Geotags.org > Geo-Location: 4 Tales for April 16th « The Balancing Act
[The Balancing Act] Just this past week, there were 4 different news stories about how geo-location is re-shaping social media. In honor of Global Social Media Day (yes, that is today), I thought I would share them with you.
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[TechCrunch] The Great Location Land Rush Of 2010: With Twitter it was about gaining real-time info on pretty much anything. With geolocation, it’s about gaining geospatial awareness from the data, and Twitter will obviously play a big role in that, but it won’t dominate geo the way it’s dominated real time b/c there is much more to it, including more dimensions.
[Michelle's Blog] Why I Can't Get As Excited About Geolocation as Scoble ...: Now that's scary because you're gone a lot longer on a vacation than a quick run to the coffee shop. But I think most of these geo-location services have privacy settings where you could block other peoples. The modern “web 2.0”³ companies do a great .... We can't place all the responsibility/liability on the services people use, but neither can we completely blame the people using them. There's a balance involved, particularly when some of the users are not as tech-savvy. ...
[Zach Browne Corporation] Great Web 2.0 Site List: Your Social Navigator Belysio is a universal platform that brings your address books alive by synchronized communication, location services & geo stories.
[Climate Audit] Equal Area Projections « Climate Audit: Could anyone help me as I am trying to teach projection at a very basic level, I felt the best way was to have different cut outs of projections of North America which students could compare and simply realise that they are different BUT I cannot find main projections of the USA that are simply oulines I can cut around, just to get an idea of the basic subtle distortions. Can anyone help provide me with these.
[Answers.com: Today in History] Malta: Definition from Answers.com: Rural Malta shares in common with Mediterranean and traditional Jewish society a number of superstitions regarding fertility, menstruation, and pregnancy, including the avoidance of cemeteries during the months leading up to childbirth, and avoiding the preparation of certain foods during menses. Pregnant women are encouraged to satisfy their cravings for specific foods, out of fear that their unborn child will bear a representational birth mark (Maltese: xewqa, literally "desire" or "craving").
[Bits] How Much Is Twitter Worth to Facebook? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: The main reason why Twitter did not acceptable Facebook’s deal and pretty much never will is because Facebook was offering stock instead of solid money. It was predictable that the deal would be rejected because Facebook valuates itself to $15 billion in cases of their own acquisitions, but when Facebook feels threatened, the company accepts a $1 billion valuation.
[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Obama's Big Government Gamble: Just how do you expect Obama to reform entitlements when we can expect to pay interest of somewhere around $1 trillion per year a decade from now? I guess he will keep the tax on SS and medicare but eliminate any benefits for anyone that happens to make a decent living.
[Military Aviation Discussion] New QDR Released and you need to read it if you want to understand ...: Were still going to have to fight todays fight in this irregular war, Fraser said, adding that the Air Force is seeking to balance the demands of the present, in which the Air Force enjoys a permissive airspace, against the need to prevail in the toughest scenarios, where USAFs control of the air will be harshly and competently challenged.
[Bjørn Stærk's Max 256 Blog] Bjørn Stærk blog - The Iraq war revisited: Theo-fascist and Saddamite bombs strike Baghdad every day. Syrian assassins, trying to stop Lebanon's democratic movements, are murdering .
[apophenia] apophenia » Blog Archive » viewing American class divisions ...: With the hegemonic teens, I'm very worried about the stress that they're under, the lack of mobility and healthy opportunities for play and socialization, and THEY hyper-scheduling and surveillance.” .
[Sheetalmarkam's Blog] Impending Satanist Word Order « Sheetalmarkam's Blog: The government began a war against the Order by initiating judicial inquiries at Ingolstadt. Books, documents, correspondence, including over 200 letters dealt with matters of the highest secrecy, tables containing their secret codes and symbols, secret calendar, geographical locations, insignias, ceremonies of initiation, recruiting instructions, statutes, a partial roster of members, and nearly 130 government official seals which were used to counterfeit state documents were seized. Government gathered all confiscated documents, and published them in a book called Original Writings of the Order and Sect of the Illuminati, and circulated to every government in Europe, including France, to warn them of the impending danger.
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