- Posterous recently gained themes and Twitter lost the background and avatar settings for lots of accounts, mine included.
- Need to write München, Côte or Café with proper accents while on a Mac? Easy when you know how.
- If you live in London, apparently you’re either very rich or a loser. It also rained a lot and the world ended, at least in Old Street.
- Spotify can scrobble to Last.fm … why did I not know this?
- Want to know how Google Streetview is put together? Google Japan have a explanation.
- I reached an inspiration dead-end while preparing for this week’s AGI conference; turns out I’m not alone.
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Self professed "geek with a life", geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. A contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, Gary speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz. Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.
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