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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 2:34am CEST
I’m going to start titling these posts “of the moment” considering when I get busy it might be more than a week between posts. IGN has a Interactive GTA IV Map, powered by Google Maps. Seems fitting, as Liberty City is modeled after a real world city with great GIS/mapping coverage, New York.
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:46am CEST
With all the talk of virtual worlds, and Second Life in particular, its easy to forget that there is a real world out there that also beckons attention beyond our monitors. Actually, it would be nice to marry both the virtual and real worlds together, because then you can really get some interesting things happening. This has not been lost (forgive the geo-pun) on the founders of Geocaching.com who have recently released a software platform called WheriGo (pronounced Where-i-Go) that enables on
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Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:42am CEST
Nach langer Arbeit an meiner eigenen bzw. so gut wie eigenen Map, komme ich nun ich die letzten Züge. Einige Klassen/Tower müssen noch fertig gestellt werden, jedoch ist der Grundaufbau fertig. Weitere Infos folgen. MfG MajesNix
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 11:48pm CEST
Where 2.0 preview: Whrrl shows the way May 10th, 2008 We’ve covered Whrrl, and several of its competitors, already on Webware, but with the Where 2.0 conference coming up next week, I thought it’d be interesting to dive into this product just a bit more, since it represents some very interesting trends that are central to the creation of location-aware apps. Whrrl is a fascinating project. The idea is that it tracks where you go, through your mobile phone, and makes that information av
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 11:43pm CEST
Interested in viewing 3-D visualizations showing how climate change projections for the 2030s and 2050s will affect selected landscapes? Well, USAID, NASA, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, the University of Colorado and CATHALAC (Centro del Agua del Trópico Húmedo para América Latina y el Caribe) have just the thing for you. The development partners on May 2 announced the beta release of the Climate Mapper tool for SERVIR Viz, the Regional Visualization and Monitori
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 11:32pm CEST
The power of mind maps. Ever wondered how our mind segments thoughts in little pockets and somehow manages to form links and relationships with them in real time? Ever wondered how multi-dimensional relationships spark up and roll like a movie in our minds every time a thought is triggered. It’s amazing, and yet next to impossible to physically capture all of that information. Mind-mapping software options: Although its impossible to capture everything, people have tried to come up with so
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 10:43pm CEST
Mapping the Future: Un mapa hacia el futuro ¿Curioso de cómo serán los próximos cuatro años en la historia de la humanidad? Entra al mapa del futuro y entérate de como la ciencia, la política, las conferencias, los pronósticos y las fechas importantes se suman en un mapa interactivo, con posibles desenlaces en la historia de la humanidad, en los próximos cuatro años. El Mapa del Futuro de Global Strategy Institute Mapping the Future fue desarrollado en 2007 por el Global Strategy Institute, co
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 9:50pm CEST
Comparison shop on the fly with PriceAdvance May 9th, 2008 I love things that save me money when shopping online. While PriceGrabber and Google Shopping are my two go-to sites for finding the lowest prices on electronics, tons of sites track prices and give the heads-up when something goes on sale or gets its price reduced. There’s also PriceAdvance, a browser plug-in that will pull up competing prices from other online sellers automatically whenever you hit a page with a product and pric
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 9:42pm CEST
Facebook reported ready to lift 5,000-friends cap May 9th, 2008 If you’re among the fraction of Facebook users who have bumped up against the social-networking service’s 5,000-friends cap, breathe easy: you might well soon be able to climb into the upper reaches of four figures’ worth. That’s according to a Friday post on TechCrunch, where Michael Arrington reported that Facebook is getting ready to lift the limit. As Arrington wrote, there are only about 1,000 Facebook users–out of
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
Facebook to open the gates with ‘Facebook Connect’ May 9th, 2008 This post was updated at 1:56 PM. Social network Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the concept of data portability. The formal announcement was made through a post on Facebook’s developer blog by senior platform manager Dave Morin, wh
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 8:38pm CEST
Tetrix Systems Mobile Software Engineering Abgelegt unter: Hardware, Telekommunikation | RSS 2.0 | TB | Tags: Daten, GIS, Kommunikation, Standard, Web Mapping | Keine Kommentare Mit uns zuverlässig und effizient im mobilen Einsatz Wir sind ein zuverlässiger Software-Engineering-Dienstleister aus der Region Hannover. Unsere Mitarbeiter kommen aus den Forschungsbereichen der Physik und Informatik und besitzen langjährige Erfahrung mit Projekten aus Industrie, Wirtschaft und öffentlicher Verwa
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
The 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating GISSA 2008, gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software as well as managers and decision makers from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Focussed on the practical “make it work, get it done” w
