Andrew Mager

Category Archives: Geography

Three reasons why Brightkite will survive

It complements Twitter - It’s really easy to update BrightKite from the web, or your mobile device. It’s not a Twitter clone either. Twitter is the what, BrightKite is the where. It’s fun to see where your friends are. You can also embed photos in your posts, so it’s a rich experience.

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BrightKite already better than Dodgeball, Groovr

I just got invited to Brightkite today and I was really impressed. It’s a geo-microblog like Google’s Dodgeball or Groovr.

I have one invite left, if you comment here, it’s yours. But you better hurry!

Twitter Atlas may have leg up on Twittervision

Check out this new Twitter mashup:

I like how the new Twittervision has a login feature now, but this new Atlas application looks pretty impressive. The Microsoft maps look sharper when zoomed in too.

The Phone Experiment

Luke Johnson put his phone number on YouTube, and invited anyone to call him.

He has heard from over 55,000 people in a month! In an interview with CNN, he said the weirdest call so far was from an older guy who asked him if he was ticklish.

He also said that his favorite salutations are from […]

SketchUp Your World

Google Earth gets better every day.

With the help of their acquisition of SketchUp, a 3-D modeling program, Google aims to get every major college campus into their Earth browser. Students are encouraged to draw their campus–not just a bland, geometric box outline of the buildings, but detailed, photo-matched 3-D visualizations of them.
This looks very hard […]

Imagine Driving Across The Country

My dear old Mom and her husband Bob are driving from the southeast corner of Washington State to their new home in the southeast corner of Virginia.

I can’t imagine a week’s worth of straight driving and sleeping.