Flickrvision and Twittervision
A cool mashup of Web 2.0 apps. You can see in real-time as people post photos on flickr or status updates on twitter with geospacial context. There are two views, classic and 3D view. Classic uses Google maps and looks more or less like this:
The map is scrolled constantly as new images are given focus. The 3D view looks more or less like this, and the framerate is pretty good here (uses Flash, perhaps Papervision 3D?):
One problem with the app which makes it nearly useless after your initial visit is it’s inability to allow you to specify a tag or other kind of filter.
Plus, when you leave it running, it seems to cycle through the same 15–20 images and it’s not something you can leave running for an extended period hoping to see more and more content. Maybe it does cycle through more content, but I lost my patience after 5 minutes ;-)