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
Weblin can make any Web site social May 9th, 2008 Weblin is a service that allows people to have avatars that appear on the Web pages they visit and communicate with any other Weblin users who are visiting the same pages. (Credit: Weblin) If you’re a social media addict but think that visiting regular Web sites is a lonely experience, you might want to take a look at Weblin. Created by a German company, Weblin is designed to make the experience of surfing Web sites social–or make servi
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 7:39pm CEST
Report: Rumored Google, News Corp. bids make Blinkx shares soar May 9th, 2008 Reuters is reporting that shares of Blinkx, a publicly traded video search site based in the U.K., climbed 50 percent on Friday following rumors that corporate giants Google and News Corp. may be vying for an acquisition. On Friday morning, Blinkx shares were trading at 36.75 pence, their highest value since September. That puts the company’s valuation at 102 million pounds, which is equivalent to $199.2 million
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 7:30pm CEST
Your receipt is in the e-mail May 9th, 2008 Shoppers who want to save some trees soon will find a new option for rejecting receipts at the checkout counters of major retailers. A service that will enable consumers to receive digital receipts through big box stores, such as Best Buy and Target, is set to launch May 16. allEtronic is an add-in for digital cash registers running popular point of purchase applications. When it recognizes a customer as a sale is rung up, allEtronic blocks th
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 5:23pm CEST
Biomapping From Bio Mapping - Christian Nold (a graduate from our course) By recording our own body’s bio data along with our geographic location we can review the information and make meaningful decisions about our life. Furthermore those close to us both physically and socially may have a certain interest in how we interpret our environment. By allowing people to make active choices about how to share this intimate yet ambiguous data we not only create radically new social relations but
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 4:30pm CEST
Last.fm announces original video programming May 9th, 2008 Last.fm, the social music service that CBS Interactive acquired last year, is venturing into original content for the first time with a new video series called Last.fm Presents. The series consists of interviews with popular and rising bands and artists; among the first artists featured are techno legend Moby, rising alternative-pop singer Santogold, and popular indie band Spoon. Last.fm has also made a selection of live concert fo
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 4:24pm CEST
The Dutch like to live in new, modern homes with a garden front and back. This leaves the country with many a suburban jungle like the one depicted below. This also means steady jobs for surveyors with the commercial mapping companies – and many a free weekend spent mapping for a Dutch OpenStreetMap contributor. So, although the Netherlands got a huge boost in OpenStreetMap when AND donated its dataset for the Netherlands to the community last year, we need to continue our efforts to keep t
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 4:17pm CEST
Loopt is a mobile social mapping tool. It uses GPS on mobile phones and devices to track friends and displays their locations visually on a map or in a list. You can request for alerts when your friends are within a certain distance, send messages to friends in a particular area and also share geo -tagged information and photos with your network. Right now the service is available on Sprint and Boost, and more service providers should be added soon. It costs $2.99 a month after a 30 day free tr
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 3:54pm CEST
I have been doing a fair amount of EDI mapping on my latest gig, and I wanted to share a neat trick I figured out for mapping 856 Advanced Shipping Notice transactions. What makes an 856 special is that all of the action takes place in one looping segment that contains a number of child segments. The fun part is that you need to use a different subset of those child segments in each loop iteration. For example, the first iteration you need to map data to the PRF, DTM and N1 segments. The second
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 3:37pm CEST
The recent Myanmar disaster proves that visualizing data has found a new important place in mapping capabilities, links to data and pictures from Frank at Google Earth blog. All Points Blog points to CNN as an example of why static data just doesn’t cut it, especially when it comes to demographic information and election coverage. Sue at Very Spatial shows us IBM’s latest project called Many Eyes. Many Eyes is a set of visualization tools and web services that allow users to create and shar
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 3:21pm CEST
david einhorn David Einhorn, Cheryl Strauss, and the “Unavailable” Bethany McLean22 Apr 2008 As will be explored in a subsequent piece, it would be fair to describe my relationship with Bethany McLean of Fortune as %26quot;strained%26quot;. However, it is not unusual for her to write or call me seeking comment, generally regarding …Deep Capture -
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 3:18pm CEST
Please refer to the user manual of PDA to enable the Bluetooth. connectivity. If the connection between your device and iBT-GPS is …BT-GPS Bluetooth GPS Data Logger User’s Manual Published on 15-Jan-2007 Rev 1.1 8029407701A2 (more…)
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 3:16pm CEST
