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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 7:57am CEST
Mastering mind mapping can help at work. May 17th, 2008 Most people accept, I believe, that we are on the verge of recession. Maybe already in the downturn in parts of the western hemisphere. So what’s that got to do with mind mapping? Survival! I’ve just put up a few thoughts on how you can use mind mapping skills to better your chances if downsizing looms: Visual mapping and recession-proofing your job Tip of the hat to Chuck Frey for suggesting this topic to me. Vic Gee ht
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 5:10am CEST
เมื่อวันที่ 8 พฤษภาคม 2551 Oce ผู้ผลิดระบบทำสำเนาและจัดเก็บเอกสารที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก จัด Oce Road Show Mind Map สโมสรกอร์ฟพัฒนา ชลบุรี ให้กับลูกค้าฝังตะวันออก ในจังหวัด ชลบุรี ระยองและฉะเชิงเทรา จำนวน ประมาณ 80 คน รวมกับพนักงานของ Oce เองอีกประมาณ 15 คน [ธัญญา ผลอนันต์ และ Mr.Andreas Luebbers] Mr. Andres Luebbers, Managing Directors ของ Oce (Thailand) เล่าว่าเป็นชาวเยอรมัน และใช้ Mind Map มาหลายปีแล้ว ก่อนที่จะเข้าตำรงตำแหน่งใหม่นี้ในประเทศไทยเมื่อกลางปี 2550 เคยทำงานในสายการตลาดระหว่าวงประเทศ
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:25am CEST
New government “noise maps” (road / rail / industry / air-travel) for the West Midlands, launched today. Judging by my few test look-ups, they’re not especially accurate in mapping noise, and the postcode lookup is about a mile “off” on the provided maps — but these might be interesting for some.
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 2:02am CEST
Presdo schedule helper: Clever, but not enough May 17th, 2008 I do appreciate the Google-simple start page. Of all the meeting time brokers I’ve seen, Presdo is the most peculiar. Which means it’s worth checking out. Unlike other apps I’ve covered (Timebridge, Jiffle, Tungle, Timedriver, etc.) Presdo’s strength is not that it automates the selection of meeting times that work out for attendees (it doesn’t), but rather that it helps script the dialogue that’s usually a part of the back-a
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 1:05am CEST
We are pleased to announce a few enhancements to our API which we thought you might find relevant, and update you on a few changes. First, we pushed out a major update of our database which now includes over 40,000 neighborhoods throughout the United States. This is a significant milestone. We continue to research and expand our coverage beyond the major metropolitan centers into minor cities, exurbs, and suburbs. Check out our expanding coverage map! Second, responding to several requests fo
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:58am CEST
MapTube: a place to put maps… “The main principle of MapTube is that shared maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For example, to see a map of the London Underground overlayed on top of a map of population you simply go to the search page and enter the keywords “tube” and “population”. Then click on the two relevant maps to add them . […] For the last few weeks a back end section of the site has been used by BBC Radio Four’s PM Show to create a mood map of the credit crunch in the
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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST
Firefly lets everyone talk over your site May 17th, 2008 I’ve heard of death by a thousand cuts, but never cursors–that was until Firefly, a less-than-practical approach to letting your site visitors communicate with one another in real time. The service lets everyone see each other’s cursors live as they zip around the page and lets them chat with one another via text. To strike up conversation, just start typing and a chat bubble will form above your cursor. Everyone’s public chats are st
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:58pm CEST
Green Map Project Lead As there seem to be so many projects at N2Y3 that involve a mapping component, I though I would introduce myself and make some connections. My mind is rather blown with some of the latest developments in online mapping, having just returned from Where 2.0 in San Francisco. My background is in Drupal development, and I've done a lot with the Google Map module. You can see some of the stuff at the beta of Green Map's project for N2Y3 - the Open Green Map. If anyone has q
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:20pm CEST
“Quicklet” - A Podcast for QuickBooks Pro, Premier, Enterprise Solutions, Point of Sale and Peachtree users featuring helpful information, tips, tricks and suggestions for bookkeepers, business owners, and consultants. Got a QuickBooks Mess? Call The QuickBooks Gal! Hi, I'm Jayne Miller, The QuickBooks Gal. Welcome to another in my series of “Quicklets” – informational podcasts about QuickBooks, Peachtree and related bookkeeping topics. Today, I want to discuss a process that many folks ha
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:19pm CEST
Following up on the last post about the NYS Orthoimagery WMS Mapping layer, there are more and more layers available. See this site:
[www.skylab-mobilesystems.com] If you see a WMS layer of interest, Right-click the name in Internet Explorer and choose "Copy Shortcut". Then go into ArcCatalog and create a new WMS Mapping Service. (See instructions previous post). Enter the URL of the WMS you want in the dialog box, and add your service!
