{"id":21,"date":"2006-11-03T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/2006\/11\/03\/maps-are-coming-to-msg\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T13:25:09","slug":"maps-are-coming-to-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/2006\/11\/03\/maps-are-coming-to-msg\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps are coming to MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSG began as an offshoot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddyspace.org\">BuddySpace<\/a>, but has now taken on a significant life of its own.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We're experimenting with Google Maps integration,\u00c2\u00a0 which will &#8216;bring us back to our roots&#8217; in geolocation + presence + messaging, but with a distinct Web2.0 flavour.\u00c2\u00a0 Among other things, this means extensibility and the ability to integrate with 3rd party tools much more easily.<\/p>\n<p>To get a glimpse of our current thinking about what is important in the world of geolocation + presence + messaging, have a look at our recent <a href=\"http:\/\/kmi.open.ac.uk\/people\/marc\/2006\/11\/01\/improving-radius-im-for-geolocationchat\/\">personal blog posting about a nice product from RadiusIM, and how it could be improved<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSG began as an offshoot of BuddySpace, but has now taken on a significant life of its own.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We're experimenting with Google Maps integration,\u00c2\u00a0 which will &#8216;bring us back to our roots&#8217; in geolocation + presence + messaging, but with a distinct Web2.0 flavour.\u00c2\u00a0 Among other things, this means extensibility and the ability to integrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk\/msg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}