Mar 30
Handling Real-Time Geostreams
I know I've been giving a lot of Twitter-location talks, but this one is fundamentally different. Basically, I used my talk at Where 2.0 to give a master's class on how we thought about location, and how we implemented location. I finally was able to talk about Rock Dove, our back-end infrastructure for storing places and how we built our infrastructure:
Twitter has launched a Geotagging API – we really wanted to enable users to not only talk about “What’s happening?” but also “What’s happening right here?” For a while now, we’ve been watching as users have been trying to geo-tag their tweets through a variety of methods, all of which involve a link to a map service embedded in their Tweet. This talk will delve into how Twitter handles their geocontent including tool suggestions.As a platform, we’ve tried to make it easier for our users by making location be omnipresent through our platform, and an inherent (but optional) part of a tweet. We’re making the platform be not just about time, but also about place.
@mager wrote up a good overview of my talk over at "The Web Life" on ZDNet. Rumor has it, as well, that a video will be posted at some point as well.
