Fwix – What Is Happening NearBy Geo located Sources
http://www.fwix.com/

Fwix helps you find what’s happening nearby. With thousands of geo-located sources, Fwix is the most comprehensive place to find news, events, status-updates, photos, reviews, places, and social media in your city. Fwix also offers a variety of site tools and a robust developer api for local content. Fwix’s technology is designed to help you find the latest and most relevant local content. To accomplish this task, they use a wide array of technologies. Most of their code is in Python, but in certain cases they use C and Java for more processing-intensive tasks. Content classification and geo-tagging are examples of technologies they have built in-house. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.