location
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Knowing The Real-Life Location Of These Tweets Makes Me Feel Dirty
Twitter is modern-day people-watching. Anytime you check it, you see what a person is thinking or doing or saying. But it’s not all happening in a digital vacuum, they’re on break at work tweeting about their boss, they’re outside a hospital tweeting about their day, they’re somewhere tweeting about something. This photo project, Geolocations, by…
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Have We Gone Overboard With Social Media Check-Ins?
IMDB has an updated app out today, which is cool and fine, but one peculiar addition is the ability to check in and share whatever movie or TV show you’re watching. OK, Foursquare, Facebook and Yelp were fine, but at what point does the whole check-in trend become overkill?
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This Is What 3 Years Of One Person’s GPS Data Looks Like
There are plenty of cool GPS data projects in existence, but this is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen: three whole years of location data, taken from an iPhone.
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Foursquare’s Now All About Discovery
Foursquare’s undergone something of a Renaissance over the last few weeks — packing on new features like Radar and unlockable badge levels. Now, the social-mobile site is shifting its focus away from check-ins and towards exploration while optimising the site for tablets.