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Twitter Puts Geotagging Tools in Place
Twitter has announced a new feature that will give users the ability to send their location with each tweet. The new geotagging API tools are available only through the Twitter API, and are not part of...
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Get Your Fix of Hyper-Local News With Fwix
Readers jonesing for local news on the web now have one more place to turn. News website Fwix has emerged a strong contender in the quickly growing field of hyper-local news aggregators, sites which...
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User-Contributed Announcements Give EveryBlock a Human Touch
EveryBlock, the local news aggregator that shows you block-level details about your city, has added a new feature dubbed, “Notify your neighbors,” which allows anyone in your neighborhood to post news...
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Google Gets a New Geocoder
Google has announced a new geocoding web service app authors can use to better plot locations on a map. The new Google Geocoding Web Service includes some enhanced capabilities that not only make it...
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Facebook Finds its Place in the Location-Sharing Landscape
The biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources, The New...
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‘Places’ Turns Facebook Into a Location Sharing Powerhouse
Facebook has jumped on the location check-in bandwagon with a new feature known as Places. Facebook Places has launched with four partners, all services that already offer check-in services —...
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Mozilla Hacks Blog Offers HTML5 Geolocation Primer
The Mozilla Hacks blog has posted a nice screencast overview of the HTML5 Geolocation API. The video is designed to help anyone competing in Mozilla’s September developer derby (which involves...
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