Comments on: giklzr ep7 – Twitter, Google and Online maps of Maldives.

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:45:28 +0000

good episode …
the background noise at 19:20 is kinda kewl too …
hehe …

By: shaffan

shaffan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:17:06 +0000

@shafiu you need to get rid of ur russian accent google app doesnt understand that

google app worked perfectly for me, ive tried with long words, and searching for shops near my area, it was ok, but when i searched for dhivehi words, got funny results

By: shaff

shaff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:03:47 +0000

facebook has more than 10,000 maldivian users.
i think people actually don’t realize how useful twitter is.

By: Nasru

Nasru — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:05:17 +0000

Thanks for including Male’ Map website in your review (www.male-map.com …. yeah too bad its pronounced as male map …. can’t get domains with apostrophe so this is the best choice we had hehe).

Just to add to the info you’ve given:

* When you first view the website, the map shown (at 200m zoom) is the map of male’ provided by Google Maps. As you can see its not very accurate. We left this as it is to make loading time faster when you first visit the website.

* We have added our own custom map for higher zoom levels. When you search and click on an address, the location is shown at a higher zoom level which contains more detail such as street names and block numbers (highest zoom level).

* We’ve also recently added a new feature – which lets you add photos to locations of Male’.

Its cool to know that there is a Maldivian Podcast on technology. Keep up the good work

cheers

By: nass

nass — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:38:05 +0000

Yeah, I also use Twitter more than FB…
I think there are more than 100 twitter users from Maldives…

By: Suja

Suja — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:06:37 +0000

I think the site you talked about pics of Maale is;

http://dailyphotosofmale.aminus3.com/

One of the reasons why Facebook is interested in Twitter in the fast-growth in twitter users, not to mention the fact twitter is kind of a competitor to Facebook as shafiu mentioned.

Anyway, its a fun episode.