Online Maps as Popular Entertainment

An article in The New York Times Magazine looks at online maps as popular entertainment: “[T]he really interesting stuff comes not from the massive compilation of information by a giant corporation” — i.e., Google — “but rather from the creative projects of smaller entities that find interesting ways to mine and tweak that information.”

Online Maps as Popular Entertainment first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on December 31, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

Online Maps as Popular Entertainment

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GetGlue: Foursquare for Entertainment Nuts (WebPro News)

If someone were to ask you to name the trendy social services right now, more than likely they’d say Facebook , Twitter and Foursquare ... as those seem to be the “ big 3 ”. They’re interchangeable - as some would select GoWalla over Foursquare and MySpace over Facebook, it’s subjective. Fairly soon you might start hearing another service joining the ranks of the social elite, GetGlue .

Source : WebPro News

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