This week was spent getting everything prepared for my where2.0 talk next week. One of the things I want to do in my talk is show some interesting visualisation based on all the location data I’ve stored in the past three years. I started this on Tuesday by creating a page on MapMe.At that anyone can use to graph the amount of time they’ve spent in places over the course of a year. The graphs give really interesting results and can give some genuine insights. For instance they show that in 2009 I tended to go to the same places more regularly whereas in 2008 I went to a greater variety of places. I’ve also seen that I went to London more often than I thought last year.

Once I had my graphs done it was time to work on my slides. Though I was originally a little nervous about whether I’d have enough material and spent most of Wednesday procrastinating I have ended up with nearly 40 slides which take me about 20 minutes to deliver. This is 5 minutes more than I have but I’m sure I can get it down, I’m just happy I have enough material!

The final thing I spent most of yesterday on was adding in support for foursquare synchronisation. MapMe.At is all about offering as many ways as possible to store your location and currently foursquare is one of the most popular location tracking services around. They have an API so it was obvious to me that I should support it. That’s gone well and I’ve got full support for pulling your check-ins and “shouts” from foursquare into MapMe.At. I hope to get support for pushing your location into Foursquare done before my talk but I can definitely add another logo to my slides now! That support should be rolling out onto the site pretty soon.

This week is the big week then. I give my talk at Where 2.0 actually quite late in the conference so I get to stress about it all the way through. Hopefully it should go ok but wish me luck!