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Ryan Sarver My name is Ryan Sarver and I currently reside in Boston, MA San Francisco, CA with my girlfriend fiance (@devon) and work for Skyhook Wireless Twitter as the Product Manager for the Platform / API team. I have been lucky enough to speak at a number of conferences on topics around mobile, geolocation and the geoweb. I also co-chair a geohack event called WhereCamp.

This blog doesn’t get updated often unless the content is more than 140 characters. Otherwise you can find me on Twitter as @rsarver. You can also find me on LinkedIn and on The Googles.

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4 Comments so far

  1. Ben on June 20th, 2009

    Heya,

    I’ve been woring on twitterplaces.com, tracking places via a dollartag syntax that create bookmarks-per-user. Is there anywhere i can hear more about what twitter is up to with location-based-tweets while it’s still in development?

    Ben

  2. @cranstone on August 18th, 2009

    Hi Ryan,

    Quick question - does the W3C GeoLocationAPI current support real time access to a devices Bluetooth MAC Address or Wi-Fi address or is it just GPS?

  3. rsarver on August 18th, 2009

    Ben,

    The best place to find updates for things like that is the Twitter Development Talk mailing list. We recently announced a Developer Preview of the Retweet API so that developer would have advance access before we launch a new feature. You can find the list here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-developmen...

  4. rsarver on August 18th, 2009

    The W3C Gelocation API doesn't specify or get involved in the underlying technology to locate the user. Instead it leaves that up to the device itself and then exposes a single API for retrieving that information off of the device, regardless of how it was determined. In the end the developer and the user know nothing about how it was determined, just how accurate the result is.

    Let me know if that makes sense.

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