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Today’s nugget is Frappr, a mash-up of Google Maps and Flickr-like photo sharing. It looks like a neat way for groups to share a bit about where they’re from. Check it out — I’ve created a group for BigBlueBall.

Technology really is pretty cool.

I’ve extolled the virtues of Flickr and Google Earth before, but now a guy by the name of Rob Roy has linked the two together with FlickrFly. FlickrFly adds a nifty little “Fly to this location” link to your properly geotagged photo. Clicking the link (assuming you’ve installed Google Earth), will take you around the globe and zoom you in on that spot on the big blue ball we live on.

If you’d like to check it out, grab a free copy of Google Earth and click one of the “Fly to…” links to see Sacre Coeur, Place Vendome, Thousand Island Lake in the Minarets (really cool with terrain turned on), or the Golden Gate bridge.

Adding Geotags
If you use Flickr (and why shouldn’t you… it’s free!), it’s now even easier to add geotags to your photos. There’s a new Greasemonkey script for Firefox called GMiF that puts the power of Google Maps right into Flickr. Makes it really, really easy to point-and-click to tag your photos with the correct latitude and longitude information.

For more on geotagging, check out the Geotagging Flickr group.

Not to be outdone by the excellent third-party Google Map hacks, Google has come out with a hack of their own. Google Ride Finder is an awesome application that uses GPS signals from taxis and plots them on the map. You can see exactly how many taxis are available in your area, and exactly where they are at this moment.

Ride Finder is currently in beta testing, and only available in 12 cities in the U.S., but it is a terrific example of what’s to come.

Next, we’ll have parents tracking their teenage kids…

Paul Rademacher has done a good thing. He’s combined Craig’s List with Google Maps to create an outrageously cool tool that lets you search for houses (or rooms, etc.) on a map. Brilliant!