On machine tags, places, uploaders, concordance, and a todo list from those beyond the veil. So many lovely turns of phrase, so many things to play with.

If I actually *used* Latitude, this might be useful. As it is, I'd be better pulling locations out of Twitter and Foursquare. Mind you, the moon banner is a bit Jones/Dopplr-y, although not as nice (obviously).

Flickr adds supports for more prettified joins between services, using machine tag extras as the source. Lots of questions and observations I should split into a note, but for now: hurrah, and it's nice to see this launched, especially for Dopplr.

It's always nice to see machine tags as site joins natively supported. Hurrah for straup, Flickr, and Jones for an excellent documenting screengrab. (Shameless plug: install the GM userscript from snaptrip and you'll see trip tags prettified too.)

I need to steal, well, pretty much all of these for snaptrip, except per-country trips, which it already does (hurrah). Per-mode distances should be a quick hack on the current infrastructure [edit:done]. Personalised Flickr images and CSV export had come up before, but are no less good as ideas for that. Trip categorisation by stashing tags sounds like a nice idea. And I never did finish my 2008 stats graphs. So many ideas.

A nice little project from Matt Biddulph that somewhat overlaps with Where? What? When? and my thoughts on the similarities, and a sort of public todo list.

Matt Jones on friendship and sharing - a lovely presentation at Picnic.

I think I'm going to move to using all the tags he mentions here, as well as offering to put in "proper" location data (with the flickr.geo methods). Also- nice hack, and a really good prod for me.

mattb on Dopplr: "browsing your old trips (and those that people have shared with you) should be a bit like browsing through a good blog archive. There should be a search mechanism, a calendar overview, and a page per trip that brings together everything we know about it."

"you can use (drum solo, please) Flickr::Upload::FireEagle to not only geotag your photos but, in turn, use your photos to update FireEagle itself"

"It was fanastic. In literally less than 3 minutes, I'd gone from frantic about making my flight to all the way to the metal detector" "anybody who's a privacy zealot is not gonna be able to get behind the whole Clear thing."

"it is possible to cut individual emissions by around 75 per cent without seriously altering our lifestyles." "The simple truth is that frequent fliers have carbon footprints ten times bigger than the rest of us"

Looks like a nice Dopplr API addon, when it launches. Looks like he's taking note of feature requests too.

A nice little hack from Tom.