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December 8, 2009 • 8:09 am 0

Geomeme – what tweets are happening where

Geomeme is a very busy interface, but does a great job of identifying (you are asked first) your location and showing tweets around you.  From there you can view hot hashtags or search for your own.  It is all wrapped around a Google map mash showing the location of the people sending the tweets themselves.

Rotating tag clouds take up the bottom left and right corners, which is nice and spinny, but quite the eye sore.  You can go full screen with F11 and even slow the speed of the updating.

A cool service to find local users and what they are talking about.  It also identifies where they say they are located, so you can zoom in and out.

Filed under: Location services, , ,

September 25, 2009 • 7:17 am 0

TrendsMap – impressive realtime Twitter trends on a map

TrendsMap is a slick application allowing you to see trends in realtime come and go on a map that you control.  You can do the normal zoom in and out to see trends in specific areas.  You can only view in so many times, basically to a nice city type view.

There is a world view, region, and city view with a simple click.  Otherwise you can navigate anywhere you wish.  If you select your area it seems to attempt to find you by where you access the service since there is no authentication.

Clicking on any word brings up the tweets surrounding it as well as local news articles around it!  Very cool! You can then navigate to that word or place with a simple click.  Clicking words like flooding also brought up inline videos.  I was impressed yet again.

To fix: What was missing was the ability to specify a city to make the zooming easier.  If it was there I did not easily see it which means most users would miss it.  I also could not close the pop-up boxes, which was slightly annoying.

For help they have a tutorial screencast available in how everything works.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Location services

August 5, 2009 • 12:26 pm 0

JustBought.it – crowd powered shopping with tweets

JustBought.it was a site I ran across before but didn’t bother listing.  Well their UI is updated and they have some more features in place that allows you to share information on something you just purchased.

It then will merge the tweet with a picture with a Google Map as best it can.  Shopping trends then show, by category, on the right showing what people are buying.  There was about eight current trends you could sort through.

You can rate, save to a lightbox or even share the tweet from the main page.  This instantly starts creating a community around shopping habits of you and your friends.

If you have an online shopping site you can “white label”  the site to include it in your store and have people share what they bought.

You are able to see the latest tweets on both the homepage and a tab, view tweets on a map to find shopping deals or hot spots and a link for featured shoppers that tweet what they buy.  Mashable had a good review of the site also.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Location services, , , , ,

August 4, 2009 • 11:32 am 1

TwitArea – instant short URL’s for places

TwitArea is a Firefox 3.0.11 or higher add-on to allow you to share locations quickly and easily.  These places are not necessarily where you are located, but could be you talking about a place in general, like a restaurant.

The extension adds a new button to the web Twitter interface to find a place, by address, phone number or name, and then send a tweet containing a link, contact info, location and even votes and comments from other users.

Demos included the ability to rate the place and it did have sponsored links on the pages it created for each place.

Filed under: Location services, ,

July 27, 2009 • 2:16 pm 2

GeoChirp – an awesome Google Maps and Twitter mashup

GeoChirp pleasantly surprised me with the sleek interface and immediate usefulness.  You get immediate function without logging in.  It guesses your current location and shows it on the map and starts to bring in tweets at the bottom.

You are able to enter any address, number of tweets and miles radius.  You can also simply drag the placemarker around on the screen to another location and zoom in and out.  If you need to see more tweets and less map once you search you can click the tiny Map button at the top and it will minimize the map area.

Logging into the site utilizes oAuth and brings your Twitter bio and last tweet to the bottom right.

If you want to find and see any tweeting within some radius, this is certainly a great mashup.

Filed under: Location services, , ,

July 27, 2009 • 10:40 am 0

TweetMondo – find Twitter users close to you

TweetMondo works better the more precise your list your own location.  It allows you to find others in your area as well as them to find you, depending on privacy systems.

You can see the number of people in a location, but not details until you log into the site itself.  I used a test account and tried out the local city.

I did not like the fact that they forced you to post a tweet that you are using the service and followed them automatically.  Make it a freaking choice if I like your site or not.

