Podcast: Peeling Back the Layers of the Firefox Geode Location Add-on
By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
October 14, 2008
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- Introducing Geode (Mozilla Labs Blog)
- Mozilla
- HitsLink Browser Marketshare Data
- W3C Geolacation Spec - Editor's Draft
- W3C Geolocation Working Group
- Mozilla Adapts Skyhook's Loki Location-Finding System for Firefox (Xconomy)
- Google's Gears Not Just for Offline Accessibility (TechCrunch)
- Two New Ways to Location Enable Your Web Apps (Google Code Updates Blog)
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