TwitterEarth

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2007

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You can now view Twitters in 3D with twitterearth. Genexis Consulting is using Live Maps to make this possible. Inspired by the awesome Twittervision, this mashup zooms the viewer around a 3D globe in the browser.

It's great timing for this release. Until now only IE browsers on Windows machines could view Live's 3D imagery. As of today, Firefox browsers also get the enhanced data. For those of us on Macs the VE team made this video:

Video: Twitter 3D - Twitter Mashup in 3D

Erik Jorgensen, Live Map General Manager, will be speaking at Where 2.0. Also at Where, John Curlander will be reprising his excellent ETech talk The Making of Virtual Earth.

[via Frank Arrigo & the VE team]

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Foo Fooly [04.04.07 11:49 AM]

This seems to fall into one of those categories of "they did it because they could" and clearly, not because they should. How does this visualization help users accomplish anything better than they already could? I realize that "better" is subjective, but this is yet another case of useless mashups wasting bandwidth.

Jason [04.04.07 12:21 PM]

There is a very useful web 2.0 local search engine called Geothingy where users can add and remove urls from the list used by the crawler to generate the local index. A new site with huge potential.