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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Pin a Post from Banjo and other LBS News

Pin a Post, a free application that goes live in Apple and Google app stores today [8/23], lets users save social media posts emanating from a specific spot that they want to refer back to later.

“It’s Pinterest for location,” said Damien Patton, founder and chief executive of Redwood City, California-based Banjo. Like the popular site for saving collections of photos from around the Web, Pin a Post serves as a bookmarking service for consumers of social media.

The new app was built in three days. It's hard to say if that's a selling point or not!

- Bloomberg

Craigslist has been adament about any apps that try to map its offerings. I recall John Dvorak going on about how is son was shut down by the company. But now...

Craigslist is apparently working on a map tool of its own. Oh, and while it’s doing its best to discourage web openness, it’s also using an open crowd-sourced platform to build out Craigslist maps. 

Yep, the app is built on OpenStreetMap.

- Talking Point Memo broke the story which I found on Betabeat (quoted above)

The Next Web has reached out to Google for comment. While there has been no official announcement or communication indicating that the [weather] API has been closed, it is noteworthy that iGoogle — the product that the API serviced — is now using Wundergrond.com instead, as you can see in these two examples: 94102 and Mountain View. This would suggest the search giant has knowingly made the switch.

Google's @ManoMarks asks in a tweet if they are tarlking aboutan "undocumented API people were using without tos?"

- The Next Web via @cageyjames

by Adena Schutzberg on 08/28 at 04:28 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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