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Web mapping services provider Mapufacture looks like it has a promising future as location based content grows in popularity. Mapufacture"s GeoRSS standard is endorsed by Outside.In, which aggregates and syndicates geotagged content. It will become more important for bloggers to geotag their content to maximise its distribution and readership, and GeoRSS is a fantastic addition to location based blogs.

Having tested various WordPress mapping plugins, I think Mapufacture"s WordPress mapping plugin GeoPress is the most sophisticated in terms of functionality and also the most useful and straightforward to implement. GeoPress allows bloggers to geotag posts, publish maps of posts and distribute geotagged content via GeoRSS enabled RSS and Atom feeds....Read Full article»

It"s frustrating working in social media and social networking in Australia, which is so far behind the latest  developments in the US. This is partially due to population; Australian cities are simply not big enough to enable a minority of social media early adopters to form the critical mass required to support thriving online communities.

One of the most interesting social news sites in the US is Outside.In, which aggregates old media (newspaper articles) and new media (blog posts) into a stream of location specific hyperlocal content. Blog aggregator PlaceBlogger has a focus on location, and Metblogs has a geographical structure although it is yet to do anything meaningfully hyperlocal....Read Full article»