Update: More information has been released here.
Tomorrow Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to leverage your physical location to enhance your overall browsing experience. More details will be provided in an official post tomorrow, but this is what we know already:
Geode is a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content.
For example with Geode, a user who is looking for restaurants while they are out of town will be able load up their favorite review site and find suggestions a couple blocks away and plot directions there.
It’s unclear how Firefox actually intends to determine a user’s location, especially since Mozilla doesn’t have a mobile browser that could provide GPS data. How web apps are supposed to leverage the plugin is also yet to be seen.
Geode joins the recently announced Labs projects Ubiquity and Snowl. We’ll post more details as soon as we get them.
I’m waiting for the official release
not useful, too stupid plugin
Maybe Loki? Or Skyhook
I don’t get why Google and Mozilla seem to keep duplicating each other’s efforts (first Google with Chrome, now this) when they seemed to have a pretty good working relationship. Why wouldn’t Mozilla leverage the open, and now not Google-owned, Gears? They’re already solving the mobile question, which is where location is most useful.
http://code.goo...eolocation.html
This could be a great engine for relevant, location-based advertisement. I am still puzzled to how they are going to get the accurate location, more accurate than the basic IP geocoding.
Google actually does it via IP address: http://linkstore.ru/geo/
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Take a look at FireEagle. It’s a way to get location. Not fully functional yet, but they have plans.
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
Geode is available for download here.
https://wiki.mo....org/Labs/Geode
Noticed doesn’t work in Linux. Feels left out.
Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, runs on the Nokia N810, which has integrated GPS. I run Fennec on my Nokia N800 (no GPS) already.
Would be useful if you’re traveling; love to see it on the iphone as well.
Would be wonderful if it replaced google ads! I think they are gona screw google big time
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Re: 华芳
Not useful, too stupid comment.
my mouth is watering I travel alot and cannot wait