links for 2011-02-18

Silicon Valley startup, Tackable, allows any organization to post hyper-local news assignments, which users can then search, by location, as eyewitness reports roll in.

Though still in beta, Tackable imagines a social network where users can follow a tailored set of unfolding events in a Facebook-like newsfeed. Co-founder, Luke Stangel, tells Fast Company that location “is the most logical way to organize live information.”

My suspicion is that whoever prepared the research, on-screen graphics and script for that segment of the show wasn’t sufficiently familiar with Twitter to recognise that that there’s a difference between real name and username, and that they had accidentally put offensive words into the mouths of unsuspecting Twitter users.

BIOLAP has developed an application, driven by arcplan technology, that we will provide to Councils free of charge to allow members of the public to analyse expenditure, slice and dice information and drill through to the underlying transactions.