Another idea, this time for Twitter/FireEagle mash-up. Out there in a wild there’s a number of apps, which can update your FireEagle location, or Twitter status/location, or both, or take it from one and put to another… What I here suggest is a most simple thing you can probably imagine.
It’s simple, really: a service which monitors your location on FireEagle and Twitter and why should we limit us just with two services? Any location-based service which has an open API will do. Whenever it detects that you have updated a location on one of the services, it broadcasts it to all others - so you can you use favourite Twitter client (say, TwitterPhone) to update your FireEagle location, and keep your Twitter location up-to-date whenever you launch Yofe on your iPhone.
Anyone wanna take it? :)
An idea for geo/twitter mash-up for #openhackday - a service, which geocodes all tweets and places them on a map. Seriously, it may work - Yahoo! GeoPlanet is a perfect tool for doing it!
An extended idea – display the map with bubbles, size of the bubble indicate number of tweets, clicking on the bubble fire up the feed of tweets geocoded to this location.
Another idea for geolocation-related service. C’mon, I give it out for free!
- Using GPS-enabled communication device, defining zones - “Home”, “Work”, “Parents”, “Tesco over the corner”
- Assigning each zone some tasks:
- “Home” -> “Pay the bill from nPower”
- “Work” -> “Talk to boss about holidays”
- “Parents” -> “Ask if they’ll take our cat for two weeks”
- “Tesco” -> “No sugar at home! How can I drink coffee now?”
- Well… start walking! As soon as you get into one of the zones, your GPS enabled device will blow up with a burst of reminders.
Few issues though, one of them - constant checking of GPS location may be too battery-consuming. Possible workaround - do a geolocation of several levels:
- Most rough - GSM-based positioning
- If we understand, that we’re somewhere in the area of one of the zones - try to use wi-fi geolocation
- If we’re really close to the zone - do a beep
- If wi-fi positioning isn’t available - use (A-)GPS.
This way it may save awful amount of battery power while still providing good positioning.
Anyone up for doing such thingie? :-)
