I decided to make my Favorite Places web app (that was the basis for the UMass Favorite Places site) open source. You can now find it on my GitHub page:
https://github.com/alexschreyer/My-Favorite-Places
In doing so, I made a bunch of improvements and squashed some bugs. Don’t forget to look at the readme.txt file. Please drop me a line in the comments if you use it for any of your projects. Also, please contribute any improvements that you make to it.