As a fan of geolocation technology in all of its interesting and frightening forms, I was glad to stumble across San Francisco photographer Eric Fischer‘s visualizations on Flickr. In “Locals and Tourists,” Fischer created maps of the geotags embedded in photos, and then separated photos taken by locals from those taken by tourists (and from those [...]
Entries Tagged as 'geolocation'
Fun with Geotags
September 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Photography, Technology, The Web
Tags: demographics·ethnicity·flickr·geolocation·gps·maps·photography·photos·race
WeReward Rundown
May 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Business, Gadgets, Technology, The Web
Another day, another geolocation app. But this one has a blunt answer to the frequently asked question: “Why would anyone want to ‘check in’ every place they go?” And that answer is cash. WeReward comes from the folks at Izea, a company that — for better and worse — wants to monetize the social web. But unlike [...]
Where Are You?
November 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Gadgets, Social Media, Technology
“Where are you?” is the next “What are you doing?” Twitter has built a game-changing tool based on the latter question, launching the era of the “statusphere” and the “real-time web.” But when it comes to predicting paradigm shifts, my money is on ubiquitous (and perhaps unavoidable) geolocation. It’s literally a whole new dimension of [...]
