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Facebook Virtual Earth Mashup using PopFly and Geonames
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Not groundbreaking, but the Microsoft Virtual Earth blog links to a tutorial to use MS's PopFly and Geonames to generate a map mashup of Facebook friends. Here's the resulting mashup. From the site: "Microsoft Popfly is a web application that lets you build mashups without any coding. You get a dashboard with differnt blocks already lined up for you. You can choose the blocks and then connect them around. Each block will give options corresponding to the service say for facebook you can choose from the drop down menu all the fuctions like getfriends, getpics etc. Choose one of the functions and pass the data on to the next block to process. We created a small mashup between facebook, virtual earth and geonames." Related, AnyGeo informs us of the Facebook GIS group. This is closely related to this previous story on Geonames and Microsoft Popfly and the mapping add-on for Facebook and MySpace which was sold $3M.
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