Sunday, February 24. 2008

Twixtr - Twitter for (Geocoded) Images

To keep up on new media I just added a new podcast to my regular list: "For Immediate Release." Some good tech stuff, in addition to PR fiasco's like the bugaboo caused when an anonymous source noted that Edelman teaches its staff to lie on behalf of clients. (From the top execs at Edelman: they do not!)

Anyway, of note this week was another social networking service from FON - a quick, mobile image services - sort of Twitter for images. It's called Twixtr and the big news for geo types - it automatigally geotags pictures with the location from which they were sent. The current client is for the (jailbroken) iPhone (others to follow). And, there's a public API. But of course, this is all in beta, so all the usual warnings apply.

Now about that geotagging - it's called "location guessing." (I like the truth in advertising there!) Per the FON founder's blog post, that geo information comes from cell carriers: "Also thanks to cell providers the iPhone also has some rudimentary geolocalization so that is tagged to the Twitx." I thought iPhone location information was from Skyhook.

In any case, while many are noting "we already have too many of these" things like Twitter, the one hot spot seems to be the addition of location.

via Simon Says blog (he's one of the guys on the FIR podcast)

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Social Networking at 13:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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