Location and News(papers), also for Intranet?

The New York Times has an interesting 'experimental projects' group, beta620. ReadWriteWeb recently pointed to an interesting experiment, called Longitude.
Wouldn't it be neat if news items could be browsed through by a map? So you can see what news has been published about the city or country you live in or are interested in? Longitude does just this.

One thing I was wondering is: Is this concept also interesting for the intranet? Could it be valuable to international companies to link the news items and intranet pages to a location? Clearly there are good cases for the combination of location and intranet. Curious to hear your thoughts about this.

Go ahead and play with Longitude. Great stuff for in the weekend if you ask me!

Enterprise Memolane

Wow, this is very interesting! Memolane, a timeline for all your social media traces. One of the things that popped up when I saw this was: hey, this is great way to find back old tweets (as Twitter search being so aweful...).

And, wouldn't this also be great for a business environment? It would tell you when you sent emails, checked-in/-out documents, searched for information on the intranet, etc.?
What I understand is that Memolane is not moving into this space. Business opportunity!

Are You in the Twitter Parade?

This is great fun! Go to this webpage, type in your Twitter handle or a keyword and sit back and enjoy.