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:14pm CEST
I recently had to use a backup of this blog to re-import its content. As a result some of the links are no longer working, but I do not have time to check them at the moment. If you are looking for the Mindmanager GTD templates I released ages ago, you can find them at the following address:
[pascalvenier.com] This blog is not dead but only sleeping! I have been very busy cranking academic widgets and have been too busy to blog! Among my most recent experiments in personal product
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:06pm CEST
WujWuj makes group gifting easier, at a price May 17th, 2008 WujWuj is a badly named, yet really simple to use group gifting service. The aim is to let you gift a single friend with one or more items from Amazon.com and spread out the payment over a group of friends. It’s not a new idea–Fundable and FromEveryone do this. As do HomeSlyce and ChipIn, which manage to tack on general purpose fund raising as well. What might be WujWuj’s greatest asset is that it handles multiple gift giving wi
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:03pm CEST
Google to host ‘Factory Tour’ Monday morning May 17th, 2008 Google is hosting a media circus, or “Factory Tour,” at its Mountain View campus on Monday morning. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, will be speaking. At other events I’ve heard her speak at, she’s given good overviews of the directions Google Search is going. The other scheduled speakers are: Google's Marissa Mayer (Credit: Dan Farber / CNET) Carter Maslan, from Google Maps R.J. Pittman, GM of
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 10:42pm CEST
The latest show of climbing video game sales came in April’s 47 percent year over year increase. The $1.23 billion in game & console sales was buoyed by continued success of the Nintendo Wii, as well as the release of the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV. As this usage continues to climb there are also developments from marketers looking to capitalize on the high engagement and repetitive use of video games. With lots of talk of product placement and contextualized ads on television, it’s
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 10:26pm CEST
Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications Book Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is now available in all good book stores, edited by Martin Doge, Mary McDerby and Martin Turner it includes a chapter by us on the ‘Visual City’ and is genuinely a must read for those interested in the field. The text covers the impact of three-dimensional displays on user interaction along with the potentialities in animation and clearly explains how to create temporally
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 10:18pm CEST
Like Google Maps, but better! Acme Mapper 2.0
[mapper.acme.com] Developer: ACME Laboratories Price: Free, Google AdSense supporte One of my favorite tools in our Web 2.0 world is Google Maps. I remember when Google launched the site a few years back and I was blown away. Then came the satellite and hybrid views. Then came Google Street View and its associated controversy. What else could someone ask for? Acme Mapper 2.0 answers that question. In addition to all the features
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:58pm CEST
Vodafone acquires contact management service ZYB May 16th, 2008 European telecom giant Vodafone announced Friday that its Vodafone Europe BV subsidiary has acquired ZYB, a Danish company that specializes in online contact and calendar management. The price, as stated by Vodafone, is 31.5 million euros, or $48.7 million. “Using a Web portal as a link between the PC and the mobile device, ZYB provides an interactive way for people to nurture, contact, and develop their relationships with thei
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:42pm CEST
OK, well i want to spend a little time talking about the project I just finished with making MapQuest Flash Maps in flex. Project Refresher: This project was to bring in demographics data and other informational data per zip code from internal systems, and using those choice zip codes to display zip code polygons on the map, somewhere between 50 and 2100 zip codes, effectively. The zip codes will be colored based on system or demographics data, whichever the user chooses, and displayed to t
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
Mashable reports that Google Maps features a new API that has flash graphics that can be used for each title layer, maker and information windows. This means you can create more dynamic map mashups. Not only does Google Maps have flash graphics, but they have also added the ability for video sharing, Wikipedia entries, real estate listings, and geo-coded photos. Google Earth and David Rumsey have formed a relationship where historical map collections are available through a Google Earth lay
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:36pm CEST
This program, made by ShadowFlare, lets you easily add colors to text in StarCraft maps. You just have to click on the color that you want, click Copy into clipboard, and paste it where you want the color to be. Check the spoiler below to read the readme. Show Spoiler ▼ ——————— Starcraft Text Colors ——————— This is a useful program for adding colors to mission briefing text, trigger text and other text in Starcraft. To add colors to text in a map, select the color you want to use and cl
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:01pm CEST
I was walking in a unseeing cloud of frustration after a tiring work day, but when I got to the tube station I was humbled. I step into the lift and a man there says "Is this going down?" "Don't know. Should be," I reply curtly, without any warmth. "I'm not angry. I can't see. I'm blind," he says, though perhaps he saw enough of the flush on my face as I softened. I try not to wince at my own embarrassment and the lift descends. There's a silence until I say, "Can I help you at the bottom?
