Automatic Twitter Location Update Service

Hi! My name is David Weekly. I started PBwiki, but L0K8 ("locate", get it?) is a fun side project I coded up on Sunday, May 11, 2008. It is a small Windows program that updates Twitter whenever you change location. Later on I may add a Facebook app or webhooks or whatever folks would find useful for rebroadcasting their location information. There are no ads or spyware.

Download Windows Client [1.1 MB]

Timeline

• 5/11/08 @ 4pm Got idea for service, started coding prototype
• 5/11/08 @ 7pm Have proof-of-concept app & server working, register l0c8 & l0k8.com.
• 5/12/08 @ 1:45am Crude alpha version released to world.
• 5/12/08 @ 2:00am Added twitter profile.
• 5/12/08 @ 2:15am Version 0.02 of the Windows client is released.
• 5/12/08 @ 3:15am Updated server software to actually post updates to Twitter on location change.
• 5/12/08 @ 3:30am Made website look very marginally less ghetto. Passing out.
• 5/12/08 @ 11:45am Fixed a dumb bug that kept you from associating a second install with your account.

Known Issues

• You can't change your username or password and there's no password reset functionality.
• You can't syndicate your location information other places than Twitter (e.g. using GeoRSS)
• The Windows client is easily dissuaded from continuing to run.
• The geocoding is not wildly accurate, especially outside the US.
• The client doesn't autoupdate.
• There is no Mac/Linux client.
• You can't log in with OpenID.
• There's no API.

Feedback?

I'd love to know what you think of the service and what you'd like to see it become. Email feedback@l0k8.com to send me your two cents.