I am geography lecturer at the University of Manchester. This blog is a place to post details on research activities and various interests.

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Squidoo is a hand-built collection of half a million pages built by people just like you.

Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.

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Hi, I’m Ian Bogost. I am a videogame researcher, critic, and designer, as well as an author and an entrepreneur. I am a professor at Georgia Tech (a university), a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games (a videogame studio), and a Board Member at Open Texture (an educational publisher).

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The Presidio Archaeology Lab created an amazing GIS overlay of Sal’s 1792 plan of the original San Francisco Presidio, triangulating the position from excavations performed by the many field schools over the years. Using the GIS overlay as a guide

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With the advent of free mapping tools like Google Maps, we have seen more and more developers add location-aware functionality and content into their web and mobile applications. This, along with the growth of location providing technologies such as GPS, Wi-Fi triangulation and IP Geolocation make the browser an ideal broker for the users location information.

The goal of the Location Aware Working Group is to work closely with browser vendors, device makers, Web-application developers, content providers, and other interested parties to make location-aware browsing a reality. By standardizing the way in which browsers determine a user’s geolocation and the way in which Web applications obtain that information — while still ensuring protection of user control over privacy — we hope to increase the overall adoption and growth of location-based services on the Web as a whole.

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This is a new website where you can post content about places you’ve been. At any location on the planet, you can post a blog, podcast, video, wiki, or a photo telling the community what you find interesting about that place. You can also start a location based discussion through the map forums. In addition, you have the ability to maintain buddylists, keep track of your favorite posts, filter the map based on location and content tags, send private messages to other users, and last but not least you can post comments.

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The Local Blogosphere: Everything Happens Somewhere

A list of blog posts related to mapping and places. All entries are geotaged. Read more about it here.

This is my personal blog focused on geospatial technology. Most of the focus is on the large players in the field such as ESRI, Microsoft, Google, NAVTEQ, Mapquest, Oracle and open source GIS (OSGeo). That said, almost anything related to maps, programming or technology is discussed.

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