GeoTwitter
void
twitter posts so one can tell friends and followers where he is doing
whatever he is doing?
Gerard van Enk
Something like <http://twittervision.com> ? For more information about
the location notation: <http://tinyurl.com/3x2kb2>
Gerard
Lisa
void
reinventing the wheel (i.e. doing in part what twitter is doing, while
still providing update on twitter). I like twittervision, but what I
think would be neat would be twitter integrating positioning
themselves. I mean, how hard is that? And you have google maps for
free (or openlayers, or <insert your favorite maps here>) so showing
locations would be easy easy...
Is the twitter development really moving? :S
On Aug 6, 6:38 pm, Lisa <leeee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or perhaps you mean something like what they're doing with the Mologogo
> project: www.mologogo.com
>
> .
> *Lisa* ::www.sophistechate.com
Ed Finkler
>
> Mologogo looks really nice, although it seems to me they are kind of
> reinventing the wheel (i.e. doing in part what twitter is doing, while
> still providing update on twitter). I like twittervision, but what I
> think would be neat would be twitter integrating positioning
> themselves. I mean, how hard is that?
So, you want them to spend time and CPU to calculate positioning info
for all of their users, for what is *at best* an edge case use? I
think that's definitely something for a 3rd party to do, and not a
core 1st-party feature.
> Is the twitter development really moving? :S
That's underhanded and out of line. Twitter is supporting a massive
amount of users -- far more than any other comparable service -- and
keeping the service available and responsive is impressive in and of
itself. They have provided an easy to use, open API, and are very
quick to respond to suggestions. We should be applauding them for
their great work.
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Cameron Kaiser
>
> That's underhanded and out of line. Twitter is supporting a massive
> amount of users -- far more than any other comparable service -- and
> keeping the service available and responsive is impressive in and of
> itself. They have provided an easy to use, open API, and are very
> quick to respond to suggestions. We should be applauding them for
> their great work.
Seconded.
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Britt Selvitelle
Alex Payne
We'd love to do features like geolocation, but two things stand in
the way. Firstly, we need to do the plain ol' text thing really,
really well. That is: for all kinds of devices, in all kinds of
locales, all the time. That's a big job, and it occupies most of our
time.
The second thing is that we listen to our users, and geolocation-type
features aren't anywhere in their top requests. It's the sort of
thing that developers love and users are so-so about. Like I said,
we'd love to do it, but we have to meet our users needs first and
foremost.
Some day, though!
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adm
i have done a couple tiny apps with a feature like this. for basic
stuff, i've just been using the user's profile info and mapping it
when possible. on another one, if your status contains a mappable
address, my app maps it. but twittervision's notation is probably the
smart way of handling this.
i would love it if twitter *eventually* adopted a standard machine tag
or whatever, so that users don't wind up using a different notations
for every twitter-dependent app they are using...but even as someone
who is (casually) developing stuff like this, i wouldn't encourage
twitter to take time off from their core mission to work this in right
now.
gets location info from profile:
http://twitterphone.ning.com
gets location by concatenating status text with city/state in profile:
http://parkaholic.ning.com
(both are open source. just click the "get a network" button at the
top.)
void
was. I am well aware, as an employee for a company with a really large
number of clients (TomTom), that a lot of work goes on in the
background to make sure things run smoothly. Even more when it's a
startup company.
I am, however, really amazed to find out that the users actually don't
care that much for being able to geo-locate their friends... I know I,
as a user, think it would be really cool to be able to see where my
friends are having fun at the moment :)
On Aug 7, 10:22 pm, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote:
> > > Is the twitter development really moving? :S
>
> > That's underhanded and out of line. Twitter is supporting a massive
> > amount of users -- far more than any other comparable service -- and
> > keeping the service available and responsive is impressive in and of
> > itself. They have provided an easy to use, open API, and are very
> > quick to respond to suggestions. We should be applauding them for
> > their great work.
>
> Seconded.
>
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Ed Finkler
> I am, however, really amazed to find out that the users actually don't
> care that much for being able to geo-locate their friends... I know I,
> as a user, think it would be really cool to be able to see where my
> friends are having fun at the moment :)
And now you're understanding that most people are not like us. 8)
michael...@gmail.com
(Automatic Packet Reporting System), it would be cool. But probably
only for a limited audience. It might be interesting to try an tie
the two systems together...APRS status changes create a update on
Twitter...I'll have to think about this a little...
void
begin to change. I think most users just don't realize yet how cool
this would be. Imagine you are in the mountains snowboarding/skying/
whateverying, you take some pictures, make some videos, and then
update your status on twitter with your location. Now say your
friends, based on that location, can check out immediately your
pictures, videos, hell, anything in a nice (Google, Yahoo,
<insert_your_favorite_map_app_here> map.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think most users would like that kind of
functionality. Ok, maybe in the future, probably just not now...
Pedro
On Aug 8, 7:24 pm, "Ed Finkler" <funkat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/07, void <assun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am, however, really amazed to find out that the users actually don't
> > care that much for being able to geo-locate their friends... I know I,
> > as a user, think it would be really cool to be able to see where my
> > friends are having fun at the moment :)
>
> And now you're understanding that most people are not like us. 8)
>
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> Ed Finklerhttp://funkatron.com
Xenophod
and don't want people to know where EXACTLY they work.... Or where
EXACTLY they live... there are malicious people who have an easy time
finding information about individuals and attacking them via the web,
phone and in public.
It would have to be an "option" and not a "default" thing...
void
all the guys out there that cheat on their wives and would be dumb
enough to twitter while at it LOL. Just kidding :)