Send a Valentine’s Day GeoGreeting

Brian @ our new Hackszine site writes -
For anyone looking for a last-minute Valentine to send instantly, Google Maps Mania advises heading over to GeoGreeting.com:
a virtual greeting site that lets you send a message to others on the web using buildings that are in the shape of letters and punctuation. In this recent tv news piece where GeoGreeting’s creator Scott Kleinfeldt was profiled he put out a call to help find a heart shaped building in time for the anticipated traffic rush to his site for Valentine’s Day.
Kleinfeldt eventually found his heart shape in Turkljaca, Croatia Island:

The heart shape is as quick and easy to insert as any letter, so get to GeoGreeting.com to send your personalized message before everyone else does.
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Portland Was

Celluloid Signal Combo put together a cool site that uses geolocation to show local video locations and the idea is that you’ll watch the videos on the spots on the map. Cool!

We created each mobile video to be watched at a specific location in Portland that relates to it. For example, the Pioneer Courthouse Square is matched to the mobile video of George Olsen. If you go there to watch George Olsen and His Orchestra, you will be at the site of the former Hotel Portland where the band was playing when they were discovered and taken to stardom in in New York. - Link

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