http://simonwillison.net/2010-11-09T09:36:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-11-09T09:36:00+00:002010-11-09T09:36:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Nov/9/geoip/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://bohlander.posterous.com/building-a-geoip-server-with-zeromq">Building a GeoIP server with ZeroMQ</a></strong></p> ZeroMQ makes it trivially easy to write a network service in raw C that makes functionality from a C library (in this case the MaxMind GeoIP library) available to clients written in many different client languages. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/c">c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geoip">geoip</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/zeromq">zeromq</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2008-10-26T08:28:34+00:002008-10-26T08:28:34+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/26/youtube/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/">YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos</a></strong></p> Add #t=1m45s to the end of a YouTube URL to jump to that spot. I’d be a lot more impressed by this if visiting a YouTube link in the UK didn’t use IP geo targetting to redirect me to uk.youtube.com, losing the fragment identifier and hence the #t specifier in the process. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/broken">broken</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fragments">fragments</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geoip">geoip</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/youtube">youtube</a></p>

2007-05-30T07:40:46+00:002007-05-30T07:40:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/30/howto/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://favdiggs.blogspot.com/2007/05/howto-google-maps-street-view-outside.html">Howto: Google Maps Street View outside US</a></strong></p> Add “&amp;gl=us” at the end of the URL to avoid the evil geo IP restriction and play with Google’s latest toy. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geoip">geoip</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-maps">google-maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/streetview">streetview</a></p>

2002-09-06T00:44:11+00:002002-09-06T00:44:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2002/Sep/6/geoIP/#atom-tag

<p>Adrian Holovaty in a <a href="http://www.aquarionics.com/misc/archives/blogite/0048.html">blogite thread</a> about features that can be added to blogs:</p> <blockquote cite="http://www.aquarionics.com/misc/archives/blogite/0048.html"><p>Change the time zone. I've noticed a lot of blogs don't specify which time zone they're in, which pretty much makes the timestamp meaningless. I put "EST" on mine, and my about page explains my time zone further, but I think it would be convenient for the users to convert the times to their own zones. I did this in JavaScript on one of my old sites, but I'd rather do it on the server side for accessibility's sake.</p></blockquote> <p>This got me thinking about how best to "guess" a user's timezone. A search on Google for "country ip address" turned up <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/">GeoIP</a>, an impressive looking open-source based database for looking up countries by IP address. The database updated yearly is free, while monthly updates can be had for a very reasonable $150 annual subscription.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/adrian-holovaty">adrian-holovaty</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geoip">geoip</a></p>