Kevin: This looks very handy for data journalism. Paste in CSV or tab-delimited data into a form, and it will output the data in common web data formats such as JSON, XML, Actionscript or Ruby.

Kevin: Ellie Behling at eMedia Vitals writes: "Despite slow adoption rates, media brands should pay attention to location-based services. Localized information is probably the next frontier for information; it's just catching on slowly. As the technology evolves and smartphones become more popular, adoption will increase."

The entrance of Facebook, with its 500 million users, could certainly quicken the pace of adoption.