencaching.de (and the other country pages).
Whether it be enough to eventually peak at Ground depends on market position significantly from scratch, not least of which sums Garmin is willing to invest. Also how to user requests received will not be undecidable."
"Great excitement in the German and international geocaching blog scene. For a few hours, on Monday evening from about 20 GMT Clock Garmin's new platform www.opencaching.com online. Shortly after 23 clock then the fuss was over and the page no longer accessible. The short time to see what you could have looked good in, it was already cached registrations and publications possible and the basic functions seemed to work perfectly already. The import of their own discoveries and their own caches as GPX files was already possible.
The fast shutdown of the site suggests that there is someone with the release of a little action premature. However, it is assumed that the page will be available again soon. Then surely accompanied by a large media contingent and promotional activities.
Long-term caches may recall that once belonged to the domain www.opencaching.com Opencaching project. She was even the first domain of the project. After various disputes and lack of tangible results, the interest dwindled to an alternative platform, thus leaving the domain owner contract - intentionally or unintentionally - coast again. 2004, then fell to a domain domaingrabbers the chance and use the secure domain. It should be by September 2010 show the domain to take a new owner could. Garmin acquired the domain for an undisclosed amount. The last known desired retail price of the former owner but was $ 10,000.
The Garmin plans to pursue its own platform, has been speculated in various circles for months. A few weeks ago I heard this "rumor" for the first time, though, we could muster little tangible information.
Garmin That would start its own platform, but is ultimately less surprising than it seems at first glance. Already after the Wherigo-flop and Ground peaks shift to the recommendation of other GPSr had the suspicion that between Garmin and Groundspeak not the very best may be the ratio. Thus, prior to 4 weeks from the Garmin GPS "GPS Devices Featured" area located on geocaching.com. At least since the removal of Groundspeak logos from Garmin devices (with the publication of the last firmware update) and the purchase of the domain opencaching.com should all signs point to confrontation.
Groundspeak for the situation but it could be far more precarious than for Garmin. We can not afford Garmin and Garmin users to 'interfere' in any way - Garmin, however - as the market leader in mobile GPS devices - has sufficient market power and sufficient budget to press their own platform in the market " . 'This is certainly the biggest difference between Opencaching.com and free projects like Opencaching.de (and the other country pages).
Whether it be enough to eventually peak at Ground depends on market position significantly from scratch, not least of which sums Garmin is willing to invest. Also how to user requests received will not be undecidable."
Friday, November 26, 2010
Opencaching.us - First in CT
I placed the First cache in Connecticut through www.opencaching.us I am just waiting to see how long it takes someone to find it. Here is a link to the cache Close To HomeGarmins opencaching.com Update
It seems there is a small change in the www.opencaching.com website. They added a blue character that pops out from the left it you leave the page open. A mascott maybe? we will have to wait to see what develops.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Garmin's New Site?
This is very interesting, Garmin started a site called opencaching.com but it is not up and running yet. Rumor has it that Garmin is designing their own Geocaching site to compete with Geocaching.com This would explain the icon change on Garmin devices with the Geocaching feature, it used to be the icon for Geocaching.com but no wit is just a caching icon. I can see that when you log onto the new opencaching.com site, the traffic is being monitored, maybe they are just trying to see how much interest it is creating. I will have to add the site to my watch site and wait for it to change to see the next step.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Happy 10/10/10
Don't forget to find and log a cache today, as part of Groundspeak's 10th anniversary celebration/promotion on 10/10/10
Geocaching is running so slow today, maybe it had to do with the promotion.
Friday, July 16, 2010
TTMTD-24
TTMTD-24
| A cache by games52 | Hidden : 07/02/2010 | |
Size:  (Micro) | Difficulty:  | Terrain: |
Log:
July 16 by The Hekawi Tribe (238 found)A quick easy find, TFTC
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Listened to my first live Geocaching Podcast
Geocaching Podcast
Really interesting, its a live podcast with chat. There is a new podcast every Tuesday @ 9, check it out.
Really interesting, its a live podcast with chat. There is a new podcast every Tuesday @ 9, check it out.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Our New Cache
We adopted:
In Memory of Memorial Bridge
| A cache by Banditlead&Buttercup606 adopted - The Hekawi Tribe | Hidden : 10/23/2007 | |
| Size: (Micro) | Difficulty:  | Terrain: |
Log:
July 12 by The Hekawi Tribe (237 found)As the proud new owner of this cache, I stopped by today and replaced the cache. I modified a container that will hopefully muggles will leave alone.
Good Luck!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
TTMTD-38
TTMTD-38
| A cache by games52 | Hidden : 07/02/2010 | |
| Size: (Micro) | Difficulty: | Terrain: |
Log:
July 10 by The Hekawi Tribe (236 found)Looked for about 5 minutes and we were approached by "C-Town" security
and wanted to know what we were looking for in their tree. Tried to explain but they were looking at us like we were crazy and asked us to stop 
Cache owner might think about moving this one.
TTMTD-44
TTMTD-44
| A cache by games52 | Hidden : 07/02/2010 | |
| Size: (Micro) | Difficulty: | Terrain: |
Log:
July 10 by The Hekawi Tribe (236 found)Another quick find, it was in the first place we looked.
SL TFTC
TTMTD-43
TTMTD-43
| A cache by games52 | Hidden : 07/02/2010 | |
| Size: (Micro) | Difficulty: | Terrain: |
Log:
July 10 by The Hekawi Tribe (236 found)A nice quick find with no muggles around.
SL TFTC
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Great Wall of Wallingford
The Great Wall of Wallingford
| A cache by RRKM | Hidden : 07/01/2010 | |
Size:  (Other) | Difficulty:  | Terrain: |
| (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest) | ||
Log:
July 4 by The Hekawi Tribe (234 found)I was searching for this one for a little while when Jake-2687 showed up with his kids and good thing because I was just going to give up and then Harvick29 came up with the find
.Cool container and nice hide.
SL TFTC
Thursday, July 1, 2010
New Format for the Blog
I have decided to start posting the cache info along with our post for that log, it makes it much easier for me to post and I think it will be cool to look back and read our post.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
FRSP - Trail Side
FRSP - Trail Side
| A cache by Firefighter Skippy | Hidden : 06/03/2010 | |
Size:  (Small) | Difficulty: | Terrain:  |
Log
June 29 by The Hekawi Tribe (233 found)My daughter and I set out to find a few caches in the area despite the heat and humidity, lots of bugs but that did not stop us.
Nice camo, when my daughter saw the cache she said "I'm not touching that"
TNLN SL TFTC
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