To provide the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) information governing the operation standards used by Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). These standards are the policies and guidelines set forth by TxDOT regarding Global Positioning Systems processes and procedures. (more…)
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 2:53pm CEST
Google waves sayonara to Hello May 9th, 2008 Later, gator. Google has announced the shutdown of Hello, a sort of photo-messaging service that became part of the Mountain View family when Google acquired Picasa in 2004. “All good things come to an end,” a placeholder on the Hello.com home page says. “So it is with sadness that we say goodbye to Hello.” Guess they weren’t so sad that they felt the need to steer clear of goofy plays on words. Hello will fade away on May 15, though Google’s
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 1:50pm CEST
Where to start? Well, the other week I happened to remember an article I heard about on the news about someone who wrote all of his thoughts down and organised them into maps and categories - like tracing all the paths in your head in order to make it easier to recall events and make decisions. One quick google search for “Write every thought” turned up results to Mr Lion Kimbro’s website:
[www.speakeasy.org] Wherein I downloaded a book he’d written, which he has made available
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 6:16am CEST
Open source, open standards, open data - we’re using them all with the National Broadband Map. This isn’t out of an idealogical view point, it’s just that these tools are helping us achieve what we want to. Open Data The openness of the data is one area that we have already had an interest in for demand aggregation and other purposes. We are visualising the data using Google maps but this isn’t the only way the data can be used. We have a database API (application programming interface) which
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 2:59am CEST
Webjam offers Apple-like simplicity for site building May 9th, 2008 Earlier today I had a great demo with Webjam, a do-it-all publishing service that launched at the Le Web conference in late 2006. In many ways it was ahead of its time with a platform that lets you create your own social network, blog, online shop, or iGoogle alternative. Like Ning (which picked up $60 million in funding last month), it lets users build pages out of various components without needing to know any coding. Th
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 12:59am CEST
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Posted: May 9th, 2008, 12:45am CEST
Schmidt hints at coming YouTube ads May 9th, 2008 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–YouTube users soon will see some new advertisements around their online videos. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company is working on new ads for the video site in a meeting here with reporters before Google’s shareholder meeting, but he was cagey with details. Google CEO Eric Schmidt (Credit: Elinor Mills/CNET News.com) “We have new ad products that are not pre-roll and post-roll,” he said, referr
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:54pm CEST
I’ve been recently invited by a student organization in Bucharest to give a presentation about online project management, starting from idea to the final result. I gave the presentation today and because handling such a delicate subject is not a sequential operation, I didn’t use a PowerPoint template. Instead, I’ve made a mind map, in which I tried to explain what I know from my 10 years experience in the online field. Basically, I guess every project must answer to only 5 simple questions:
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:50pm CEST
…well, thanks to technology, you may never have to. Thanks to MapJack, you can take a virtual visual stroll — with hardly any chance of getting assaulted! Check out MapJack – mapping technology, that I think is better than Google Maps. Navigation is very intuitive, and the split screen is a great feature too.
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 9:41pm CEST
Portable Gps Mapping Systems Posted on May 9, 2008 We all know that the GPS nowadays is a must to ensure one’s safety. Not only can you determine your exact location when you’re lost but you can also locate other people as well. This may be the reason why many people have portable GPS mapping systems. Originally, the GPS was used only by authorized personnel of the US but now civilians are already enjoying the benefits of having a portable mapping system anywhere they go. GPS systems are wi
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 9:27pm CEST
Stunning panoramics made easy with MagToo May 8th, 2008 MagToo is a service for creating really simple slide shows and interactive panoramic photos you can share on your blog or social-networking profile or by e-mail. To help put what you share into context, MagToo also throws in geotagging, letting you stamp any of the content you’ve added with a specific place where it was taken. Other users can then browse through the items on a large world map like they would photos and videos on Flickr
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 8:26pm CEST
Umibot’s been overclocking the past few weeks, and for good reason. Today Urban Mapping passed a new milestone and is thrilled to announce boundary data for more than 40,000 neighborhoods in the US. In addition, UMI continues to increase coverage across Canada and European countries, bringing our global coverage to more than 50,000 neighborhoods across 2,000+ cities and 15+ countries. Users of our enterprise and web services delivery can tap into this collective pool of rich local knowledge.
