Is Apple Adding Panoramic Photography To Your iPhone? (AAPL)

After iOS 5 was revealed at WWDC 2011, many odds and ends have popped up which seem to indicate awesome new features like 1080p video, unsecured call protection, and more.

Now there's word that Apple might be looking to include panoramic photo-taking abilities in iOS 5.

Bits of code inside the developer beta of iOS 5 contain the words "take panorama," "save panorama," and "PANO_OPTION." 

The feature would let you hold up your phone and move it around your body as you shoot pictures. The phone would then stitch together photos into one cool panoramic image.

There are plenty of great panoramic camera iPhone apps that are definitely going to shed a tear when they hear this news.

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HUGE: Foursquare Revamps Its App, Adding Recommendation Feature

Foursquare just announced a massive revamp of its Android and iPhone apps and it looks very intriguing.

The biggest change is a new section called, "explore," which will give Foursquare users recommendations on what to do. CEO Dennis Crowley explains the new feature:

The suggestions are based on a little bit of everything – the places you’ve been, the places your friends have visited, your loyalty to your favorite places, the categories and types of places you gravitate towards, what’s popular with other users, the day of the week, places with great tips, the time of day, and so on. We’ll even tell you why we think you should visit a certain place (e.g. popular with friends, similar to your favorite spots). You’ll find it’s helpful for general things like “food”, “coffee”, “nightlife” (we built in quick access to these searches) and you’ll be surprised by what you get when searching for really specific things, like “80s music,” “fireplaces,” “pancakes,” “bratwurst,” and “romantic.” The more random you get, the more interesting the results get (though be patient with this first release… sometimes we can’t find every random thing).

This has the potential to be huge for Foursquare. First off, it's just good for users to know where they can go. Second, just like Google search, it creates a massive advertising opportunity. Restaurants, bars, whatever, can target search results and serve up ads and offers right in the app.

Foursquare also tweaked its leaderboard and its offers for checkins. The leaderboard update allows people to get more points for different kinds of checkins. Foursquare is now serving up specials to "swarms, groups of friends, regulars, newbies, Mayors, or simply to everyone," says Crowley. He also says there will be a new notification system for those offers.

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Foursquare Finally Adding Photos To Its App

Big news out of Foursquare this morning: It's finally adding photos to its iPhone app, as well as the ability to comment on the photo.

This is a feature that has been a long time coming for Foursquare. (We first heard about it back in May.)

It's a good thing it's finally arriving.

Instagram, PicPlz, Path and a number of other social photo sharing apps are starting to take off.

As they grow, the utility of Foursquare falls. Therefore, adding photos was a must.

(Also, it should be noted, Facebook really took off when it added photos.)

Your photos will only be viewable by your friends and people in your network. If you leave a photo as a tip or as a venue photo, then it's public.

Foursquare says it's working on integration with other photos sharing applications. It also says the Android app with photo sharing should be ready next week.

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Mobile Music Soars In Usage After Adding GeoSocial Features

This from Skyhook wireless as the company notes that mobile apps apps ShareTunes and SongStumblr, mobile music apps that use Skyhook’s location technology managed to grow their user base and loyalty thanks to Geo social.  Intersect World LLC’s music apps have now been downloaded over 2.5 million times with huge growth experienced after adding geosocial [...]

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Slashgeo: Mapbiquity.com Services Ease Adding Maps to Websites

Glenn Letham on his GISUser Blog reported the launch of Mapbiquity's new web mapping tools, "Here’s a tip off about a cool, new web service that enables anyone to easily and quickly create, embed, and share a map." Full story here...

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Mapbiquity.com Services Ease Adding Maps to Websites

Glenn Letham on his GISUser Blog reported the launch of Mapbiquity's new web mapping tools, "Here’s a tip off about a cool, new web service that enables anyone to easily and quickly create, embed, and share a map." Full story here...

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Can Adding Staff Curators Help Digg Recover?

Digg hasn't had an easy time of it over the past few months, with a major redesign that many users disliked, and a new CEO. Now the site is using human editors to recommend links, but will that help it recover its lost glory?

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Adding Project Server 2010 Web App Parts to SharePoint Sites

Microsoft published updated contents for Project Server 2010. Why's this important, well because it provides clear guidance on Project Server 2010 web parts and how they can be integrate/reused outside of the out of the box Project Web App pages.

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