Wikihood is a mobile travel guide designed for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.  With just a few clicks you’ll get a list of interesting places around O’ahu with images, distance and wiki articles.

At a glance you see:
- which locations are closest to you
- what are the most important locations around you
- what do others find interesting in the proximity (15,000+ ratings)
- how do I get to a location using the map

Wikihood intelligently organizes Wikipedia information for any place in the world using advanced semantic data mining.

Within a few clicks you not only get access to all the locations around you, but also the vast information related to these locations categorized by “persons” and “culture/buildings”.

Visit the iTunes App Store for Free and Fee versions and begin exploring O’ahu in a whole new way!

You’ll likely bring your car and some of your most treasured valuables with you to O’ahu, but your relocation is sure to involve furnishing your new place in paradise.  Craigslist.com will be an invaluable resource for picking up new items, and a new local online resource called Cathy’s Marketplace will help you locate even more treasures.

Noted as “the premium online marketplace for gently used and new home furnishings at fabulous prices”, the site lets you shop, sell and even learn more about home decorating. CathysMarketplace.com is brought to you by RSVPstyle.

Check it out @ CathysMarketplace.com.

Hawaii Emergency Preparedness Guide

National Weather Service Forecast Hawaii

Ready America Family Emergency Plan

Hawaii State Civil Defense

View all of the “stories of Hawaii” at HVCB’s stories website.

Waikiki, Honolulu Magazine’s online insider’s guide to Waikiki is the perfect resource for learning more about Oahu’s busiest, coolest and most photographed neighborhood.  Tourists and residents work and play side by side here along one of the most famous beaches in the world.

Waikiki’s many hotels include historic hotels such as the Moana Surfrider and the Royal Hawaiian.  Such landmarks were later joined by world renowned hotels like the Hilton Hawaiian Village, the Halekulani, the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, the Sheraton Waikiki and many others.

Numerous residential high-rise condominiums grace the Waikiki skyline as well, home to Oahu newcomers and long time residents alike.  To learn more about the 400+ condominiums currently for sale in Waikiki (from a $100,000 hotel-room-like “condo-tel” to a 5 million dollar penthouse), visit HawaiiHomeSearcher.com and specify “Waikiki” and “Residential – Condominium” in your search criteria.

Along with Waikiki beach itself, other one-of-a-kind public places include the Ali Wai Harbor, Fort de Russy Military Reservation, Kuhio Beach Park, Kapiolani Park, The Honolulu Zoo and the Waikiki Aquarium.

Waikiki’s resort status lends itself to a number of vacation themed websites; none better than Waikiki.com, which promises to show you where to play, stay, eat, meet, shop and save.  Sounds good to me.  Aloha!

Elvis Presley made television and entertainment history with his Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii – Via Satellite concert special.  Performed in Honolulu on January 14, 1973 at 12:30 AM Hawaiian time, the ground breaking event was beamed live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries, and was seen on a delayed basis in approximately thirty European countries.  A reported one billion viewers tuned in, undoubtedly making the show the single-most watched concert of all time.   To commemorate the event, a life-sized statue of Elvis Presley was unveiled July 27, 2007 at the site of the concert, commissioned by the television network TV Land as a tribute to the concert.  Visit TV Land’s landmark dedication site.

So many choices… Alan Wong’s in Moiliili, Chuck’s in Waikiki, or maybe Yudi’s in Manoa?  We’re talking restaurants, of course.  Such choices are made easier thanks to The Hawaii Restaurant Association’s (HRA) new web site, myalohavibe.com.  Each member restaurant is free to create an entry for their establishment and can use the free tools provided to create and maintain their page or for a fee, take advantage of professional tools for an even better look. A sort of FaceBook or MySpace for restaurants, myalohavibe.com is fast becoming a great resource for information about all kinds of dining-out in Hawaii.

The Eat Like A Local section is great way to get learn about the exotic new tastes and flavors you’ll soon learn to love in your new Hawaiian home.

HVCB tapped Island celebrity chef Alan Wong for a feature video on the topic:

Your collection of Honolulu favorite bookmarked sites will not be complete without the Pacific Business News City Guide for Honolulu.  While targeted to business travelers, items like top restaurants, city attractions and a section called “cocktails” contain valuable information for newcomer or kama’aina alike.  Check it out.