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:59pm CEST
Projektmanager haben mit einer Vielfalt an Aufgaben und demzufolge notwendigen Methoden zu tun. Hierzu zählen sowohl eher technische Methoden im Bereich der gesamten Projektdurchführung, vor allem aber auch Verantwortlichkeiten in der Kommunikation, incl der Informations und Wissensvermittlung. Die grundlegende Kenntnis von wichtigen Methodiken und Werkzeugen ist hierbei zwar unumgänglich, im täglichen Tagesgeschäft sind aber nicht immer alle grundsätzlich verstandenen Zusammenhänge unmittelba
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:59pm CEST
DIY pixel art made easy with Cubescape May 16th, 2008 Pixel art has held a special place in the the world of Web 2.0. Most recently it reared its head at Adobe Systems’ Engage event earlier this year, where attendees received a poster with pixel art characters using various Adobe products. The poster was professionally designed, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got to go out and buy some special software or take digital art classes to have some fun making your own. Enter Cubescape, a simple ap
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 5:08pm CEST
“Hands on” concept mapping May 16th, 2008 Pretty fluid, cool, and oh yeah, expensive? … once they’re past the proof-of-concept stage. wikiWall - Stefano Baraldi’s Master’s Thesis. Projected from above. Watch it in action here:
[www.youtube.com] And this one would catch the kiddies’ attention when they complain about having to do concept maps for homework. The Surface-like tabulaTouch. Catch it in action at this link:
[www.youtube.com]
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 5:08pm CEST
Chuck Frey has done a comparison of the functions of some of the web based mind mapping services. Starting from Tiffany Brown’s comparison chart that I blogged about almost a year ago (here: “Valuable comparison of four web-based services“), he did a great job of updating that and adding the new kid on the block, MeadMAP as well. With Tiffany’s permission, he has now published this extended, in-depth comparison. And what’s more, you can download it free. For each of these web apps: MindMeis
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:46pm CEST
Одной строкой… мая.16, 2008 in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Индустрия Leave a Comment В последнее время маловато новостей о Call of Duty - тотальный летний инактив всё ближе и ближе. Так что вполне уместно завести рубрику “Одной строкой…”. Сейчас новые подробности о патче 1.6, конкурсе карт от IW и продажах CoD 4 за апрель этого года… Читать далее…
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:45pm CEST
JMars Software Open Sourced mapmaking, tools No Comments » Government Computer News reports that the source code for the Java Mission-planning and Analysis Remote Sensing (JMars) application that has been used by NASA for Mars exploration is now released under GPL license. The software is a Java-based geospatial information system that was developed by the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. The program provides a GIS-style interface for the details gathered by NASA sensor
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:09pm CEST
Yahoo teams up with ad powerhouse WPP Group May 16th, 2008 Yahoo announced Friday that it has formed a partnership with three subsidiaries of advertising giant WPP: GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital. Through the deal, WPP agencies will have access to Yahoo-served ad space and work closely with the Right Media ad exchange, in which Yahoo was a major investor before it outright acquired the digital-ad platform in 2007. No financial terms were disclosed. “More and more, we see the need