Once in the map did show avatars of other users in the city.  I can see how the more precise you are it would zoom in tighter showing people very close in proximity.  Ads by Google show in the corner of the map for their revenue.

Hovering over any avatar didn’t not give details but I found a list at the bottom of the page.  You can click to show the person on the map, see how percise they list their location (by percentage) and their basic bio info such as followers and how many tweets sent.  You can follow and send a message to anyone on the list as well as see how long ago they were on.

The right side allows you to filter by name, bio, precision level,  number of followers or minimum number of tweets which was quite helpful.  I found that if they use a client that updates the geo location then it gives an excellent precision percentage.

I liked what they were doing and it was good to see people in the immediate area to find or follow.  I will be back (if they fix the auto follow and posting).

There were some privacy settings on if you should show in searches on the sites as well as some basic profile questions.

Filed under: Location services, ,

June 23, 2009 • 9:51 am 2

Foller.me – get all the info on the person before following them

Foller.me has one of the easiest welcome pages imaginable.  See the logo above?  That is it outside of a small entry box where you type a Twitter id (a Twitter id is no longer just a person, but that is another post).  What you get back is outstanding in a clean interface after it reads your last 200 tweets and 500 followers.

At the top is some very light images of others that were requested, just so you might roll your mouse over them and take a look.  But then the information begins.  I ran myself as normal.  I got the bio information first.  Followers, following, location, etc etc.  How many tweets.  All of that.  The basics as you would imagine.

Next up was a listing of recent topics, not hashtags, but topics themselves.  A great way to see more than the hashtag listings.  If you select any recent topic listed it then uses Twitter search on that keyword to get you more results from the public stream.

As each section is collapsible to save screen real estate, the next section down is hashtags.  It quickly gives a listing of all the recent hashtags.  As you would expect, the larger the word the more frequently used.

Next  up is recent mentions, meaning who that person has replied to or mentioned in their tweets.  it is a good indicator of who that person interacts with.  Each name is a link which then takes you to their Foller.Me profile, brilliant for keeping you not only on the site but also gives you the most information.

The last section currently only looks at 500 followers of that Twitter id, but it lays the followers across a Google mashup showing where they are and even gives some text on the bottom.  Meaning of the 500 it scanned for me, there was 221 different locations with 14 invalid ones (meaning the person did not list a true or real city or place).  You can click on any icon to get the name and location of the person.

NOTE: I think I forgot to mention the bookmarklet they have so you do not have to visit the site each and every time.  A great time saver

Filed under: Follower Management, Location services, Search Tools, , ,

June 11, 2009 • 7:01 am 0

CityTweets – posts from and about your city



CityTweets tries to pull as real-time a stream as it can into two columns per city. Tweets from the city and that mention the city. They currently had around 30 cities listed and I imagine will add more.


You can do this with some clients, like TweetLocal, but this is a web interface, which makes it easy to watch without overhead.

Filed under: Location services, ,

June 8, 2009 • 2:30 pm 0

TwitterScore – how does your Twitter profile score?

TwitterScore s your public profile to give you a score out of a possible 10.  It then shows you a graph, your rating and also people in close proximity that you may want to follow.  I noticed all of them had high scores via this site.

The site is ad driven and they are all over the place, so watch where you just click.  You also have some menu items to see Top Users and Top Locations.  Depressingly the top 50 were almost entirely celebrities, with a bunch not even doing their own tweets.  Ugh.

The US was the top ranked location by a far reach with the UK in second.  It was a quick interesting browse but I wished it told you how to increase your score, or how it even decided how to build the score.  A lot of unanswered questions and you should know how to find all of the top 50 already.

The benefit was the local map where you could find a handful of people you may not know about that were rated well.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Location services,

May 28, 2009 • 2:04 pm 2

TwitMapr – locate users in your area and put yourself on the map

TwitMapr is a simple Google mashup that shows the location of Twitterers so you can easily find and add people in particular areas.  While other sites do this also, they just took the twist of showing it as pinpoints on a map.  You can also enter your own name to be added to the map itself.  Not much else to see or do.

Filed under: Location services, , ,

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