CellGuided is a modern version of traditional treasure hunts. Use a mobile phone to receive directions and solve clues. Any mobile phone will work! No need to fiddle with GPS, SMS, installing applications, etc.

With CellGuided you can create routes, share them with your friends or publish them for all to enjoy.

Read more about it here.

You’ve arrived in a new city, a new continent, a new coffee shop. You don’t really know where you are, and are looking for a good place to eat. You pull out your laptop, fire up Firefox, and go to your favorite review site. It automatically deduces your location, and serves up some delicious suggestions a couple blocks away and plots directions there.

In order for this to be a possibility, your browser needs to know where you are.

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SKOUT enables users of virtually any mobile device currently available to create content—messages, photos, videos—with their handsets and post it to the SKOUT network from any location. SKOUT’s unique location-based software notifies other logged-in users within a predefined radius that someone nearby has posted new information. This enables end users, if they choose, to act and connect live. Whether it’s meeting a friend based on a picture of their location, dropping in on a nearby happy hour promoted by a local bar owner, or taking a chance and meeting someone new because they just posted a cool video, SKOUT offers a new way for people to have fun and connect with others.

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Hostip.info is a community-based project to geolocate IP addresses, making the database freely available (see below) but it needs you to put in your city to make it work. It only takes 10 seconds, and you’ll get a warm fuzzy feeling of ‘doing the right thing’

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The project “the pain of everyday life” is a city-intervention and a digital art performance addressing public and private space within the realm of everyday constraints. It resembles an urban interface for an invisible city, an architecture which is subconsciously perceived and which constantly oscillates as resonant landscape, consisting of electromagnetic waves.

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OpenWiFiSpots is a comprehensive directory of free wireless (WiFi) hotspots continuously updated by a growing community of users. The easy to use interactive mapping system allows you to find hotspots in any area throughout the United States.

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Our mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There’s a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as “Web 2.0″; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.

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Meraki is bringing free wireless Internet to San Francisco!

Over 40,000 people have used Free the Net to connect to the Internet already and we’re not slowing down until our wireless network covers all of San Francisco!

We’re sending thousands of free Meraki repeaters to city residents. Each of these little boxes spreads the network and strengthens the signal, bringing free Internet access to you and your neighbors.

Read more about it here.

This is a mashup of Google Maps, Google Search, Flickr, and hostip.info.

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