The 2 main parts of this software have changed over the years, however this post will describe each change and will include what I currently use to get my location on the site.

The main part is the use of the Mologogo software. Which I used because I had a old boost mobile cell phone and this was the easiest and fastest way to get my location up on the web. It was also the cheapest at $1 dollar a day. After the iPhone came out I developed my own application to get my location and update the mologogo software that way. This was awesome because I could get rid of the boost mobile phone and I only had to carry a single phone then. However after almost every update to the iPhone software, I had to wait for a new jailbreak and then I had to change my code to work. This became a huge hassle and I had to deal with it after every update.

When the iPhone 2.0 software came out I assumed I wouldn’t have to do that anymore. Except for the fact that in order to actually use any application that you wrote, you needed to pay the developer fee. So instead I decided to get my location another way. On many of the twitter iPhone apps it would allow you to update your location and this would then update the GPS coordinates shown on your twitter.com page. This was an easy way to get the location of myself without the need of writing a new custom app. So I wrote some code that would look on my twitter page and find the location of me and check to see if it had updated since the last time it checked. This solution was great because it would only update as much as I wanted, and wouldn’t drain my battery since my phone would do none of the work. However, a few months after this went live twitter decided to change their design and at first the location info was no longer shown. So I had to come up with a new idea.
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