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 1:03pm CEST
I blogged earlier that DEFRA had announced new noise maps were online, without actually putting them online. The good news: the link to the maps is now up. The bad news: it doesn’t currently work. Watch this space…
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:26pm CEST
Accurately this morning Anima happened so as to collide Jonathan Marlow, a hunger-Triassic exec at GreenCine, the pioneering DVD subrent and figural download locality. (The ingroup started extinguish by what name a so to speak Netflix in place of indies, printing movies, and grown move.) Marlow is our times cave in in re the pitch in-maximize Cabinetic(his MySpace hand is aboard.) Them mentioned nonetheless slack-handedly that GreenCine had been sold over against the founders re WantedList, a
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 10:36am CEST
5、1去白云山......自寻死路........逼死........逼颠=。。= 果日....快乐与痛苦.....既一日....... 白云山.......虽然D&a
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 10:17am CEST
Since the last post things have kicked off in a big way, not only have I started the map but now I have seven thoughts which encompasses more than just simple run-of-the-mill musings but certainly some insightful and interesting results. One of the thoughts I have are quite negative on the face of it, but actually since writing it has came about a shift in those kind of patterns too. So, yes, it is certainly an interesting tool to be used to communicate your innermost thoughts and ideals. I
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:49am CEST
The End of Resume Search Posted on 16 May 2008 Comments (0) Tags: Career & Jobs The End of Resume Search – Next Level Results with Simple & Effective Mapping at GoRecroot Resume searches are predominantly based on keyword search on flat files. This approach is transactional and consumes recruiter time and effort. GoRecroot has an intelligent job order to resume mapping method. This mapping method gets recruiters […]
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:40am CEST
Noise mapping 16 May, 2008 at 7:40 am · Filed under Going green ·Tagged airports, Cardiff, England, London, noise mapping, Northern Ireland, Scotland Rule number 1 of PR announcements: make sure the thing you are launching is ready. I got excited about a news item on the ‘Today’ programme this morning; the Government is publishing noise maps for large parts of the country, available on the DEFRA website. Except the DEFRA maps aren’t there yet! Frustratingly, London’s noise map has been tak
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:09am CEST
Mind Mapping Work Shop # 1,368 จัดให้กับ บริษัท ระยองเพียวริฟายเออร์ จำกัด (มหาชน)ที่โรงแรม Golden Beach ระยอง มีผู้เข้ารับการอบรม 37 คน
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:07am CEST
Just a quick “news plus links to remember” post: Both Google and Yahoo! are opening up there geographical indexes - Yahoo! with the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform and Google with a soon-to-be-released GeoSearch API. [Via The Map Room and Google Earth Blog] And one more: Though there have been a few Flash-powered Google Maps apps out there before, no official Flash API support was available for Google Maps until now. No more. Yesterday, Google has officially released a Google Maps API for
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 8:12am CEST
En un post anterior ya se vio los conceptos basicos del modelado de base de datos y las ventajas que nos ofrece el diseñar nuestras bases de datos con algun tipo de software adecuado para ello. Pero obviamente estos modelos no nos sirven para nada sino no los transformamos en sentencias SQL. La forma que se [...]
