Jay Robinson

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Just got around to this, but Pete Warden’s iPhoneTracker is weirdly awesome.

The HTML5 Family: Geolocation →

Ed Spencer coaches us through the Geolocation API in HTML5:

Various imprecise forms of geolocation have been in use on the web for some time, usually in the form of a crude best-guess based on your IP address. Today we have a plethora of new location-aware devices using a variety of location sensing techniques. The HTML5 Geolocation API provides a way to find a device’s location without caring how that information is discovered.

Via ExtJS.

Early Proof That Geolocation Marketing Will Succeed →

People wonder what all the fuss is about with Foursquare and Gowalla but I’ve been excited about the potentials of geolocation for years.

Google introduces Google Places. Geolocation, yo.

Via Kevin Burg: Soup

A Google map appears in the bottom of the slide pinned to your location.

There are a few examples in the HTML5 presentation that don’t work correctly. On a Mac, Firefox 3.6.3 is the only one I could get to work with Geolocation, and even that gave me a location nearly 50 miles away.

Geolocation has a ways to go, if only (I think) because browser vendors are trying to figure the proper privacy protocol.

"Peeing on things is like Foursquare for dogs."

— Ben Kutil

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Heatmap of my foursquare checkins according to wheredoyougo

I would like to see one of these made for Gowalla. Anybody know of one?