Trendsmap is a new Twitter trend tracking service that sticks tweets onto an interactive map. How does it stack up against other trend tracking services though? Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and ...

A photo of crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square where the rallies and protests from the 2011 Egyptian Revolution took place. Sociologist Marc Smith suggested in a Twitter Mapping study that the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Among Us has revealed our first look at the game’s new map, which, according to developer Inner ...

If it's possible for a concept to have fifteen minutes of fame, "metadata" had its own a few weeks ago, when it was revealed that Verizon was passing the stuff off en masse to the National Security ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. With ...

Political polarization is tricky to measure, but those looking for tangible evidence of it in American politics can find it on Twitter, the proving grounds for every aspiring pundit. A group of ...

By Sharon Machlis Nice map mashup from GIS vendor ESRI to track Hurricane Irene. In addition to the hurricane information itself, which you can get from numerous news and weather sites, ESRI layers in ...

Ukrainians have turned to offline mapping and encrypted communication apps in the wake of the Russian invasion of their country, which is displacing millions who have left their homes to either fight ...