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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   Our understanding is mongodb should scale to tens of millions of rows better than a SQL database (which would be a nice problem to have) Once we made the decision to use mongodb, it made sense to use the built in near functionality, rather
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   Actually it's a prompt to install Google Chrome Frame ( http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ ) in Internet Explorer. I agree that the experience for IE users could be better. (We support Firefox, Safari and Chrome on the desktop righ
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   Thank us both. If the comment originated at Foursquare, of course that is down to them, but there is much less friction to finding the data on geosay (IMO)
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   According to http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding production ready sharding should be available this month.
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   I think that is true to a large extent. I think it also shows that many people don't turn on location in twitter (as it is off by default this is no surprise) We do think there is room for a location based service for sharing information th
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   Oh btw, please try in in your phone (if you are an iphone or android user) as well as your desktop browser.
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   We use mongodb as the backend datastore. It has built in location searching which so far has worked really well.
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   There are 2 lookups. If you say "yes" to share my location in firefox then it uses the browser's navigator.geolocation functionality. If you say no, it uses MaxMind's geoIP service (see http://www.maxmind.com/ )
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   by dansingerman 16y ago

   There is also a link in the bottom left to "search here" (admittedly, maybe not the best UI)
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    by dansingerman 16y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. 1) Agreed - we should make it do that (there are reasons that it is a little tricky - but not insurmountable) 2) Agreed 3) Agreed 4) The mobile version has that. As desktop locations seem a lot less accurate, I w
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    by dansingerman 16y ago

    It should just be a location. What browser are you using? What was your search term(s)?
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    by dansingerman 16y ago

    And have your twitter account settings set to "Add location to my tweets". See http://twitter.com/settings/account