There is an open web standard associated with geolocation, called the W3C Geolocation API. Web developers can use this API to add geolocation capabilities to their applications.

The Mozilla Hacks blog has posted a nice screencast overview of the HTML5 Geolocation API. The video is designed to help anyone competing in Mozilla’s September developer derby (which involves ...

Many of those apps use Twitter’s geolocation API to pass the data back to Twitter, so it makes sense that this would be a good time to turn the functionality on for the website.

Twitter said it is still working on its geolocation API for allowing developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Twitter platform lead Ryan Sarver shed more light on how geolocation in ...

Apps Twitter’s Geolocation API is Live. You can find tweets and twitters by location. November 20, 2009 - 12:01 am Twitter has just announced the public availability of their Geotagging API.

I noticed something interesting tonight. In the new build of Tweetie 2 (not out yet), a bunch of little red location markers started appearing next to tweets in my stream. Knowing that this new ...