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:48pm CEST
Yahoo tests revamped search with ‘Glue Pages’ May 8th, 2008 Update 11:45 p.m.: I updated with new detail from Yahoo, further information from the site, and some analysis. Yahoo Glue Pages build a mini-portal around search results. It's in testing in India. (Credit: Yahoo) Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a major new way to present search results that caters to its strength as an Internet portal. Glue Pages, which the company began offering in beta form to Yahoo search users
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:37pm CEST
Aviary’s creative suite is more than a pretty Flash app [video & invites] May 8th, 2008 I finally got a chance to catch up with Avi Muchnick, the CEO of Flash software maker Aviary and of the art contest site it spun out of, Worth1000 (a Webware 100 winner). Aviary is the ambitious project to create a full suite of online apps for creative professionals. The first app, the image editor Phoenix, is now in private beta (read to end to get an early invitation). The second app, a pattern
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:37pm CEST
Aviary’s creative suite is more than a pretty Flash app May 8th, 2008 I finally got a chance to catch up with Avi Muchnick, the CEO of Flash software maker Aviary and of the art contest site it spun out of, Worth1000 (a Webware 100 winner). Aviary is an ambitious project to create a full suite of online applications for creative professionals. The first application, the image editor Phoenix, is now in private beta (read to the end of this post to get an early invitation). The second,
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:14pm CEST
Google’s Street View cameras were allegedly sabotaged in our little town of Fairabanks, AK recently. While it is unclear the actual circumstances surrounding the incident, it is hysterical to think there is some group of clandestine Alaskans running around thwarting Google’s attempts to image the area. Here’s a direct link to a Google map featuring a plastic bag. [Spotted on BoingBoing]
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:04pm CEST
MySpace announces ‘Data Availability’ project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter May 8th, 2008 This post was updated at 10:34 AM PT. The News Corp.-owned social-networking site MySpace has announced a new initiative called Data Availability, a way for members to share profile data with other social and community sites across the Web. Co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe, chief operating officer Amit Kapur, and vice president of technology Jim Benedetto announced the new development in a pr
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:46pm CEST
Mapping the Aftermath in Myanmar imagery, public health No Comments » The New York Times has an excellent interactive map that displays the impact of Cyclone Nargis. The before and after satellite shots without cloud cover provide a great tool to assess the impact. It’s easy to jump back and forth between these views, and there are a few areas of greater detail that place before and after images side by side. There’s also an interesting satellite shot that you can scroll over to see before and
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:18pm CEST
It’s the best of all possible worlds! Now you can brainstorm in XMind and import directly into OmniFocus via Udo Gaetke’s clever AppleScript. The script creates a project from your map’s root node and actions (or subactions) from the other nodes. Thus, this: Becomes this: Via Skitch Get the script here (forums.omnigroup.com) Notes: - Although XMind isn’t scriptable, the XML file format is open; his script digs into the XML structure to pull relevant data - The script contains a property c
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:54pm CEST
After long negotiations, Facebook agrees to safety plan with state AGs May 8th, 2008 This post was updated at 11:02 AM PT with comment from MySpace. Facebook on Thursday reached a user safety agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia, much as rival MySpace.com did several months ago. “We’ve agreed with 49 states and the District of Columbia to set up principles around Internet safety,” Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly explained in an intervie
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:47pm CEST
TinEye: Search the Web with images instead of words May 8th, 2008 Traditionally, Web search has relied on words or queries to scan massive indexes of pages for results. Searching for images can be a little trickier though. You’re often relying on the competence of whoever uploaded the shot to provide the proper file name–and in a very small percentage of cases extra hints in the metadata to help the search tool get its hooks in. In the real world, this isn’t always the case, which is why
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:37pm CEST
Today’s vacation product ideas are all about helping you find your way while on vacation. While they may seem a bit obvious at first, I’ll delve a little deeper into the reasons that each of the products should be mainstays for travelers. Keep in mind that these products are intended more for road trip vacations than other types. Computer mapping software. Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft all have great online mapping services, but there are times when dedicated software provides features tha
