About
Husband, Father, coffee addict, Scifi and Electronica fan, UNIX and Mac user and in my day job I'm Director of the Places Registry for Nokia.-
Recent Postage
Recent Commentage
- Steve Krause on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Love the Plugin Gary! Using it at my site –...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: A quick question on plugins for author images vs. avatars. I think...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, Looks like you’re using the TwentyEleven theme; this...
- Rory on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: hi Gary, one further question … how can i get rid of the...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, The contact details need to be added to your user profile;...
Recent Trackbackage
- John’s Weblog on The Non Golden Rules of Geo: Gary Gale has reproduced the original blog entry here. Categories: Semantic...
- edparsons.com on A smartphone without location is just not smart !: Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Adding Windows Phone 7 Support To WordPress...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, buybestultd,...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Putting The Tube On The Grid; A Geeked Out...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, Karen Leech. Karen...
- de.straba.us on WhereCamp EU 2011 – The Geo Unconference For Europe: Gale, con il post “Ich Bin Geograph” – WhereCamp EU Is Coming To...
Travels
Disclaimer
This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
agi bacon berlin cartography conference customerservice data deliciousness facebook fail flickr foursquare geo geotagged google gps heathrow home identity iphone latitude lhr location london mac map maps mobile nokia online openstreetmap place posterous privacy sfo snowleopard social teddington tube twitter uk underground window wordpress yahooTweetage
- I'm not being a wimp but it's -7 and feels like -11. OK, I am being a wimp but even Reykjavik didn't feel this cold at this time of year. about 18 hours ago from web
- It. Is. Cold. (@ Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) w/ @bunterberg) http://t.co/R8WCWtrY 08:50:53 AM February 07, 2012 from foursquare
- WP Biographia (http://t.co/kCYCjgx7) is getting i18n; Spanish and Turkish are already in the works. Get in touch if you'd like to help. 03:09:42 AM February 07, 2012 from web
- @SalPavone Check out FAQ # 5 on http://t.co/BojfSpBe; the bio information goes in your user profile settings (Dashboard/Users/Your Profile) 03:04:57 AM February 07, 2012 from web in reply to SalPavone
- Heading to Berlin this morning and then to Düsseldorf; packing my thermals after looking at the weather forecast. Brrrr. 03:01:27 AM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck
Bookmarkage
Tag Archives: latitude
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Aug 10
Aug 10
Facebook Places; Haven’t We Been Here Before?
A week and a half ago Facebook finally launched their Places feature to a predictable media furore over location privacy, regardless of whether it’s justified or not and, to location industry watchers at least, a strong sense of deja vu. … Continue reading
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Jul 10
Jul 10
More Location Tracking; This Time From Foursquare
Back in March of this year I wrote about deliberately tracking my journey by using Google’s Latitude and unexpectedly tracking the same journey by looking at the history of my Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins. By using the history function from … Continue reading
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May 10
May 10
Latitude Inconsistitude
In the midst of yesterday’s I/O event, Google announced the launch of the long rumoured API for their Latitude location sharing platform; there’s ample coverage and commentary on ReadWriteWeb and on TechCrunch and that’s just fine because that’s not what … Continue reading
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Near Instantaneous Trans Atlantic Travel
I’ve been tracking my journeys again and in doing so appear to have discovered the secret of near instantaneous trans Atlantic travel. Apart from the sporadic bad GPS locks, watch as I travel from home to the Yahoo! campus in … Continue reading
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Deliberately (and Unexpectedly) Tracking My Journey
I’ve been tracking my journey and in doing so inadvertently uncovered a sea change in the way in which we view the whole thorny issue of location tracking. Yesterday, Ed Parsons and I drove from London to Nottingham and back … Continue reading
