Twitter API updates, FireEagle and new Flickr API fun …

You know, just to cover all bases :) [update: Aaron talks about a similar Flickr/Dopplr/FireEagle dance over here] Tonight twitter released their next batch of API improvements, of course the one that caught my eye was … “[NEW] /account/update_location.[xml|json] – sets the location for the authenticated user to the string passed in a “location” parameter. [...]

Making Sense of the World, Web2.0expo slides are online.

Maybe a little tricky to follow what’s going on without me wildly waving my arms around but I promised to put the slides up online (I used keynote converted to pdf, so you’re missing my notes, which were mostly swearing anyway) … | View | Upload your own … to start with you have to [...]

done – geo talk at web2.0 expo

And now I’m in a burger joint getting food and tapping this out on a phone. I’ll get slides and supporting material up over next week once I’ve removed all the swearing from the notes :)

[worklog] Little Wins – “Link to this” back on the map.

It’s been a bit of a stop-and-start past few weeks. You knows, where it’s not possible to quite get into your groove. I’ve sort of been circling around the geo-stuff, not quite able to get my teeth into it. So in the meantime I’ve been picking off general Flickr site bugs from the queue and [...]

Geotagging Video (on Flickr)

So, yay, Flickr released Video today. One of the things I really like about this is that they get geotagged in just the same way, you drag them onto the map, or you use external tools that call the Flickr API to set location … flickr.photos.geo.setLocation … just as you did before. The thing it [...]

Paul Smith’s thoughts about maps.

List Apart have a good article up for people looking to move beyond just-throwing-a-Google-Map-onto-a-webpage. The general gist is summed up well here … “The result is Google Maps fatigue. We’ve all experienced it. It manifests not only when we yawn at YAGMM (Yet Another Google Maps Mashup), because there are high-quality web apps deploying the [...]

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