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:28pm CEST
The Microsoft Virtual Earth API lets you add your own tile layer to your VE Map. My colleague StevenO wrote about preparing a suitable TileCache setup. This used to work in both 2D and 3D map modes. Recently, Microsoft introduced the latest version of the API, 6.1, along with a major data upgrade and a new version of the 3D control. A step forward in many respects, but the tile layers will not show up in 3D mode anymore. Let’s investigate. UPDATED 080508 11pm, see below Let me start out by
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:11pm CEST
From the Southeast Wathershed Forum Newsletter This month the Southeast Watershed Forum launches a new and valuable resource for land and water protection. The Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, on-line mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into their land use planning efforts. Visitors to the site can create maps at a county, watershed or state level, that compare impaired streams, impervious surface, protected lands, wetlan
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:05pm CEST
Monitor costumer’s job progress to map their making-decision job Lance A. Bettencourt and Anthony W. Ulwick have developed a method called “job mapping,” which breaks down the task the customer wants done into a series of discrete process steps. Authors think that this efficient yet simple method could help companies find new ways to innovate. Authors argue that by deconstructing a job from beginning to end, a company gains a complete view of all the points at which a customer might desire mor
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:40pm CEST
We all have our own private map of those places that played a part in the development of our sexuality when we were growing up. But not all of us have made those maps as public as our pal Igor at Driven By Boredom has with a new project where he plots "the spots that gave me the most tingles" on a Google Map along with a Polaroid and a description of what made them so ... er, tingle-worthy: the construction house where he and his girlfriend would sneak into to mess around, the bushes at the Mas
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 2:09pm CEST
以前ウェブマガジンUKアダプタで特集したヨーロッパの映像集団「Anti VJ」が、先日Genevaで開催された"the Mapping Festival 2008"にてインスターレーション・スプラプチャーを展示しました。
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:54pm CEST
「NEOPROJ」による新しいビデオ・マッピングのインスタレーション映像。部屋の壁に映像投影して、置いてある家具をマッピングする事で壁とは違う映像を映しています。 NEOPROJ過去のプロジェクト「Visual x Architecture」
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:49pm CEST
Semantik is a mindmapping-like tool for document generation. It helps students to write reports and thesis. KDE4 and Python >= 2.3 libraries are required. Semantik (previously Kdissert) is a mindmapping-like tool to help students to produce complicated documents very quickly and efficiently : presentations, dissertations, thesis, reports. While targetted mostly at students, Kdissert can also help teachers, decision maker, engineers and businessmen. Semantik is also available exclusively for
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:39pm CEST
Life Mapping: A Vision of Success Thursday 8 May 2008 @ 6:39 pm 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-yea
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:19pm CEST
Filed under: RobotsWe're a little ambivalent about robots performing surgery autonomously and unattended, but there are clearly cases where it'd be beneficial, and it seems like an inevitable future. Duke researchers working on robo-doc lab feasibility studies announced this week a proof of concept using 3D ultrasound mapping to enable machines to "see" what they're doing. The first test procedures have focused on use of those ultrasound transducers in catheter-based procedures using fluoroscop
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 11:51am CEST
Mapping a boolean field to char in nhibernate When you work with legacy database is not infrequent that boolean value are mapped to char(1) field in databse, with Y/N or 0/1 or some other chars. In the literature there are a lot of solution, you can find for example a discussion here. When you use a user type to handle this kind of situation when you build HQL query you cannot use true or false in condition, for example Select o from Orders where o.IsProcessed = false This usually lead to
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:44am CEST
Introducing the first local video player solution featuring Call Tracking, Click-to-Call, Save and Share features with local mapping and subtitling. Barcelona, Spain—May 8, 2008—Today at the EADP Conference on Managing Directories in Barcelona, Spain, AgendiZe, the premier provider of call-to-action services, and Videoagency, the next generation video production company, announce their partnership to introduce the first local video player solution (LVPS) for small businesses. Now SMBs can pres
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 7:31am CEST
In late March, Google announced enhancements to their mapping API that gave developers programmatic access to their popular streetview feature. Streetview allows users to “virtually explore city neighborhoods by viewing and navigating within 360-degree scenes of street-level imagery.” The API enhancements provide the ability to embed panoramas in an app and to even pan them dynamically using JavaScript. Since that release, developers have had a chance to create some very interesting mashups u
