Tag Archives: AJAX

Location-Based Social Media

Posted 03 April 2008 | By | Categories: Social Media | 74 Comments

When Google Maps was introduced in 2005, it was a watershed moment in the distributed web. While Microsoft had developed TerraServer (the first free API mapping service) in 1996, there was something about the elegance and power of the AJAX implementation of Google Maps that unleashed the creativity of multitudes of developers to spawn a [...]