New social media mapping sites are popping up all over the place these days - whether it's crisis-mapping sites like Sinsai.info or this new 'happiness' map from PhD student Alex Davies. Davies, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, created a statistical model to analyze the sentiment (happy or sad) of Tweets from around … [Read more...]
Map Your Music Memories
The Grammys and Music Is Life, Life is Music have launched a new mobile app that allows you to tag locations on a map with a music marker - could be the club you're going to see a show at later this weekend, the place you heard a song for the first time, or any other music-related comment or memory. From the Grammys blog: "You can share your tag by posting to your … [Read more...]