Twango Media on Google Earth
Twango is a media sharing and hosting service for your photo, video, audio and more. The service is similar to YouTube but focus on media sharing in general and not only video which make it much more interesting. Best of all, Twango mobile, the mobile edition optimized for modern mobile phones which is very simple, easy to use and neat, where users can simply add media from their mobile phones and share it easily.
Today you can browse and discover Twango media and members geographically. Surf the globe and see Twango photos, videos, and audio on the other side of the earth or in your own backyard. Any geo-tagged item on Twango (e.g. any item with a location value applied) can appear on Google Earth. So remember, apply location tags to your media pages so that you and others can see them on Google Earth. To view Twango media on Google Earth:
1. Install Google Earth (it's free) if you haven't already
2. View geo-tagged media from across the Twango community
Click one of these links (Safari users may have to click the KML file after it's downloaded to launch Google Earth)
- http://feeds.twango.com/kml/mostpopular/media
- http://feeds.twango.com/kml/mostpopular/members
- http://feeds.twango.com/kml/mostrecent/media
- http://feeds.twango.com/kml/mostrecent/photos
- http://feeds.twango.com/kml/mostrecent/videos
- http://feeds.twango.com/kml/mostrecent/audio
3. View geo-tagged media from a particular channel
Go to the channel page, click the Subscribe button, then click the "Google Earth" icon on the popup.
4. View all geo-tagged media from a particular member
Go to the member's profile page and click the "view in Google Earth" link near the top.
Clicking the links in the instructions above establishes a KML feed between Twango and Google Earth. The feed automatically keeps Google Earth up to date with the latest geo-tagged items from the particular Twango feeds you've established.
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