Oparla.com – Get paid to search

AMBITIOUS Annesley firm Apple Jupp Media is taking on internet giants Google and Yahoo by giving web surfers the chance to win thousands of pounds in cash prizes by using its new search engine.

The Sherwood Business Park company is set to launch web searching website Oparla on Tuesday and computer experts are currently ironing out the final few bugs in the system… (for the rest click here)

 It’s great to see a local firm taking on the big guns of the internet. Ok, they haven’t really invented their own search engine – they are tacking extra features on to search results provided by Yahoo. Even so they will be competing against billion dollar firms like Google – and are striving for growth amidst the awful recession.  For that, they should be wished the best of luck!

Geotagging

 

 

Alfreton Fire

 

We are currently playing around with the idea of incorporating geotagged maps on to our website – and you can use them too.  Simply put, geotags are a small pieces of information added to a photo, which mapping software like Google Maps can understand and locate on a map.  Taking the example of the picture above, the scene of a fire in Alfreton, Derbyshire. The mapping software has understood where the photo was taken, and placed a marker on the map shown on the right.

 

It doesn’t sound that exciting but there are a number of useful things you can do with geotags – even if it’s just something as simple as mapping out your holiday snaps.  Mobile phones are leading the way with geotags, especially those with ’sat nav’ style GPS antennas and cameras installed as standard – like the N95, Iphone and Nokia 5800.  These phones can automatically add geotags to your photos – but don’t worry if you’ve only got a standard digital camera – you can manually add geotag data later on.