geolocation

21 Apr 2011

Where I've been since OS4.0, as recorded by my iPhone (detail).

Twitter has been ablaze recently with revelations that iPhones and iPad 3Gs are secretly recording your every move, and have been doing so for about a year now.

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Where have you been? Your iPhone knows.

Your iPhone or iPad 3G has been secretly recording your location since OS 4.0. Would you like a map with that?

12 Dec 2009

Syntax

/at nameOfPlace
  • nameOfPlace: (string) the name of the place that the user is currently at in real life

Summary

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tCheckIn Twitterformat proposal

Tell your followers where you are IRL, just like you can in Gowalla and Foursquare.

22 Mar 2008

Wikinear: location-based Wikipedia articles

My friend and fellow Brightoner Simon Willison of Django/OpenID fame has just released a lovely little mashup called wikinear that uses FireEagle and Wikipedia to show you Wikipedia articles that are relevant to your current location.

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Wikinear: location-based Wikipedia