1. 4mapper Puts Foursquare On The Map 9 hours ago   permalink

4mapper Puts Foursquare On The Map
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

As one of the hot social-location properties, Foursquare has a wealth of information about where you go. Unfortunately, it doesn't really offer many good ways to visualize it. In fact, Foursquare only focuses on providing a text stream of your check-ins. A new app takes that data and puts it on a map. 4mapper , built by John Wiseman , is a very ...

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Foursquare-python /   —  >>> import foursquare >>> fs = foursquare.Foursquare() >>> fs.cities() {'cities': [{'geolat': 52.378900000000002, 'name': 'Amsterdam', ...}]}

2. Thanksgiving: a displaced Brit writes… 10 hours ago   permalink

Thanksgiving: a displaced Brit writes…
Paul Carr / TechCrunch

When I first heard about this "Thanksgiving" thing, I thought it sounded like a great idea. We Brits spend a ridiculous amount of time each day giving thanks to strangers - we say thanks to people who hold doors for us, thanks to people who stop their cars to let us cross the road, thanks to waitresses when they give us our bill; even thanks ...

3. Vidic stresses loyalty to Man Utd 17 hours ago   permalink

Vidic stresses loyalty to Man Utd
BBC Sport

Centre-back Nemanja Vidic says he wants to be the rock that Manchester United build their next team upon.

4. WordPress MU Domain Mapping 0.5 19 hours ago   permalink

Ocaoimh.ie

WordPress MU Domain Mapping is a plugin that allows the users of a WordPress MU site to use custom domains on their blogs. It’s been a while since the last release but with the help of Ron Rennick, and many others (kgraeme – you kick ass at finding bugs!) I think the wait has been worth it. Changes since the last release:

5. TweetBookz: Would you turn 200 tweets into a book? 21 hours ago   permalink

TweetBookz: Would you turn 200 tweets into a book?
Andy Merrett / The Blog Herald

I’ve written just over 4,000 tweets since I signed up for Twitter several years ago, but I think I’d be hard-pressed to choose 200 of a high enough quality to turn into a book. However, new startup TweetBookz has decided there must be enough Twitter fanatics who would like to do just that. Cofounders Jacob Schwirtz and [...]

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TweetBookz: Would you turn 200 tweets into a book? Tweets so good they should be printed   —  TweetBookz, a US-based company that launched on November 23, came up with the idea that lets microbloggers turn 200 of their best tweets into a physical book.