4 month ago
Linkorama : Great To See You. Just Not Around Here - If I’m frank, one of the enjoyable aspects of that small bar around the corner is that I’m not going to bump into you.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : The disruptive potential of GPS on the iPhone 3G - Either way, GPS makers will no doubt be coming to the same realization that those selling MP3 players are now experiencing, and that PDA makers have been already been forced to deal with. Convergence is a bitch.
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7 month ago
deusx : Twinkle Twinkle Little iPhone, How I Wonder Where You Are | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - "Here's a great idea: Twitter+Location+iPhone. Twinkle is just that; a Twitter client which taps into the iPhone's location finding feature to let you tune into tweets from nearby people."
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7 month ago
plasticbag : Young Marshall's Django Fire Eagle package... - "The django_fireeagle package contains code to handle the Fire Eagle authorisation process within Django. You can use it to manage connections between Django users and their respective Fire Eagle access tokens."
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8 month ago
plasticbag : Shoes with built-in GPS units that can broadcast your location! How awesome is that!? - Well unfortunately it's not that awesome, as it only seems to actually broadcast your location when you press a button, presumably as a consequence of being kidnapped or something. Fun though.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : GeoTwitterous - Where Are Your Twitter Friends? Find Out With GeoTwitterous
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8 month ago
Linkorama : WikiNear - A FireEagle/Wikipedia mashup
factoryjoe : wikinear.com - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wikipedia, fire eagle, location, Simon willison
deusx : wikinear.com - "wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone."
philgyford : Wikinear.com - Awesome little app by Simon Willison that shows you places near you from Wikipedia, using Yahoo! Fire Eagle. Makes me want an iPhone.
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location - demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API
Linkorama : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Under the hood the site combines a number of interesting technologies: OAuth, Fire Eagle, GeoNames and the new Google Static Maps API.
factoryjoe : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Brilliant writeup about how Simon implemented wikinear using OAuth, etc. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, fire eagle, wikinear
Rod Begbie : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery. #
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Henri Bergius has posted about how he's hooked up Jaiku and Fire Eagle - Seems like a lovely piece of work there and in record time. The amount of creative engineering I'm seeing around the place is really cool.
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Kellan points out some of our interesting choices on Fire Eagle. The things he points out are spot on... - I really think is worth talking about why we didn't do a social network. Lots of services manage the social graph and Fire Eagle can be hybridised with all of them. Why would we make the effort?
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Matt McAlister wrote a piece about Fire Eagle which talks about some of the possibilities - As is probably obvious, I'm collating a number of the posts about Fire Eagle that have turned up in the last day or so. I really like Matt's - it gets some of the weird out-there potential.
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plasticbag : Dopplr have announced integration with Fire Eagle which fills me with joy! - It's a pretty lightweight interaction right now, but they're keen to think of things they could do with it.
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Fire Eagle - Easily share your location online! Personalise lots of sites and services! - We've just launched. I couldn't be more excited about this. 10,000 invitation codes are out in public right now and we're going to be announcing it formally on stage at ETech in an hour or so.
Simon Willison : Welcome to Fire Eagle! - Welcome to Fire Eagle!. It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.
Rod Begbie : Fire Eagle - Fire Eagle has launched -- a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It's really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly #
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Soon you'll be able to get yourself a little iPhone plug-in GPS unit, which looks pretty cool. - Wonder what the software is like. Useful and good for Fire Eagle. Was interested in what was going to happen since the iPhone deformed the direction of smart phones (in a cool direction) in the US.
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Flickr's awesome new 'Places' feature has launched, allowing you to go and see the best pictures of all kinds of places all over the world. - Lovely stuff. Develop a body of data (photos) and then hook it up with other data sources to enhance both. Each dataset navigable in terms of the other. The combination makes both more valuable.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : What Google has planned for Jaiku - Post + Location + Status = Value
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13 month ago
plasticbag : What PC talks a little about Fire Eagle. Interesting response... - I think the thing I hear most from people are anxieties about their privacy. It's a reasonable anxiety and the one that we're most focused on alleviating with sensible precautions.
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Nokia Acquired Navteq - A very big move towards becoming an internet company
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19 month ago
nelson : Roue Libre - cheap bike rentals in Paris, run by the public transit agency
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19 month ago
Linkorama : going fulltime on Dopplr - great app for the jetset, like plazes with premenition
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph has gone full time as CTO of Dopplr... - I'm very happy for Matt—and love dopplr—just can't help feeling a little bit sad that we're not working with each other, which is something I've wanted to do again pretty much immediately ever since we both left the BBC... Miss Webb as well...
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19 month ago
Andy Baio : Dodgeball founders quit Google in frustration - wow, I wasn't expecting that
kellan : dens + alex quit google. - dens + alex quit google.. Google’s track record on acquisition is atrocious. Big companies need to expect to pour resources into tiny acquisition, or whats the point. (I’m looking at you Yahoo!) #
Linkorama : Dodgeball Founders Quit Google - It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other
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20 month ago
jimray : MarcoPolo - Fuzzy logic based automatic location switching for your shiny Macbook. This is exactly what I want from a location manager.
43folders : MarcoPolo - Automatic location switching for Mac OS X - "...will make educated guesses as to your current location, and automatically switch for you." via:TUAW
joshua : MarcoPolo - Context-aware computing for Mac OS X
Eric Meyer : MarcoPolo - Context-aware computing for Mac OS X - Holy crow, does that ever look amazingly useful. [via Mike] [via]
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Check out Flickr's new maps for London. This is stunningly good stuff... - Yahoo and Flickr now have good maps for Britain and the rest of Europe as well, which should help the whole geotagging thing really fly outside the US. I've known this was coming for a while, but it doesn't make its arrival any less welcome...
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25 month ago
Simon Willison : New Popular Edition Maps - UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!
plasticbag : New Popular Edition Maps is using 1940s public domain maps as a foundation to build a free UK Postcode database - All you have to do is go to the site, find the place you grew up in or your current home on the site and then leave a marker complete with your postcode and the dataset builds itself. Totally public domain. Very cool.
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