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Infographic of the Day: Using Flickr Geotags to Map the World's Cities [UPDATED]

Photographer Eric Fischer uses Flickr's geotags to create city maps that show the places of intense human interest.READ MORE

Tweet-Mapping Arrives, Along with the Twitter's Battle Against Google

Twitter's geotagging powers could transform the lifecasting service into something extremely powerful. And the company's just taken the first steps to making this happen through its own Web page: It's turned on Tweet mapping. ...READ MORE

OMG: The Future of Retail Design Is Augmented-Reality Facades

Click a pic of a building, and get info on all the inhabitants.READ MORE

Geotagging's Seasonal Danger: Burglary

I love the geotag concept--marking photos/Tweets and such with their Earth coordinates--and I think we'll all be doing it more in the future, for many reasons. I'm just worried we shouldn't be doing it this month. Thanks to bad ...READ MORE

How Much Is That Google in the Window Threatening Foursquare's Local Business Game?

We already know Google wants to be everything for everyone in search. Now they're extending that goal into the real world, sticking physical tags on the windows of actual businesses from its online Favorite Places catalog. Should ...READ MORE

Foursquare Makes Geotagging Generous, Points to Charity's AR Future

Foursquare's already a technology to keep your eye on if you're interested in geotagging, augmented reality, social gaming, and hyper-local ads, but it's just added a new attraction just in time for the Holidays: Charity, for New ...READ MORE

Twitter 360 App Gives Tweets Some Augmented Reality Love

I got all excited about Twitter's geotagging feature before, and now it's getting a new spin that wraps in another neat technology: Augmented reality. Enter Twitter 360, an AR iPhone App that puts Tweets in a global navigational ...READ MORE

Layar iPhone App Now Available, Augmented Reality Is No Longer Science Fiction

Layar's free AR browser has arrived in iPhone App Store. And it could become one of the device's killer apps.READ MORE

Did Augmented Reality Just Get the Real World Database It Needs to Thrive?

Augmented Reality may well be the killer app for GPS and compass-empowered smartphones, but the tech has a significant drawback--it requires accurate points of interest to make it useful. A new start-up, L.A.-based unit called ...READ MORE

Duke Researchers Use Photo-Acoustic "Fingerprints" to Locate Mobile Phones Indoors

Computer engineers have come up with a way to use smartphones' microphones, cameras, and accelerometers, to identify a person's location in the end all and be all of indoor mazes: the shopping mall.READ MORE

Now You Can Make Phone Calls From Twitter, Thanks to Jajah

Twitter's about to get a fascinating new tool in its social communications toolbox courtesy of Jajah: Phone calling. It's a VOIP solution that will work for anyone with a Twitter account. Does this signal a future as an extensive ...READ MORE

Nokia Spins "Lifecasting" App, Forgets It's Really Facebook's Mojo

Nokia's moving fast to catch up with current tech memes: As well as leaping into the smartbook and netbook fray, it's also getting into social net "lifecasting" thanks to a new Ovi app that connects to Facebook. That all sounds ...READ MORE

Geotagging: Twitter's Killer Feature?

We've written about Twitter's upcoming Tweet geotagging a couple of times, but with news on how excited it's got Twitter developers, maybe it's time to wonder: Is geotagging Twitter's killer feature? Let's think about it. Over at ...READ MORE

Now Twitter Knows Where You Are, so What Happens Next?

Twitter's about to unveil a new feature that taps into another developing social networking trick: Geolocation. The ability to pinpoint your location will happen automatically within the Tweet's code, and it has some big ...READ MORE

Augmented Reality Is Here: Layar Goes Global on Android

We've written about Layar, which brings Augmented Reality skills to your smartphone, before--but now the company announced it's taking the app global, with a whole new bunch of content. It's quite possibly the biggest AR event ...READ MORE

Metaio's Augmented Reality Trick Lets You Metatag the Real World

Augmented reality and smartphones are a techno match made in heaven, and the whole idea is about to take a fascinating turn thanks to some new software from Metaio: It'll let you metatag real-world objects. Sounds confusing? It ...READ MORE

Eye-Fi's Geo Card Makes Photos Location-Aware

Eye-Fi's wireless SD cards already simplify the task of sending pics from a digital camera to your hard drive, and now it's got a version that also auto-geotags the photos--and it's especially aimed at Mac users. That's thanks to ...READ MORE

Microsoft to Tackle Google Street View With Crowd-Sourced App [UPDATED]

Google's Street View app, alongside Google Earth, has ever-so-slightly changed the world--buying a house may never be the same again, for one thing, nor will smartphone-based navigation. And that's probably why another tech giant ...READ MORE