links for 2007-11-02

• The world on your desktop | Economist.com
  Lightweight overview of some of the coolness of the emerging geoweb.
  (tags: mapping geotagging geoweb)
• Get Lat Lon – find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
  Easy as pie.
  (tags: geotagging mapping)
• blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
  Ning’s Marc Andreessen ‘splains Google’s new monster API.
  (tags: opensocial opensocialweb API socialnetworkportability portablesocialnetworks)
• Explaining OpenSocial to your Executives
  Owyang primer’s bottom line: “…we’re at the unproven starting point, [but] the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider into their 2008 web strategy planning.”
  (tags: strategery opensocial API opensocialweb portablesocialnetworks socialnetworkportability)

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