Eric Fischer, digital cartographer extraordinaire, is at it again with a new series of maps that track the paths that smartphone-toting people take to travel through cities. Using geotagged tweets, the Oakland-based data visualization specialist has plotted the arteries of Twitter traffic for a host of cities around the world including Toronto.

Does your new Apple iPhone need a screen repair? There are plenty of Toronto stores that will do the trick. In what is becoming a booming business in Toronto as iPhone (and iPad) sales continue to soar, iPhone repair (particularly glass and screen repair) does exist beyond your friendly local Apple retail store. Here are seven Toronto options for where to repair your broken iPhone screen. These stores will generally be able to repair all iPhone models include the 3, 3gs and 4.

This weekend, Random Hacks of Kindness took over the CSI Annex, and developers from all over Toronto came together to work on a number of projects. On Saturday, representatives from different NPOs made proposals to the hall full of hackers. Claire Buré, a researcher at CSI, proposed a mobile app for reporting bike crash data. I ended up hacking on an urban tree mapping web app but during the hackathon everyone floated around a bit to get help and share ideas with fellow hackers, which is how I learned about this new app.

The Craigslist sites for Canadian cities have been down this morning, with only a cryptic message of explanation on the homepage that refers to terms of use violations. Here's the error message that greets would-be bargain hunters: "The website formerly operating at this domain violated craigslist's Terms of Use (TOU), and/or enabled or facilitated others in violating the TOU, and/or infringed craigslist's trademark(s) or other intellectual property."

Spotcycle was already a pretty useful app for BIXI users in Toronto (and other cities), but it didn't exactly stand out in terms of its features. Like a number of other apps, it allowed bike-share users to locate nearby stations and to monitor the availability of bikes and docking spaces within the system. That's nothing to shake a stick at, I suppose — the app was free and my version wasn't particularly "buggy," so no complaints.

Popular discourse would deem "to find a girlfriend" certainly not among the top five reasons to attend Gamercamp this year, though I'd call that stereotype is a tired one. Gamercamp LV3 is happening this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, bringing together players of all creeds to bask in game-related knowledge and joy. While the idea alone should be enough to seduce the 3 p.m. pajama-clad from their basement virtual worlds, here are a few additional reasons for those who are sitting on the (security fence).