Tag: GEOLOCATION

Ever wonder how easy it would be for someone to track your every move? You can now find out with a new app called 'Creepy.' Created by 26-year-old Yiannis Kakavas, 'Creepy' is a software package that allows users to pinpoint anyone's location, using geographic data embedded within shared photos. All you have to do is type in a person's Twitter or Flickr username, and hit the 'Geolocate ...

The U.S. Air Force is apparently concerned that its troops aren't the brightest crayons in the box. Officials are worried that careless updating of social networks that compile geolocation data -- like Foursquare, Facebook's Places and Twitter -- could reveal the forces' locations. Concerns about social media are nothing new in the military, but location-based services pose a particular problem ...

A new site called JustSpotted provides Web surfers with the latest geographic locations of over 7,000 celebrities, based on user-submitted sightings and aggregated data from social networking sites. Set to launch on Tuesday, the site was originally designed with licensed software from Twitter, which would've allowed the company to automatically filter out every tweet pertaining to high-profile ...

Share Since March, at least, we've known that Facebook Places has been coming. We also knew that, despite its built-in audience, Facebook would have to offer more functionality than established location-based services like Foursquare if it hoped to succeed. Finally, after months of testing, Zuckerberg and crew have taken the cover off Places, and entered a brand new realm of usage. You'll be ...

Really, it was only a matter of time. China already blocks Facebook, Twitter and Google, so it's no surprise to see the geolocation-based social game Foursquare added to that list. Details surrounding the censorship are not entirely clear, as with most things coming out of the country. It is widely believed, however, that the blockage is connected to the 21st anniversary of the massacre at ...

Share Facebook has made clear its intent to incorporate location-based technology into its platform. And McDonald's has made clear its intent to shed its unhealthy, fatty factory image. So the two have joined forces to bring location-based services to the world's most sedentary population: McDonald's customers. Soon, fast food fanatics will be able to check in on Facebook from any McDonald's ...

Plenty of apps and Web sites have tried to add an element of locality to Twitter. But most of the solutions have been been pretty clumsy, requiring a user to either insert a link to longitude-latitude coordinates on Google Maps, or performing a search based on a user-provided ZIP code. Just announced features and application programming interfaces (APIs) from Twitter, though, will make these ...