Flickr Nearby Mobile, iPhone 3.0 and Google Maps

Flickr just released Mobile Nearby for “smartphones” ie the iphone and that other one. Just go to m.flickr.com and there should be a new link that figures out where you are and, well, shows you nearby photos. Two quick things; 1) I’m still waiting for broadband to be connect here, so I’m doing everything via [...]

Geotagging becomes a real thing

Apparently, as covered by all the other geoblogs, probably. Oh and happy 2009, when my newest daughter reaches 6 months I’ll probably have had enough sleep to start blogging again, still in hibernation mode atm.

Moving hosts … will be down and out for a couple of days.

So I’m finally tired of Yahoo! Small Business’ WordPress blog hosts. It just doesn’t seem to work. The database falls over, connections don’t work, the log files fill up, or whatever. The WordPress versions which are supposed to auto-update don’t seem to leaving security holes, and so on. Therefore I’m taking the easy route out [...]

iPhone has GPS (confirmed)

I mean we all knew it anyway, so I guess I’ll have to buy one now. Now lets see how it actually writes the information to the EXIF fields ;-)

Google Map Photos, Redux.

A few weeks ago I commented about Googles new photo overlays, in which they pre-bake Panoramio photos into tiles. I said I was unsure of why they didn’t have a more even distribution of photos at the global level. Well it seems that (totally co-incidently I’m sure) a more even spread has now happened. Although [...]

Geomancering, the word that doesn’t work :(

I love the word Neuromancer, from the Gibson book. For me it works on a several levels and conjures up all sorts of evocative images, it’s a near perfect word. It has that cross between someone who studies and controls the dark arts of Neurology, and a “romancer” of Neurons. That lights up the Mondo2000 [...]

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 [...]

[offtopic] Trying out imified

imified seems to nearly have all the answers.

So far I’ve set it up to point to my Remember The Milk account and now I can step through a set of menus to View task lists, add to task lists and view task lists. Unfortunately you can’t chain commands together to do everything in one message, which keeps it just out of reach Quicksilver.Interestingly you can also use it to post to a blog, I’m testing that Right Now![Update: Seems links don’t work, so I’m editing my hand.

[offtopic] Oh comcast, where art thou?

In theory we’re getting the internets connected to our new apartment today, or it seems, tomorrow, who can say? Along with bed, sofa, other random furniture and stuff. Therefor I’ll not be around until Monday at the soonest, enjoying a Hot Chocolate and wifi in the local cafe atm. In the meantime, everyone have a [...]

There’s this odd thing called “geotagging”

Apparently speculation is all the rage… http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157594224300893/ I wouldn’t know anything about that obviously.

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