The past week I have been toying with a few APIs, namely those offered by Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Facebook. The resulting product is a rather sluggish map overlaid with geotagged contents from BrightKite, Flickr, Panoramio, Picasa, Upcoming, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, and YouTube. It also features "Local News" and "Local Tweets" which shows news from Google News and recent tweets from Twitter based on the map you are viewing (I won't bother you with the boring details). The "Local Friends" is an optional feature that requires the user to connect the site with Facebook Connect, it basically shows you how many Facebook friends you have in each U.S. states and who they are when the map is over that state.

The main purpose of this little application is to explore geotagged contents from various sites, whether on street level or country level.

It's somewhat unstable due to the nature of the application relying on data from third party APIs but it should be fine most of the time. I might work on it a bit more to sort things out, however in the mean time I will be moving onto my next little project, something related to this but hopefully more useful.

It was pretty fun* while working on this little project and I can also add it to my portfolio page - which I have yet to create - to demonstrate my skills with JavaScript/jQuery and working with third party APIs.

So, until the next post, ciao!

* Switching from "WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING ARRRGGGGH!" to "Ahh, I am so awesome for figuring this out." in a microsecond bring me so much joy.