As I was re-aligning my website, I got an interesting idea to experiment with. I’m using Google Latitude to track my location for about a year now, and until now I didn’t really put this data to work anywhere. I think I came up with a pretty fun idea: I geolocate the visitor using their IP and then calculate their distance to me and display it. It looks pretty neat: So if you’re still interested,
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