Tweet near your buddy: BeThere
BeThere is one of the hacks I did for Warblecamp a few months back. It uses Twitter’s @anywhere API to connect and authenticate with Twitter.
From there it runs through your timeline looking for your friends’ geo data. When you click on a friend, it’ll show them on the map (if there’s no geo data it won’t), and you can tweet from the same location as them - the ultimate in travelling to see friends without leaving your sofa!
This demo is very experimental - in fact I find I have to refresh sometimes when it doesn’t load properly. It was hacked over about 3 hours with very little sleep - so please forgive me!
I do plan to release this a fully fledge app for those people who want to protect (and play) with their privacy on Twitter though - so watch my space!
What they said and where they said it
Whilst seb_ly was caught out somewhere in Europe making his way home overland due to the volcano, he was tweeting as he went along.
I decided to capture the geo info on those tweets and map it out on Google maps.
This demo uses only the JavaScript you see in the page to work looping through all the tweets to plot a journey of an individual via Twitter’s geo tagging.
HEX to RGB
Almost finished micro app for getting rgb from hex and visa versa. Works on the iPhone too.
