by Anne Collier
NetFamilyNews.org
If your family celebrates Christmas, you can track Santa’s global progress on Christmas Eve, thanks to Web 2.0!
You can get minute-by-minute reports on Twitter’s noradsanta feed. As I write, Santa was just spotted in Kango, Gabon. Earlier, I watched as he, his reindeer and sleigh visited Southeast Asia, and threaded their way through the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. (Rudolph’s apparently quite a hotdog.)
You can also follow Santa on SantaCam video thanks to a partnership between NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) and Google. NORAD has been tracking Santa every Christmas Eve since 1955. You can see his global progress and flight path here.
I learned about Santa’s Twitter feed and the SantaCam from the Toronto Globe and Mail in an article that describes how NORAD began tracking Santa and provides more details about the new Web 2.0 tracking tools. I love that “kids can follow along in seven languages through the website or on a smart phone by using Google Maps.”I just checked the Twitter feed and since I began writing, Santa has reached Berlin, Germany!
Happy whatever holidays to every last one of you!
