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Ghana VAT Project

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I had the honor to work on a very nice project this year for the eGenix GmbH. It is about bringing a better VAT infrastructure to the African country Ghana. We used technologies like Python, Django, Javascript and YUI.

To get an idea of it I recommend to watch this lightning talk Marc-Andre Lemburg gave at the EuroPython 2009.

Update 2009-09-02:

African press is speaking about the start of the pilot phase:

Twittori – Geotags for Twitter status messages

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Twittori.com is our current project that adds geo tagging to Twitter messages. It is very easy to use and intends to bring a more useable geo dimension into the Twitter World.

I started a little service that adds geo location informations to single Twitter status messages.
Unlike other services this is done by a tiny URL that itself contains all geo location informations e.g. http://GE0.at/0MbEX8 which locates the Eiffel Tower in Paris. This is achieved by a modified ‘geohash’ algorithm (more on that at Wikipedia).
The second unique feature is that users can follow places in a similar way than they are used to follow users on Twitter. Therefore the earth is divided in discrete squares of about 0.25 square kilometers. You can keep updated by subscribing to a RSS Feed or visiting the web site.
An iPhone application is also ready but not yet approved by the Apple App Store. In the meanwhile you can watch a little demo on the web site under the ‘iPhone’ menu entry.
I hope this is an interesting project for the readers of Mashable. The URL of the project is http://www.twittori.com

Unlike other services this is done by a tiny URL that itself contains all geo location informations e.g. http://GE0.at/0MbEX8 which locates the Eiffel Tower in Paris. This is achieved by a modified ‘geohash’ algorithm (more on that at Wikipedia).

The second unique feature is that users can follow places in a similar way than they are used to follow users on Twitter. Therefore the earth is divided in discrete squares of about 0.25 square kilometers. You can keep updated by subscribing to a RSS Feed or visiting the web site. Continue reading →