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:54am CEST
Philips are obviously making a go at the high-end market, something they’ve been keeping away for quite some time. Today they’ve officially stepped up with two new handsets - the Philips X800 and the Philips Xenium X-Connect. The Philips X800 is a full touch-screen device with a large display, while the Philips Xenium X-Connect is a Windows Mobile-based device with an even bigger TFT display. Let’s not waste any more time and delve into the specifics. The Philips X800 is the first full-touch d
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:23am CEST
Lately I've been a little bit disenchanted with my mind maps. Not because of content, just because I would create a map and often not look at it again. Also, when you work in mind mapping for a living, sometimes you just don't feel like going back into a map and fooling with looking at it. May sound crazy, yet if you map it right you've committed a lot of it to memory. I'm mostly talking about content maps... execution maps I live in. It's like the fast food employee who burns out on hamburgers
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:02am CEST
I’ve just spent the last three days at Where 2.0 in Burlingame. It was a whirlwind event, exhausting, super interesting, and SUCH a different experience from academia… The best part was meeting a bunch of people I had either interviewed or researched over the past year: Lisa Parks from UCSB, Dan Catt from Flickr, Di-Ann Eisnor from Platial, Andrew Turner and Mikel Maron from Mapufacture, plus a bunch of other great people I hadn’t talked to before. I’m hoping to pull my thoughts and notes toge
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:00am CEST
The ability of Google Inc’s map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if it was introduced there, the EU’s data protection agency said on Thursday.Google’s Street View offers ground-level, 360-degree views of streets in 30 U.S. cities. It has become popular among drivers but courted controversy over potential privacy invasion. “Making pictures everywhere is certainly going to create some problems,” European Union Data Protection Supervisor P
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:35am CEST
WorldMate, the leading provider of mobile travel services for business travelers, and Telmap, the world leader in mobile location and navigation solutions, today announced the integration of Telmap Navigator into the WorldMate Live mobile application. WorldMate Live members are now able to use maps and directions provided by Telmap through its Telmap Navigator application, as well as its branded applications such as MapQuest Navigator, enabling easy navigation to destinations, such as airports,
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:34am CEST
WorldMate, the leading provider of mobile travel services for business travelers, and Telmap, the world leader in mobile location and navigation solutions, today announced the integration of Telmap Navigator into the WorldMate Live mobile application. WorldMate Live members are now able to use maps and directions provided by Telmap through its Telmap Navigator application, as well as its branded applications such as MapQuest Navigator, enabling easy navigation to destinations, such as airports,
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:34am CEST
WorldMate, the leading provider of mobile travel services for business travelers, and Telmap, the world leader in mobile location and navigation solutions, today announced the integration of Telmap Navigator into the WorldMate Live mobile application. WorldMate Live members are now able to use maps and directions provided by Telmap through its Telmap Navigator application, as well as its branded applications such as MapQuest Navigator, enabling easy navigation to destinations, such as airports,
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 2:17am CEST
Google Translate speaks 10 new languages May 16th, 2008 Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India. The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish. That brings the total to 23 languages, Google said in a blog posting Thursday. In addition, Google added a language-detection feature that can guess the source language a user is trying to tran
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 1:47am CEST
Can NBC’s iCue teach you anything new? May 16th, 2008 Last week NBC quietly released a learning tool called iCue in conjunction with MIT. (See coverage on CNET TV’s Loaded.) It’s been designed as a “learning environment” using a large collection of news clips taken from NBC’s video archives to enable anyone to catch up on news coverage and current events. This archived footage is put into context, as long as viewers are willing to acknowledge that the content is coming only from one source
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:50am CEST
Meraki is offering free WiFi to San Francisco. Why? May 16th, 2008 There is no business model behind it, but mesh WiFi company Meraki is offering free WiFi access to San Francisco, one neighborhood at a time, as I discovered when I passed by the company’s folksy demo table at my local farmers’ market last month (see report from local newspaper). But Meraki is not in the business of just blasting money out the door, which it appears to be doing in San Francisco, and there is a method to t
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:50am CEST
Meraki is offering free Wi-Fi to San Francisco. Why? May 16th, 2008 There is no business model behind it, but mesh Wi-Fi company Meraki is offering free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco, one neighborhood at a time, as I discovered when I passed by the company’s folksy demo table at my local farmers’ market last month (see report from local newspaper). But Meraki is not in the business of just blasting money out the door, which it appears to be doing in San Francisco, and there is a method t
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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:12am CEST
Labels: conference, location, mapping, maps, o'reilly, where2, where2.0, where20, where20Conf08
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:45pm CEST
I’ve been working with an architect on a project in Camden that allowed me to incorporate some of my 3D modeling skills. I firmly believe that incorporating 3D visualization (even if its hand-drawn perspective renderings) is key to any development or planning project. Most people cannot make sense of plan or elevation views. Detailed street sections are completely incomprehensible to the average person. 3D perspectives allow the public to get a better sense of what the physical structure will
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:28pm CEST
Mein nächstes Mapping Projekt ist entwas umfangreicher, zum ersten mal in meiner (sehr) kurzen Mapping Geschichte versuche ich nun mein vollkommen eigenes ORPG zu gestalten. Die meisten probleme habe ich beim Save/Load system, was einfach nicht so will wie ich, aber das wird schon noch.
