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	<link>http://hitching.net</link>
	<description>a blog by bob hitching</description>
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		<title>GeoMeme adds MySpace real-time local trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In other news, GeoMeme now measures real-time local trends based on both MySpace and Twitter content.
GeoMeme uses the new Real-Time Stream API from MySpace to tap into the flood of geo-located updates being posted by MySpace users all around the world.

MySpace content is mashed up with tweets from a number of mobile Twitter apps, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2010/03/04/geomeme-adds-myspace-real-time-local-trends/</link>
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		<title>Mobile awesomeness, innovation and disruption</title>
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The good people at MitchelLake recently asked me to write an article about mobile technology.
So I created a list of awesomeness, innovation and disruption, including topics such as ‘Mobile is big’, ‘Phones are getting better’, and ‘People pay for stuff on their phones’.
Here’s the full article; 10 awesome, innovative and disruptive things about mobile.
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		<link>http://hitching.net/2010/03/03/mobile-awesomeness-innovation-and-disruption/</link>
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		<title>Murdoch should worry less about the Googlebot and more about social media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember in January 2000, old media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was not going to waste his money buying any &#8216;dotcom&#8217; upstarts. The very next day, AOL bought Time Warner. Not the other way around!
Murdoch had apparently failed to grasp the significance of the interwebs.
However, ten years later Time Warner has regained its mojo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/11/14/murdoch-should-worry-less-about-the-googlebot-and-more-about-social-media/</link>
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		<title>OpenAustralia Hackfest: &#8216;Mobile + Geo + Social&#8217; slides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I popped into the OpenAustralia Hackfest at the weekend to learn and talk about some of the latest developments in the Gov2.0 revolution.
There are now some quite interesting public datasets available, and the developer community is hard at work turning this data into useful APIs, and building innovative applications to consume the data.
Some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/11/11/openaustralia-hackfest-mobile-geo-social-slides/</link>
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		<title>Location-aware mobile web apps using Google Maps v3 + geolocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When hiring Engineers, I always look for evidence of pet projects, so recently I thought it was fair to create one of my own: GeoMeme, the fun way to measure and share real-time local twitter trends.
Visitors to GeoMeme choose a location on the map, and two search terms to compare. GeoMeme then measures and compares [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/11/10/location-aware-mobile-web-apps-using-google-maps-v3-geolocation/</link>
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		<title>Scalable, fast, accurate geo apps using Google App Engine + geohash + faultline correction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GeoMeme is a web app (and also a mobile web app for iPhone and Android) that I recently developed as a pet project. It measures real-time local twitter trends. 
Visitors to GeoMeme choose a location on the map, and two search terms to compare. GeoMeme then measures and compares the number of matching tweets within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/11/10/scalable-fast-accurate-geo-apps-using-google-app-engine-geohash-faultline-correction/</link>
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		<title>Fast map re-location using Google Static Maps v2 + geocoder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GeoMeme is a pet project of mine. It&#8217;s a web app, and also a mobile web app for iPhone and Android, that measures real-time local twitter trends.
Visitors to GeoMeme choose a location on the map, and two search terms to compare. GeoMeme then measures and compares the number of matching tweets within the bounds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/11/10/fast-map-re-location-using-google-static-maps-v2-geocoder/</link>
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		<title>Xumii acquired by Myriad Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Exciting news: Xumii has been acquired by Myriad Group (SIX:MYRN). We are now part of Europe&#8217;s largest mobile technology business with software in more than 2 billion phones.
This is great for Xumii as it means we can take our mobile social networking platform to the next level. And it&#8217;s a great win for Australian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/09/17/xumii-acquired-by-myriad-group/</link>
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		<title>GeoMeme: measure and share real-time local twitter trends</title>
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I am pleased to announce the launch of GeoMeme, the fun way to measure and share real-time local twitter trends.
I got thinking about this when a recent Los Angeles earthquake was being measured in tweets per second rather than using the Richter Scale.
Then came the Magnitwude Calculator as a standard way to measure the magnitude [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/09/13/geomeme-measure-and-share-real-time-local-twitter-trends/</link>
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		<title>How to measure Twitter trending topics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 has already seen some big Twitter moments, including Michael Jackson&#8217;s death and memorial service, #iranelection, Oprah&#8217;s mainstreaming, and the race between @aplusk and @cnn to reach 1 million followers.
But how can we objectively measure and compare the scale of such things?
A little while ago I got thinking about this when a Los Angeles earthquake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/07/20/how-to-measure-twitter-trending-topics/</link>
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		<title>Wave goodbye to spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Wave combines the best of email, instant messaging and real-time collaborative editing into a new form of online communication.
The email paradigm of &#8217;send and receive&#8217; is replaced with a model of hosted conversations, in which &#8220;people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.&#8221;
Wave is refreshingly ambitious. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/06/04/wave-goodbye-to-spam/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Social Technology and Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I spent an enjoyable couple of hours at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), learning about Multi Platform Content, and talking about Mobile Social Technology &#038; Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG).
We examined some emerging mobile social technologies, and how they can enable new forms of story-telling. And we shared my personal journey into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hitching.net/2009/04/22/mobile-social-technology-and-alternate-reality-gaming-arg/</link>
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