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:36am CEST
How Tag Clouds Work (indiemaps.com) May 7th, 2008 Zach Johnson has a good post about how Tag Clouds work from a cartographic perspective on his indiemaps.com blog. While we have been trained to scale objects based on their area, he concludes tag clouds might be best scaled by size (height) alone. I have done some Illustrator scipting that take into account the ink area and the raw results are unsatisfactory and must be scaled again by the width of the tag character count to still make visual
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:25am CEST
Star charts on iPhone May 7th, 2008 I don’t have one of those shiny new devices (twiddling my thumbs till June refresh) but one of my hiking buddies put me onto this site which shows star charts optimized for iPhones and other web-enabled “smart” phones from space.com (visit site). Wait for the ad to timeout and then you’ll get a similar image as below. Here’s the night sky outside Washington DC tonight: Posted in Interactive, Mapping, Promote, science | No Comments »
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:16am CEST
Flying With a Chemical Compass? (Washington Post) May 7th, 2008 Ed note: I’m partial to this topic having researched bird migration while working at National Geographic producing the Americas side of the Bird Migration map supplement (wall poster), see that here. Scientists have synthesized a molecule that responds to a magnetic field like Earth’s. Similar compounds might exist in the nervous systems of birds and help them orient during migratory flight. Props to my colleague Patterson for
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:56am CEST
Thursday’s profit tip for authors Early this week, I attended a teleseminar interview involving Michael Port and Stephanie Diamond, two members of Published & Profitable’s Editorial Board. Michael was interviewing Stephanie on the occasion of her new book, Web Marketing for Small Businesses: 7 Steps to Explosive Business Growth. One of the best parts of the call occurred when Michael and Stephanie were discussing her days at AOL, where she was Marketing Director. Michael discussed the ch
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:37am CEST
(Alternate title for this post: When dorks and maps collide.) Below you will find what is probably the second-best map ever made. Harnessing the latest, most advanced computer simulation techniques and mapping technology, it realistically illustrates what an airstrike on the headquarters of a certain Florida newspaper would look like. What prompted me to create this chilling vision, you ask? Meet me below this picture and I’ll show you. Behold this outrageous provocation from a certain “news
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:37am CEST
FEATURES * Portable, in-car mapping GPS * Color 3.5″ touch-screen QVGA LCD * Turn-by-turn voice prompts * MP3 audio player * Photo display model * 1.5GB SD card included * Sleek, compact design * Rechargeable U-Ion battery * SIRF GPS Chipset * AC charger, car charger and case included * Dimensions: 76 (H) x 143 [...]
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:02am CEST
AdReady Becomes a Google AdWords Authorized Reseller Biloxi Sun Herald, USA - 18 hours ago AdWords is a cost-effective, efficient platform designed to help businesses of all sizes advertise their products and services at exactly the … Go to the author’s original blog: AdReady Becomes a Google AdWords Authorized Reseller - Biloxi Sun …
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 2:46am CEST
Plastic bag conquers Google Street View May 8th, 2008 Privacy advocates should take note of an effective way to avert the prying eyes of Google Street View: the lowly plastic bag. Google Street View foiled by a plastic bag. (Credit: Google) A block of College Road in Fairbanks, Alaska, along with portions of Minnie St. and Third St. show what a driver would see only if wearing a plastic bag on his or her head. As Google Sightseeing observes, you can tell what it is by the fact that
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:32am CEST
Frengo makes social networks leaky May 8th, 2008 Mobile app maker Frengo is now making apps for popular social networks (Facebook, Hi5, etc.) that allow connections between networks. The Flirtable app, for example, allows users on one social network to flirt with users on another. The Lolz app, likewise, lets users share LOLcat images (sadly, not very funny ones) across networks. Frengo is using OpenSocial as a standard for building the apps, but OpenSocial doesn’t address friend porta
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 12:36am CEST
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 11:58pm CEST
Phone numbers give way to social networking profiles with RmbrMe May 8th, 2008 Entrepreneurs of all types have attempted to kill off the phone number in place of something simpler. We’ve seen tokens, special re-routing numbers, and even services that offer a number you can give someone that tells them you’re not interested. A new service called RmbrMe is of a different breed, choosing to use shortcode messaging to let you give out access to any or all of your social networking profiles with
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 11:58pm CEST
