Here is something from the Google Latitude team to keep us busy for the easter weekend (or whenever). It is meant to encourage people to use Latitude and discover all the fun fun fun!
You can find my personalized easter message here
Blogger now supports Geotagging.
Wanted to share this one as it is an approach to make everything more local and apply some metadata to information on the web, trying to structure it. One of the important things of the semantic web; structured information.
They even made it easy for you; enter your location or browse the map, [...]
Mozilla Geode, Making browsers local
News has, that Mozilla will be launching a Firefox add-on, called Geode, that will enable the browser to enable localized content.
This is again, one of the signs that we’re moving towards a more local web, with even the major players (Google, Yahoo, Apple) tooling up to provide and handle with geolocation [...]
OK, officially it’s not available for people outside US and UK, although comments on the announcement by Google have said it’s available in other countries as well. But Google Mobile Search now has gotten more local. Where at first, or before, you were able to receive ‘locally relevant results’ based on your IP address or [...]
Google just introduced their Google suggest feature on all search engines. Although I find this feature helpful and promising, it doesn’t follow their philosophy:
1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
I tried some keyword searches and noticed how often Google suggest tries to give you local results. Almost each (local) search will give you suggestions with [...]
