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Flickr is making important upgrades of geotagging and they are launching a new area called “Places Pages” on the site. These are dedicated pages that provide users with specific information about places with the concept of “interestingness”: see an overview here. For the geotagging upgrades, no changes to the way photos are geotagged (using Yahoo maps), but they are updating the results pages for searches so that users can quickly find photos based on tags and geotagged information.
It's cool to find news by clicking on a map, isnt'it ? Well in 2006, a Montreal-based "Internet TV News Network" has been launched to deliver free, all-video broadcast news clips using Web technology.
First it was called MediaScrape, then it changed its name to Internet Broadcast Corp. (and the to URL NuVu.tv) then back again to the original name with a new site redesign, a new Google Maps integration, more content providers, new funding. (It was Youtube in fact that insisted for the original name). The site made partnership with YouTube to provide language-specific content to YouTube's regional sites, like YouTube UK, Ireland, Brazil, Turkey, and so on...
The idea is of course to digitize analogue TV broadcasts in a format that is high-quality video, on-demand, translated on location, interactive, free, searchable and archived. And now MediaScrape is a Google NewsMap which is partnered directly with broadcast news outlets such as the BBC, CBC, Asia News International and 25 other leading global news broadcasters.
Their database has 35,000 news clips : to get started you can click on a region to see top news clips plotted to a Google Map based on their specific location.
You can see the press release, here.
Twitter, the social networking and microblogging service lets you now see recent Tweets in a 3D view.The service is called TwitterVision and it's like the new Google Maps mashup called ModelVision that lets you see 3D models added to the 3D Warehouse. You have a choice of to see the most recent, the highest rated, or the most popular.
ViaMichelin annonced the release of its ViaMichelin Maps & Drive API: a product range dedicated to tourism, travel and leisure sectors ! This system allows easy integration of maps, itineraries, checking
address and the ViaMichelin hotel reservation engine into your website.
There are two versions of that API, based on the Javascript technology allowing more customization in web applications: free and professional version, with additional advanced functionalities and content. You can click here to see different services and here for more info.
You surely know Geni, the great tool to create a family tree through a simple interface. Now it's possible to view all of your family's current locations and birthplaces on a map ! You can choose who you want to see on the map including anyone in your family or family friends.
You don't know much about your family history ? Just start, then expand your tree by adding relatives' email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives, so help you branch out the tree in other directions. Every member of the tree also has their own profile in which they can share pictures and other information ! Cool, isnt'it ?
If you are a Flickr fan and you insist on staying so, forget about this post. But If you're OK to see an alternative : Discover Ipernity !
It's a photo sharing social network which looks like an improvement of Flickr services. It can perform all the features at Flickr like uploading photos, add to
favorites, add notes, view all sizes, embed photos to your blog/site, make
comments, add tags, etc…. But with Ipernity you can also blog
post, add videos, music files and make your music play-list within a few
clicks. As you can generate your own web space with all the content that you upload in
organized page and share, Ipernity is also called "the multi-function pocket knife of the web 2.0".
Here is some summary features that ipernity can perform :
Ps: Not the most important feature but so cool : You can get dressed the way you want to, choose the colors to customize your page :
BBC is experimenting with tagging stories, sounds, photos and video to its location on a map.
First exemples can be seen at GeoStories : Those taking part in the project were equipped with a Nokia N-series phone, and a Garmin GPS device. The aim was to explore a kind of storytelling fixed to geographical locations.
Find here the story of GeoStories.
Just released yesterday, Flickrvision shows realtime, geolocated Flickr photos.
Flickrvision is the brainchild of David Troy, the developer who created the original Twittervision. The new site is certainly hypnotic and addictive. So we recommend you not to look at it at work, you risk to pass hours in front of your PC :-)
