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[Twitter Blog] Twitter Blog: Location, Location, Location: We're gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet.

[Prof. Hacker] Working with APIs (part 2): Because one way of accessing an API is directly through the query string, often requiring no programming knowledge to do something with the results that are sent. This would be the part of the post where I digress into a discussion of the rhetoric of the query string, but I’m already the resident ProfHacker technoweirdo so…onward to an example of query string power.

[GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS - Home] Ruby wrapper for Twitter Search API - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO ...: The “near” operator available in the Twitter Search web interface is not available via the API. You must geocode before making your Twitter Search API call, and use the :geocode key in your request using the pattern lat,lngmi or lat .

[O'Reilly Network Articles] Meet the Twitter API - Twitter API: Up and Running - O'Reilly Media: Twitter added the Update Member Location method, for example, after a need for it materialized with the iPhone: developers wanted to be able to leverage the geocode information to pinpoint a user’s location at any given moment, and a method was needed to facilitate this update. The creation of that method changed the value of that open text field, in turn, since it now reflected where certain users were at a particular moment in time, rather than where they chose to call home.

[ask a question about twitter.com] Twitter API “geocode”.. How it works?: Twitter API provides an option of fetching the tweets around a specific latitutde and longitude value. It accepts lat/long values in terms of degrees only.

[Reseller News] Reseller News > Geolocation coming to Twitter and its external ...: Twitter is jumping on the geolocation bandwagon, with plans to let users geocode their posts and make the information accessible both on the main Twitter site and through external applications. Initially, Twitter will release to its external developers a preview of a new geolocation API (application programming interface), which will let developers attach geographic metadata to "tweets," the company announced on Thursday in a blog post.

[ProgrammableWeb] Twitter API Adds Location Data - Tweets Get Realtime Geo: According to Biz’s post, the new API has various implications for improving how Twitter is used, including the ability for users to connect with other users based on geographic commonality:

[MacMegasite] MacMegasite » Stone Design releases Twittelator Pro 3.2 ...: In the past year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 10 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, Gesture which lets you turn photos into digital paintings and share them, Twittelator Pro, the most feature laced twitter client for the iPhone/Touch, Pulsar the free pyschedelic strobe light and now SoundBite MobileMix Postcards, TalkingPics µ, and iCreated with artist David Scott Leibowitz. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone and Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff.net, and Geoff Pado of Cocoatype on SoundBite and MobileMix.

[Blog by Jon Bishop] Getting Local With Twitter: geocode: returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude, where the user’s location is taken from their Twitter profile. The parameter value is specified by “latitide,longitude,radius”, where radius units must be specified as either “mi”

[Carlo Pecchia's blog] Twitter will add geolocation: Maybe some of you - smart coders ;) - already know that Twitter provides a geolocation facility through its API. For example, pointing our browser to this url: http://search.twitter.com/search?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km ...

[Hans | zevenseas | SharePoint Blog] The Twitter search API and TunnelPoint - Hans | zevenseas ...: geocode: Optional. Returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude, where the user's location is taken from their Twitter profile.

[developerlife - The Blog] developerlife - The Blog » New Tutorial - Twitter API Integration: If you are trying to build a complex GWT application that needs to be split into multiple modules, or if you need to import 3rd party modules into your application, this tutorial will show you how to do both of these things. We will import the GWT Log module, and we will also create a new module that you can include as a dependency for other modules/projects.

[Kartick Suriamoorthy's Blog] A Twitter - Google Maps mashup to view your friends network ...: The Google Geocode API returns coordinates of a point as a longitude-latitude pair but the markers in the Google Static Maps API expect it in latitude-longitude format and it took me some time to figure out this (I was wondering why my markers were located in Antarctica and sometimes way outside any conceivable point in the globe !!)I wonder why Google did that (iPhone actually got it right and it was trivial to take the iPhone Geocode and insert it into the Google Maps URL) –

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