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 9:47pm CEST
We've had icons for a while, allowing you to upload images to decorate maps, features, and your account. Due to popular demand, we've now added the ability to add photos images to features and maps. The maximum pictures size is now 640x640. Unlike the smaller image sizes, this large size isn't cropped to be a square. Thus, nothing will be cut out of the image. Here is what the "Feature Photos" looks like in the feature viewer: Next up is a photo browser, that lets you see browse through p
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 9:13pm CEST
Facebook suspends participation in Google’s Friend Connect May 15th, 2008 This post was updated at 12:51 PM. A post Thursday on Facebook’s developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google’s “Friend Connect” project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service. “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology,” the post by Facebook employee Charlie Cheever read. “We’ve found that it redistributes user i
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:56pm CEST
Google’s ReadAir delivers desktop newsfeeds May 15th, 2008 I’ve been looking at quite a few good desktop applications built on Adobe AIR (such as eBay Desktop and Twhirl), and am pleased to report that ReadAir, a Google Reader released on Thursday that is coded to run on Adobe’s cross-platform solution, ranks among them. ReadAir synchronizes with your account to deliver news with a Mac feel. (Credit: CNET Networks) ReadAir mirrors Google Reader’s functionality with a cleaner interface a
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:51pm CEST
Interactive Mapping: Taking Advantage of Google May 15th, 2008 Posted in Interactive Mapping | No Comments » When most people think about Google and their real estate websites, they’re immediately going to start thinking about search engine optimization. While that’s important, let’s take a look today at something that’s got people buzzing: interactive mapping for their listings with Google: (source)There’s a new option to search for real estate: click on “show search options” and select “rea
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:15pm CEST
Connecting executives (and celebs) with NNDB Mapper May 15th, 2008 NNDB, a directory of important people and celebrities (the two are not exclusive) standing for Notable Names Database, has put together a mapping tool that lets you connect the dots to see how people are intertwined. One example, featured in this demo video, shows the overlap of board members for large tech companies, including Apple, Intel, Yahoo, and Microsoft. You can use the tool to figure out who’s worked where, then
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:14pm CEST
White Nationalist Raises Ugly Head Again Posted on May 15, 2008 by Tariq Nelson As some of you may know, last year a white nationalist organization by the name of SANE wrote a lying hit piece on the Dar Al-Hijrah community that contained many outright lies and distortions. However, since I exposed their lies and uncovered their openly white supremist views, they have been dormant and have not similarly attacked any other Muslim organizations with their paranoid filth as they promised. People
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:08pm CEST
Over the past couple of days Urban Mapping has put out press releases saying that it now has neighborhood maps/boundaries for “40,000 neighborhoods in 2,000 U.S. cities and towns. This is in addition to 10,000 neighborhoods in Canada and Europe.” It also has detailed data for 53 transit systems across the US. (Here’s more discussion/explanation on the Urban Mapping blog.) This is tons and tons of data. Google Transit covers a somewhat smaller area of the US but has more international covera
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:03pm CEST
Bei tagesschau.de gibt es ja seit geraumer Zeit den Nachrichtenweltatlas. Der Westen arbeitet ebenfalls mit einer Verortung seiner Inhalte und setzt dabei auf die (meiner Beobachtung nach eher leidliche Beteiligung seiner User). Eine Nummer größer will der Dienstleister Metacarta ansetzen. Im Google-News-Stil scannt er den Output anderer Websites und verortet die Artikel. Das Angebot ist auch bisher eher mäßig. Die Firma dahinter setzt auf künftige Kunden, denen sie ihre Software verkaufen kann
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:30pm CEST
On the C7Y website, a new tutorial has been posted from Nate Abele (following his previous CakePHP-related article) covering the use of the framework to create a REST web service and manage resources inside of it. read more
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:05pm CEST
Bubble 2.0 Watch: Aggregation site Brijit shuts down May 15th, 2008 Brijit.com, an aggregation site that summed online news stories and other content up in 100 words or fewer for quick consumption, has shut its doors. The shutdown is ideally temporary, the site’s management said Thursday, but a placeholder on the front page admitted that Brijit “is out of money and can no longer afford to bring you the world in 100 words.” A post on Brijit’s blog by CEO and Editor In Chief Jeremy Brosow
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:00pm CEST
Forget-me-not service Kwiry adds photo nagging May 15th, 2008 Kwiry, the memory-saving tool I wrote about back in December, has just put out a useful update for people who don’t like to type. Users can now send photos to their Kwiry stream in hopes of digging up a search for it later. The company is hoping people will use this to catalog things they come across in everyday life, and bookmark them for later like people do with links on services like Delicious and Magnolia. Kwiry’s creators
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:59pm CEST
Walkable urbanism is the new buzzword in community planning and development. Websites are dedicated to neighborhood walks, the brookings institute has a collection of several articles by Chris Leinberger, and now you can even check the walkable score of your own neighborhood. [Image: Walkable urbanism is a new trend in the popular perception of neighborhoods. [...]
