Here in Fort Collins, Colorado we are treated each week to a casual, social media training session organized by Nick Armstrong of WTF Marketing (@imnickarmstrong) in what’s known as the Digital Gunslingers meet-up. This past week we were treated to a session organized by nick…
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With the winter weather being a little crazy in many parts of the county this helpful video from WSDOT seemed appropriate.
Google has unveiled their Vancouver Olympics Street View Gallery, enabling visitors to get up close to the Vancouver Olympic Games, courtesy of some innovative image data capture via snowmobile! Check out the luge, go skiing at Whistler and more… see all the street view imagery…
Here’s a romantic idea for some Valentine’s Day fun if you happen to be a real techno geek… drive around looking for treasure with your sweetie! Another cool treasure hunt from the team at Waze (@waze on Twitter).
MagnetU gives people the power to match and make new connections with people who are right now close to them - from a very close distance of 1 meter up to potentially hundreds of meters away, whether for making new friends, finding love, date or…
Building on the topic of social location and social check-in services (think foursquare, GoWalla) I’m convinced we need to see more participation from local businesses in order for this to succeed.
A great intro video from Loic showing the new Seesmic Twitter client for Android OS with cross-posting and much more… awesome stuff! (PS: take it from me, Seesmic is a company to watch!)
Looking for more social location check-in options for your iPhone? Enter PlacePop. The free app is now available via the iTunes shop and enables the standard, foursquare-like check-in (actually its more like GoWalla) along with a little more functionality.
An interesting app for Blackberry users from Berryski… according to the developer, BerrySki is the first fully offline GPS ski maps App for BlackBerry.
An interesting new mashup called GeoCoded Art enables users to view art by geographic region. Select a region of interest (county, then area) and view thumbnails for a quick view or art from that region.
Looks like Twitter is rolling out the “local trends” feature to more users as I just spotted the option in my setup.