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Pockets Sends Private Voicemails Via Twitter

1:10AM Kevin Purdy | It must be said that Twitter/voicemail mashup Pockets has great potential for spammy misuse. Used properly, though, it’s a pretty novel way to send a voicemail message to someone you know through Twitter but don’t have a phone number for. More »
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Goofram Neatly Combines Google And Wolfram Results

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | As soon as Wolfram Alpha launched as a computational knowledge engine, avid searchers hacked up tools to combine its results with standard Google searches. The Goofram site is a clean-looking site that does all that mashing for you. More »
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Map Motive Mashes All Your Facebook Friends On A Google Map

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | From the thin files of the Decently Useful Facebook Apps Dept.: MapMotive puts your Facebook friends on a Google Map, making it easy to visit acquaintances while travelling, or just marvel at your social spread. More »

Create And Share Panoramic Images At viewAt

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re interested in panoramic photography, viewAt combines a panoramic maker with a Google Maps mashup so you can not only create interactive panoramas but geotag them and share them with the world. More »
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Google Maps Mashup Tracks Swine Flu

2:30AM Adam Pash | News and concern over swine flu has spread faster than the actual illness, but if you want to keep a close eye on reports—confirmed and otherwise—this Google Maps mashup does the job nicely. More »
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Postcode Dot-to-dot Joins Australia’s Postcodes On A Map

1:00PM Angus Kidman | Alright, it’s probably not going to do much for your productivity, but the notion of using Australian postcodes as instructions for a dot-to-dot image is still pretty cool. More »
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Flickr2Mesh Downloads Flickr Shots Using Live Mesh

4:30PM Angus Kidman | If you’ve been playing around with Microsoft’s Live Mesh syncing technology and tried it on your Windows Mobile device, then Flickr2Mesh, a simple application to download photos from your Flickr account onto your hard drive or mobile phone, might be of interest. As Aussie Live Mesh guru Angus Logan points out on his blog, the code could also be used as the basis for an application giving you access to your photos on multiple devices. If you want to mass-download Flickr shots but aren’t ready for Live Mesh yet, check out previously mentioned Flump. Flickr2Mesh[via Angus Logan's Blog] More »
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ABC’s Sydney Sidetracks Puts History On A Map

4:30PM Angus Kidman | The new Sydney Sidetracks project from the ABC puts an intriguing twist on the Google Maps mash-up genre, linking historic video, audio and pictures to their locations online. Content on offer includes early images from Port Jackson in 1821, as well as more recent events such as the Hilton Hotel bombing. As well as being accessible on the site, you can download a version for use on your mobile phone, ideal for a walking tour of the inner-Sydney streets. With luck, we’ll see similar efforts for other cities in the future (the site structure suggests other locations could easily be added). Sydney Sidetracks More »
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Tiny Geo-coder Webapp Converts Addresses To Latitude And Longitude

7:30AM Lifehacker US Edition | Looking for the latitude and longitude of a particular address, to geotag a Flickr photo for instance? Tiny Geo-coder will give you results in an instant, and based on my tests is accurate even when the address isn’t perfect (for instance, leaving “street” out of a street number or using a city’s popular acronym). If you’re looking to automate multiple calls through a script or create map mashups, Tiny Geo-coder has an even lighter-weight API. Simply append a search term to the API url like the example for Perris, CA on the site’s homepage, and all the server will return is that geocode and nothing else. No API key or complicated parsing required. Nifty! Tiny Geo-coder [via eHub] More »
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Buildasearch Combines Multiple Site Seaches into One Box

1:05AM Kevin Purdy | Free site-search service Buildasearch does exactly what it purports to—combine a bunch of site:whatever.com commands into a single search box. Beyond just bookmarking a long Google URL, however, Buildasearch offers customised logos, colours, and layouts, and seems to return results pretty quickly. The interface (and translation) can be a bit rough, but the end result works as promised. You can keep your custom search on Buildasearch’s servers, or use their API to install your search on any server that supports PHP. It’s a handy tool for those who find themselves digging through the same collection of sites repeatedly. Buildasearch [via MakeUseOf.com] More »