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:53pm CEST
In the post “Assessment 101,” I mentioned that Scott Eichelberger and his ilk get a lot of grilling while staffing the 3TIER booth, and not just about the location of the restrooms, or which booths give away the best tchotchkes. People want to know how our method, numerical weather prediction (NWP), compares to other techniques. Many of our competitors are using a method called measure, correlate, predict, or MCP. Here’s the skinny on some key differences between the two. (more…)
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 6:00pm CEST
Yahoo beckons coders to gussy up search results May 15th, 2008 Yahoo on Thursday will take one of its first big steps to make its site a more vital part of the Internet. The company will offer developer tools to let programmers start using SearchMonkey, technology to make search results more elaborate and, the company hopes, more useful. SearchMonkey lets programmers write applications that can turn dry textual listings in search results into a much more elaborate display, and Yahoo
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:43pm CEST
This just in…Umibot is pleased to announce a few enhancements to our Neighborhood REST API… In addition to our significantly-increased neighborhood coverage we’ve responded to developer requests and enhanced the REST API’s getNeighborhoodByLatLng to offer the option to return zero-to-one results, as opposed to the default zero-to-n results. Why does this matter? Particularly in urban areas, neighborhood boundaries are organic, complex and because they are culturally defined phenomena. They a
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:41pm CEST
Lately I have been interested in Bayesian approaches for genome wide association mapping. These have the benefit of often being able to consider all data in a single model and from that score markers with their probability of being related to the disease without the usual multiple testing problems. So for our journal club today, I picked the following paper for us: Bayesian Graphical Models for Genomewide Association Studies Verzilli, Stallard and Whittaker American Journal of Human Genet
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:40pm CEST
Recent Trends in Human Resource Management Contracting Success The contract research industry is currently riding a crest. And with serious money pouring in, there’s plenty of reason to smile. OUTSOURCING of research to India is not a new phenomenon. In fact, India, with its oft-praised technically proficient, low-cost talent pool has today come to be known as a high-quality research and
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:18pm CEST
Success is more than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the aspects of your life. Similar to a map, you need to define the following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route. Origin: Who you are A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. Most people when asked to introduce themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Jean and I am a 17-year old, senior highschool student.” It does not tell you about who Jea
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST
At the Where 2.0 show Google’s John Hanke in his keynote discussed Google Maps’ evolution from a yellow pages like database of service business listings, plotted on a map, to something much broader. Indeed, Google seems to be rapidly building out Maps will all kinds of additional information. And the community/My Maps feature is a key element of all of it. The company is also experimenting with how best to surface this information: Recently it added images from Panaramio (theoretically Fli
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 4:59pm CEST
Success is more than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the aspects of your life. Similar to a map, you need to define the following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route. Origin: Who you are A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. Most people when asked to introduce themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Jean and I am a 17-year old, senior highschool student.” It does not tell you about who Jean
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 4:32pm CEST
Connecting your handheld device with iBT-GPS. Please refer to the user manual of PDA to enable the Bluetooth. connectivity. If the connection between..iBT-GPS Solar Bluetooth GPS Data Logger User’s Manual Published on 8-Feb-2007 Rev 1.1 8029504601A2 (more…)
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 3:30pm CEST
relief projection lab at bit teatergarasjen by hc gilje april 2008, originally uploaded by hc gilje. This easter I got the opportunity to work in a large theaterspace (BIT Teatergarasjen) to continue my work on relief projection (or masked projection). I made 9 plywood boxes to use as my projection objects, and worked with two projectors, having a total of 16 projection surfaces. One of the aims for this session was to also work with sound (each object would double as a speaker), and to c
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 3:28pm CEST
