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[Idea] Twitter Timezone

alx — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:23:12 +0000

One of the interesting part with Twitter is its worldwide use. On my Twitter, I usually get European twitts at the end of the afternoon, and South-American twitts during the night.

Comparing my twitting habits with those of my friends, each one of us could have a twitting timezone, that we’ll be surely different even if you live in the same ‘real’ timezone.

Here is a screenshot of what could be the result:

It could be easily done using the API, unfortunatly, Twitter reduce the API use to one request per minute, so it’ll take one hour to build such a timezone with all your 60 friends… but I’m pretty sure someone will have fun to do something like this soon.

[Street] Urban florist

alx — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:03:19 +0000

What’s the need to go to the florist when you can collect in a city full of open gardens?

Here is a map of freely available flowers in Toulouse:

RSS extension: GeoRSS

alx — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:58:53 +0000

Reading about Google Maps API today, I discovered GeoRSS features:

Some simple xml elements to add in item elements:

43.127697 -77.573776

43.127697
-77.573776

Add it to Flickr feeds with a simple attribute (georss=1): http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[...]&format=rss_200&georss=1

Wordpress extented by GeoRSS plugin can be ready in 5 minutes and do miracles.