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Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced<\/a> on the company blog that they have acquired Mixer Labs<\/a>, creators of GeoAPI<\/a>. In a nutshell, GeoAPI provides developers with the ability to query the world through services which include a reverse geocoder; deep data about 16 million businesses and tens of thousands of points of interest; a writable layer for developers to annotate the world and do complex geo-queries; and location-enabled media layers (e.g., Twitter and Flickr). Just recently, they added an iPhone SDK to speed up mobile development as well.<\/p>\n GeoAPI will be integrated directly into the Twitter API, speeding up Twitter’s efforts in the geo-location space. In August 2009, Twitter first announced that they’re getting into the geo-location game as well. And, in September, a lot of you<\/a> started seeing the Geo API in action through apps like Tweetie, Birdfeed, etc. <\/p>\n Geo-location has been a hot topic these last few months with contenders including Foursquare<\/a>, Gowalla<\/a> (which recently took a hefty amount of funding in<\/a>), Stalqer<\/a>, Seesmic Web<\/a>, and many more applications.<\/p>\n It’ll be interesting to see how companies like SimpleGeo<\/a> will thrive in the space now, especially since a lot of SimpleGeo’s data is Twitter and social network based.<\/p>\n Mixer Labs actually started out<\/a> as TownMe, a site that is a comprehensive guide to pretty much everything that\u2019s relevant at the local level, from restaurant reviews to the best schools and hospitals in town.<\/p>\n It’s good to note that Mixer Labs are all ex-Google employees. CEO ELad Gil and Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver were both on<\/a> the Geo panel at our Real Time Crunchup in November.<\/p>\n Crunch Network<\/em><\/strong>: CrunchBase<\/a> <\/em>the free database of technology companies, people, and investors<\/p>\n