TechCrunch reports that Google is in negotiations to buy Yelp. Makes perfect sense. Google is ready to make an assault on local with its Place Pages and QR codes on local establishments and augmented maps and directions and mobile…. This turf was newspapers’ and phone companies’ to lose and [...]
I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a google map. To make best use of it, you need to use a' [...]
Since then, it has been used to map [...]
In July 2009, The Media Consortium published Tony Deifell's The Big Thaw -- Charting a New Future for Journalism. The comprehensive review not only examines the current state of journalism, but also maps out potential ways the media can adapt for the future.
Written in three volumes ("Dissonance and Opportunity,"' [...]
Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform at Twitter, took the stage this morning at the LeWeb conference to discuss the developer roadmap and make four big announcements. Sarver mentioned that Twitter application developers have been very vocal about four key themes. They are:
Transparency. The need for Twitter to be more public, how they engage with 3rd [...]
Just listened to a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey, Inventor, Founder & Chairman, Twitter. A few interesting insights:
Q:How did you invent Twitter?
A: “It took a long time. I’ve always been fascinated with how cities work, fell in love with maps, obsessing with [...]
AT&T today released an iPhone app that reports wireless issues. It's called Mark the Spot. Very cool. This is a step toward the crowdsourced, conversational, map-driven go to market strategy I outlined here....this app [...]
As little as a year ago Google Maps had no geographic information about San Javier La Loma, a small working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Medellín where the ConVerGentes group of the HiperBarrio citizen journalism project is based. Some progress has been made, but as you can [...]
Beginning today, bloggers, Twitterers, and others who write online reviews or endorse products using new media must disclose it when they receive free merchandise or payment for writing about an item. The guidelines update the FTC’s 1980 guide addressing the use of testimonials in advertising, remapping marketing rules for the [...]
The new Bing Maps geotargets Twitter tweets.
I spent Wednesday at the Supernova conference in San Francisco, which has morphed over the years from [...]
