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2008

Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available as an external API.

# 12th May 2008, 9:02 pm / fireeagle, apis, location, flickr, geocoding, upcoming, whereonearth, yahoo

2007

Oxford Geek Night 3 (via) The date for your diary is July 25th (moved from the 18th).

# 2nd June 2007, 12:38 am / conferences, events, oxford, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordgeeks, upcoming

oxfordgeeks.net

Nat and I had a bit of a mini-hackday this bank holiday Monday. Nat’s been doing a great job summoning local geeks out of the woodwork with Oxford Geek Nights event, but it’s still pretty hard to find other interesting events in the Oxfordshire area. It’s not that there aren’t any, it’s just that the geek community in Oxford is currently pretty fragmented.

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1:20 am / 29th May 2007 / django, flickr, natalie-downe, nginx, oxford, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordgeeks, planetvenus, python, upcoming

The New Upcoming. No more metros! Upcoming is now hooked in to Yahoo!’s WhereOnEarth data, meaning plenty of geocoded brilliance.

# 20th April 2007, 12:13 am / geocoding, upcoming, yahoo, whereonearth

2006

Introducing Operator. New microformat detecting Firefox extension, developed at IBM and released by Mozilla Labs. Examples are from Yahoo! Local, Upcoming and Flickr.

# 18th December 2006, 4:36 pm / extension, firefox, ibm, microformats, flickr, mozilla, mozillalabs, upcoming, yahoo

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