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Flickr's Mobile Site Gets Smarter: Shows Photos Taken Nearby
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 19, 2009 8:58 AM / 10 Comments

flickr_logo.pngFlickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing site, just released a nice update of its mobile site. If you have an Android phone or an iPhone (updated to the 3.0 firmware), you can now see images that were taken close to your current location. The new mobile site makes good use of some of the new APIs in the iPhone 3.0 update. Specifically, it looks like Flickr's mobile site now hooks into Apple's Core Location service right from Safari. Typically, developers could only access this from their own, native apps, but now, web apps are also able to access location data.

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Yahoo Placemaker: Extract Location Data from Any Text
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 20, 2009 11:30 AM / 5 Comments

yahoo_geo_logo.pngAt Where 2.0 today, Yahoo announced a new product in its already impressive lineup of geo technologies: Placemaker. Placemaker is a new open API from Yahoo that helps developers to make their applications and data sets location-aware. Developers can feed Placemaker any kind of structured and unstructured data, including feeds and web pages, and the app will analyze the text and extract location data from it. This, could, for example, allow news organizations to easily tag their content with location data and create hyper-local products based on this data.

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