Tag Archive for 'geocoding'

Twitter’s next feature: see Facebook

Twitter should be more like Facebook.. I’ll tell you why:
Ever got a friend on Facebook that was using a Facebook Application called Farmville or Mafia Wars? Good change you have.. Since Farmville has around 69.000.000 monthly users and their mobile version is also called a ‘smash hit‘. So if those are unique users, a […]

Geolocation coming to the browser..

When will the web-browser know where we are? Hopefully sometime soon.. probably not.
FireEagle (by Yahoo) is a nice first step. Have different applications tell FireEagle where you are and have web-apps request your location (with different accuracies) from FireEagle. Nice.. but not really straight forward and end-user friendly. End-users will have to have a FireEagle […]

Now/how Google knows where you are..

Having an Iphone I often use the superb Google Maps. And, I believe as of version 1.1.3 of the Iphone firmware, you can press the ‘My location’ button and you find where you are. No GPS. Only cell tower data. And.. it is scaringly accurate.
Now you (at least I) figure.. how do they do it? […]