This is only tangentially related because of the Flickr angle. I’ve just finished reading Dan Heller’s post “Pulling the Flickr sword out of the Yahoo stone” [via Thomas Hawk's blog] for the third time. It’s finally clarified what I’ve been thinking about how you should approach reading blogs. To the point of actually writing something. [...]
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Stefan over at Ogle Earth has just reminded me that I’m speaking at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo this March (Upcoming event here). Should be fun, I’m hoping for some tea and biscuits in the bar afterwards. Anyway here’s the blurb about my bit that I didn’t write while on medication but probably sounds like [...]
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Apparently some genius “sees huge potential as more people become aware of GPS and geotagging.” Carrying on, “That mainly comes down to GPS devices in cars and mobile phones raising people’s awareness of location-based services,” he said. “It wasn’t really in people’s consciousness even a year ago. … We’re very much at the beginnings.” You [...]
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One of the main aims of the Places project was to present people with ‘Iconic’ photos that represented a location really well. Of course one of the other criteria is that we wouldn’t be picking these photos by hand, oh no, we’d be relying on computers and algorithms and all that stuff. In turn ‘all [...]
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