Archive for the ‘Mapping Access’ Category

Networked/Local Social Media

I recently discovered these three geographically-focused UK websites (above) through my thesis adviser’s del.icio.us feed. They are UpMyStreet, AreYouLocal, and MyNeighborhoods. They were interesting to me because of their location-based orientation within a global communications medium (the web), combined with their use of social software.
I was trying to imagine a version of this site where [...]