Links (5th August 2008)

• News gathering and reporting with Twitter
  An informative guide to why Twitter is an essential tool for local newsgathering and reporting.
  
  
• Google expands Street View imagery to Japan and Australia
  Yet more detailed street images available via Google Earth and Google Maps.
  
  
• Mapufacture joins with FortiusOne
  Exciting times ahead in the world of freely available mapping and geodata applications.
  
  
• Nokia N82 phones used as newsgathering tools
  Nokia has partnered with Bizcommunity.com to offer journalists at the title Nokia N82 phones to produce multimedia reports for the site using the five megapixel camera and ‘DVD-like quality video capture’.
  
  
• New Beijing Olympics Satellite Imagery now in Google Earth
  Google has quietly slipped in brand new satellite imagery taken by Geoeye on July 19th, 2008 showing the Beijing Olympics venues.
  
  
• Yahoo drives 100 million users to local newspaper websites (in the US)
  Yahoo's partnership with local newspapers in the US has caused a surge in traffic to the titles' websites.