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I wanted to make sure that everyone knows about this weekend’s mapping party activities brought to you by the OpenStreetMap project. Here’s the cliff notes version: Mapping party at Multnomah Central Library from 11am - 4pm on Saturday. Forest park trail mapping from 9am - 2pm on Sunday. Y...

I’m a huge fan of xkcd, and today’s comic does a great job of illustrating why we designed Shizzow to require that you shout your location rather than automating the process. Brady also has an interesting take on this issue over on the O’Reilly Radar blog. “I a...

We’ve added Google Gears support to both www.shizzow.com and m.shizzow.com to help auto-detect your location! How does it work? If you have Gears installed, you will be prompted to allow Shizzow to access information about your device. ...

For the week ending April 19th, here are the top Shizzow community members across a variety of categories. For comparison, you can take a look at previous community in review posts...

We have Twitter integration to post your Shizzow shouts to Twitter, but the big change now is that you can easily import the people you are following on Twitter into Shizzow. Here are a few more details about how it works...

For the week ending April 12th, here are the top Shizzow community members across a variety of categories. We’ve even added a couple of new categories to recognize people who are doing nice things (like remembering to tag places). ...

We made a few enhancements and fixes that we think you will like. As always, this is how we prove that we really do read all of the stuff you send us through Get Satisfaction...

For the week ending April 5th, here are the top shouters and the most frequently visited places. For comparison, you can take a look at last week’s Community in Review. Top Shouters maestrojed: Jed Herzog - Livin in Portland OR. ...

Reid Beels had the first Shizzow application prior to the release of our API using some CSS / Javascript wizardry to create a Fluid application, but it was never packaged up and released for the rest of us to use … until now. ...

I thought it would be fun to do a weekly feature of the Shizzow community in review. For the week ending on March 29th, here are the top shouters and the most popular locations...

Shizzow was lucky enough to sneak into the private beta for Twitter oAuth, and we’ve held back on releasing Twitter oAuth integration for all Shizzow users until Twitter gave the green light. Yesterday, Twitter announced that it has changed its oAuth status from closed beta to public beta. ...

The Shizzow team is will be in Austin for SxSW! If you happen to be at SxSW, make sure you say hi to Dawn, Mark and myself (Ryan). We’d love to hear about how you use Shizzow and to tell you a little more about ourselves. ...

We were honored to sit on the Strange Love Live couch again to talk about Shizzow and SXSW on Friday. Many of you watched it live and left snarky comments in the chat room. Don’t worry, we still love you. ...