Wikipedia Watching

Posted in New Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 by Wes Alwan on November 2nd, 2007

Wikipedia’s recent edits page is long overdue for this mashup, which allows you to watch in real time as recent anonymous editors are located on a world map. Enjoy watching someone in the United Kingdom edit American Old West while a North Carolinian tinkers with Social Darwinism.

Reminiscent of Twittervision’s enhancement of Twitter, WikipediaVision can be surprisingly addictive. And it’s another great example of simple online applications that combine publicly available information to great effect (in this case, using the Google Maps API, hostip.info, and GoNew’s IP to country service).

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  1. Wes Alwan said,

    on November 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    see also: http://flickrvision.com/

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