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Twitter Trajectories and Our Ever Shrinking Small World

On January 10, 2011 By Sean Gorman

When we were doing the Twitter Black Friday analysis I started to get curious about how Tweets can give us insights to the trajectories of people. Lots of folks travel over Thanksgiving and likely even more get out of the house on Black Friday to do some shopping. We were curious how far from [...]

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Add Your Foursquare Check-ins to Geocommons

On September 21, 2009 By admin

At the GeoCommons Office some of us are into Foursquare.  Foursquare is a location based game with social networking aspects.  Essentially when you go somewhere you “check-in” and you can get points for that.  Whoever has the most check-ins at a location becomes the “Mayor” of that location.  Here is the page for [...]

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Links List 12.19.08

On December 19, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Many companies are on Twitter, but how are they using this social media tool? Glenn Letham of GISuser discusses how organizations, for example ESRI, use Twitter to keep their readers informed of industry and company news as well as a communication tool to their customers. Letham encourages other GIS/Geo Technology companies [...]

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Links List 8.8.08

On August 8, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It’s been three years since Hurricane Katrina hit and with hurricane season here, it is no wonder why the Lt. Governor of Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu, stated the importance of Google Street Maps to the New Orleans community. The tool offers the people the opportunity to view the progression in New Orleans. For a [...]

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Links List 6.27.08

On June 27, 2008 By Sean Gorman

With Monday’s unveiling of Google’s Map Maker, Google account holders now have the ability to edit and add to certain Google Maps. The Map Maker currently only allows for map editing in a select group of countries including Cyprus, Iceland, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Caribbean nations. Functions of the tool include [...]

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Links List 5.16.08

On May 16, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Mashable reports that Google Maps features a new API that has flash graphics that can be used for each title layer, maker and information windows. This means you can create more dynamic map mashups.

Not only does Google Maps have flash graphics, but they have also added the ability for video sharing, Wikipedia entries, [...]

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Map Creation Apps – Google vs. Microsoft vs. Yahoo

On April 9, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I promised Andrew a comparison of the big three map creation applications by feature and functionality, so here it goes. The story of how lightweight web based map creation applications came to be is interesting in and of itself. I think looking at how the three applications evolved historically will provide a bit of [...]

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Gold for Romney and Threat of Mr. "Uncommitted" to Clinton

On January 18, 2008 By admin

Economy was the number 1 issue for Michigan Republicans and they voted in large numbers for Mr. Romney. Michigan has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the U.S. Huge job losses in manufacturing sector, mainly due to down-turn in Michigan’s auto-industry has voters worried about the future. Romney’s “optimistic” message [...]

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The New Comeback kid vis the New Kid on the block: 2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary

On January 10, 2008 By admin

Clinton’s come-from-behind stunning victory in the New Hampshire Primary makes her the New Comeback Kid. Below is a heatmap of spatial distribution of Clinton’s votes by cities/towns and places in the southern New Hampshire.

We at FortiusOne further analyzed voting patterns to find spatial distribution of where Obama, the [...]

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Gold goes to McCain: 2008 New Hampshire Republican Primary

On January 10, 2008 By admin

Romney in his concession speech referred to his second place finish as winning a silver medal, that makes McCain the gold medalist and Huckabee a bronze winner. Here are the results for the top three candidates, McCain (37% ~88,400) Romney (32% ~75,200) and Huckabee (11% ~26,600). We at FortiusOne further analyzed [...]

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