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Vizible Is The Location-Based, Picture-Only Twitter Client Of Your Dreams
When you search Twitter for specific hashtags, you’ll find yourself drowning under a sea of useless results. And there’s no way to narrow your search to images only, if that’s what you’re in the market for. Fortunately for you, Vizible takes on that role and gives you a clean view of nothing but images, all happening right around you.
Watch An Entire Year Of Foursquare Check-Ins Light Up NYC And Tokyo
We all see the occasional check-in on our social networks of choice, but Foursquare took a whole year of them and crammed them into one glorious minute of glowing information. The whole mess of data is condensed down into a colour-coded 24-hour span so you can see how people — Foursquarers at least — dart around almost ceaselessly, only stopping to rest in the most wee hours of the morning.
Some Guy Gets Blamed For Lost Phones Because Of Location Glitch
Las Vegas, the amazing place that sucks souls, wallets and dignities, is also really good at swallowing mobile phones. Drunk, partying, WHOOPS. And whenever a phone is lost, people who use location services to find their lost phones always seem to track it back to the same place: Wayne Dobson’s house.
Knowing The Real-Life Location Of These Tweets Makes Me Feel Dirty
Twitter is modern-day people-watching. Anytime you check it, you see what a person is thinking or doing or saying. But it’s not all happening in a digital vacuum, they’re on break at work tweeting about their boss, they’re outside a hospital tweeting about their day, they’re somewhere tweeting about something. This photo project, Geolocations, by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman show where people are when they send out tweets. It’s completing the picture.
How Your Phone Could Pinpoint Your Location Down To One Step
Knowing exactly where you are on the face of the earth gives your smartphone wonderful location-specific capabilities. But GPS can only tell you what building you’re in, not where you are in it. So STMicroelectronics has developed an advanced pressure sensing chip that can determine your vertical elevation down to what floor you’re standing on.
