Topic: It’s Time For An Open Database Of Places

[sam]

With last week’s declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates of geo-coded Tweets, the location land rush is in full swing. A long list of companies including Twitter, Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, SimpleGeo, Loopt, and Citysearch are far along in creating separate databases of places mapped to their geo-coordinates.  Mapping businesses, in particular, to the GPS locations near where people are checking in, Tweeting from or pegging a photo is the first step to be able to show them geo-targeted ads, which could help fuel local mobile online advertising in a major way.

 http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/open-database-places/

[Rik]

Money makes the world go around

[sam]

  indeed it does.

[Clive]

Life is a cabaret old chum.   

[Rik]

How many do you think we could squeeze in, Clive? Today's your day, but tomorrow belongs to me.

[Clive]

How I loved that film Rik.  Up until then I hated musicals but Cabaret changed all that.  There are moments in it that still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. 

[Simon]

...and the three on your head? 

[Rik]

Wow, an outbreak.

[sam]

 

[Clive]

I think one of the three just fell out!   

[Rik]

We'll send out a search party, Clive.

[Simon]

Hair today, gone tomorrow. 

[Rik]

[Simon]

Clive's been using Wash 'n' Go shampoo.   

[Rik]

He'll need a 'ne' tomorrow then.