Take the API for Google Maps (other projects doing this), combine it with images on Flickr tagged with postcodes or longitude/latitude, and you’ve got Geobloggers . I typed in the postcode for my office, W1A 1AA: Doing this and pulled… Continue Reading
Reporting on the recent Search Engine Strategies 2005 conference, hosted by Search Engine Watch, Jane Wakefield of BBC News Online writes that: "The battle is set to intensify as search becomes more relevant, more personal and more localised, representatives from… Continue Reading
I’m always going on about the shift from global online communities to those based around geographical localities. Online dating is one of the clearest examples of this – there’s not much point in seeking out potential dates from halfway around… Continue Reading
(This was a position paper I wrote in advance of giving a talk at TPSA in Warsaw on 21 May 2004 – one year ago today.) The internet was initially conceptualised as a way to overcome thelimitations of geography. Pioneering… Continue Reading
About this time last year, I was putting the final touches on a presentation I would later give as the opening presentation of TPSA’s Akademia TP Trendy Przyszłości in Warsaw. It probably wasn’t the most interesting presentation I’ve ever given,… Continue Reading