Geo Twitter getting into shape

Being at Microsoft makes you want to write code at all times. Trust me you cannot be in the campus and don't fire VS2008 or Twitter ;-)

Following the post from yesterday. People around here use twitter to find other people in the campus, faster than email when isn't down.

Now I have been thinking to use GIS and twitter together to improve a little the experience to find people around the campus. Geo Twitter was born.

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Right now I am still writing the business logic, so I need your input, when finish I'll work on the UI.

These what I need to know, would you like to see the avatar of people in the map and click at them? How would you like to add your location? Clicking the map? Do you want the link on the message?

Hope to be finished by next week.

Cheers

Al

Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:42 AM by albertpascual
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Comments

# re: Geo Twitter getting into shape

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:48 PM by Brian Mains

I like the interactive map idea... I think that would be the best approach because it's more visual about their location.  And I think it would be more functional than having a message link.  Pretty cool idea.

Brian

# re: Geo Twitter getting into shape

Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:04 AM by stefan.sedich

Hello,

Why not make it really cool and use something like the SkyhookService, www.skyhookwireless.com. This is what is used on the iPhone. Then if a person is in a wireless hotspot, figure out location and update their location. That way you can actually track people around :), could make it update every 15 minutes or so.

I was hoping to do something like this one day if I ever get the time.

Cheers

Stefan

# GeoTwitter look and feel is here

Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:07 PM by Al Pascual

This is an update from the GeoTwitter idea. I started using MVC with a few bumps on the way. Please let

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