Google Maps lets loose a Flash-y API May 15th, 2008 Google has released a Google Maps application program interface that enables developers to use the mapping software in applications that use Adobe Systems’ Flash technology. “We’ve designed it so that Flash graphics can be used for each tile layer, marker, and info window,” a n announcement by Google Maps engineer Mike Jones read, “opening up possibilities like dynamic shading, shadowing, animation, and video.” Earlier this week, Google M
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 3:21pm CEST
Susi Watson developed this unique map for people who wanted want to visit the various tourist attractions in San Francisco. Unfortunately, non-Mindjet users can’t open the branches to see the details. Above are two versions of her map. One is the collapsed overview and the second map is expanded in a few places to show some of the map’s many details. I suspect many of you would like to know how she created this map, so let me give you some background. I was introduced to Susi in the fall of 2
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:36pm CEST
Apparently Google have developed sophisticated face-blurring technology in a bid to protect the privacy of those of us captured in any forthcoming filming for it’s Street View service, within Google Maps. Privacy concerns were raised across several cities States-side last year prior to their roll-out within the service. Meanwhile further concerns have been raised in EU countries, where citizens are protected by a general right to privacy, under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act. This news is
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:07pm CEST
BitComet 0.58 Final May 15th, 2008 BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Changelog : v0.58 2005.5
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 2:01pm CEST
Une quinzaine de mots de vocabulaire sur l'architecture des châteaux féodaux. Utilisation de l'image mapping pour isoler les parties du château à afficher. Autre lien vers une page présentant le glossaire des châteaux médiévaux
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:34pm CEST
Google has introduced a API that will allow developers to use Flash when building Google Maps. Aside from creating a speedier and smoother operation as users move around maps the new interface creates the opportunity for a more creative approach to map building and use. Have a look at the nice example on the Google Maps API blog. “We knew that version 1 of any software project is not perfect, so we opted to split the interface and implementation. As a result, you can build against the current
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:32pm CEST
's map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if it was introduced there, the EU's data protection agency said on Thursday. BRUXELLES (Reuters) - La capacité de Google Inc "s service de cartographie détaillée de mettre de plain-pied des images sur l'Internet pourrait soulever des préoccupations en Europe si elle a été introduite, l'Union européenne sur la protection des données agence a dit jeudi. 's Street View offers ground-level, 360-de
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:27pm CEST
What kind of crowd scene or performance piece could you develop with the aid of P2P sat-nav on your phone? A new technology for automobiles gives some hints. Dash Driver Network™ approaches traffic in an entirely different way – by collecting it from other people driving real commute routes, during real commute times. Each Dash Express anonymously and automatically sends its position and speed back to servers at the Dash Network Operations Center. The Dash servers then update all other Dash
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 11:17am CEST
Tone & Gamma 15. 05. 2008 um 02:22 Uhr Some terms we’ll need to define: Gamma: is a nonlinear operation to code and decode luminance in video or still image systems. There is a whole science to it and to start reading, introduce yourself to a wiki article. Tone Mapping: is a process of mapping colours/tones to reduce strong contrasts and map them to the displayable range and maintaining image details. Monitor Calibration: a process to measure the colour response of a device and match it to
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:29am CEST
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:53am CEST
From overly chatty WLAN systems to IT consultant shenanigans, some of the worst IT problems facing companies are the ones they don’t know they have. There’s no shortage of tough problems that jump right in the faces of IT administrators, but some of the worst IT problems facing companies are the ones they don’t know they have. In this story, eWEEK Labs identifies 10 cost- and productivity-robbing problems that might be lurking in your infrastructure and offers IT admins guidance on how to over
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:49am CEST
I had the honor of closing O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference today, where I gave a talk on “Activist Mapping” and some history on our Ushahidi project in Kenya. A couple people have asked me to make the slides available, so I’ve embedded the presentation below. | View | Upload your own I’m not sure how useful those images are without the context of me speaking to them. Since I generally type out my notes, I’ve added those below after the “more” button. The notes are not verbatim what I sa
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