Phone numbers give way to social-networking profiles with RmbrMe May 8th, 2008 Entrepreneurs of all types have attempted to kill off the phone number in place of something simpler. We’ve seen tokens, special re-routing numbers, and even services that offer a number you can give someone that tells them you’re not interested. A new service called RmbrMe is of a different breed, choosing to use short-code messaging to let you give out access to any or all of your social-networking profiles
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 11:21pm CEST
Spammy Twitter accounts to get the virtual guillotine May 8th, 2008 There are very few rules on microblogging platform Twitter. But if you use it for unsolicited “tweets” about male enhancement products, watch out: Twitter has started to shut down accounts that it has flagged as “spam,” reported blogger Jesse Stay. Twitter employees confirmed the new tactic in their developer forum. “We’ve been considering this issue here at Twitter HQ, and we’re planning on simply removing the accounts of
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 10:05pm CEST
The New York-based company hopes that developers will use its opened-up code to install new apps on location-aware devices like iPhones and GPS navigators.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 10:05pm CEST
Mapping start-up Socialight opens API May 7th, 2008 For something so focused on navigation and geography, it’s a bit ironic that location-based social networks have to work their way through such a jungle: carrier partnerships, handset compatibility, creepy privacy concerns, and what-have-you. But one small New York start-up, Socialight, says it’s found a route: developers, developers, developers. Socialight, which focuses on user-created city maps and whose founders insist that location-b
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:15pm CEST
AdReady Becomes a Google AdWords Authorized Reseller dBusinessNews Seattle (press release), WA - 1 hour ago AdWords is a cost-effective, efficient platform designed to help businesses of all sizes advertise their products and services … Go to the author’s original blog: AdReady Becomes a Google AdWords Authorized Reseller …
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 8:56pm CEST
Enjoy this archive of our progress so far… To inherit the visual traditions of my ancestors and make them part of my consciousness my real self is in here someplace. That makes it awfully scary to unveil. Flirts with being seen as human. Hmmmm. Alright. The knights who say “Ni” made me do it. To get past the tree of self revelation.
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:25pm CEST
Customer service via Twitter works for unpopular people too May 7th, 2008 Yesterday I was in Internet purgatory. Today I’m back in the land of the living. The occasion? Cable installation–an activity on par with going to get fillings at the dentist. It’s time consuming, and often a learning experience about the quirks of wherever you’re living. When my wonderful technician was done, I had play-off basketball and what I thought was a working pipe into the Web. However, I learned soon after
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:14pm CEST
New Answer by Labnuke99
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 6:41pm CEST
I love Goog 411. And I’ve lately been feeling like I “get” social networking, even though I struggle to incorporate it into daily life. I mean, if it’s a time crunch requiring a choice between exercising and Twittering or LinkedIn, I have to choose exercise. Now, just as I think I have a handle on enough web-based technologies so as to feel current, I have heard about some new ones that I don’t grasp! I want to fit them neatly into some sort of mental genre folder. Help! The scoop on Loopt. L
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 6:26pm CEST
Microsoft: Saving face by buying Facebook? May 7th, 2008 Microsoft, we get it: That Yahoo thing fell through, and picking up the pieces can be messy. But according to Kara Swisher at All Things D, Redmond just won’t give up. The company has reportedly put together a Plan B that it refers to as “Project Granola,” a name that makes “Zune” sound good. And part of “Project Granola,” Swisher wrote, is exploring the possibility of turning that $240 million stake in Facebook into an outright owne
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 5:08pm CEST
Study: Developer activity on Facebook’s platform is slowing May 7th, 2008 All gold rushes must come to an end, and according to one new report, Facebook’s developer platform is no exception. Facebook developer Jesse Farmer, creator of developer analytics service Adonomics, did an extensive amount of number-crunching after coming to an odd observation earlier this year: “Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community,” Farmer wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “Starting in March I began
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 5:01pm CEST
GPS Handheld Mapping Devices - What Is The Difference May 7th, 2008 So many companies that offered GPS handheld mapping devices are operated today. Some of them are just among those many outstanding GPS handheld mapping providers such as Magellan, Garmin, Lowrance, and much more. For those who are interested to acquire some knowledge about some of those GPS handheld mapping devices that are widely used by many nowadays, try to look at some of the information below about a couple sampl
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 4:56pm CEST
Ken Westrick on Energy-TV May 7th, 2008 Canada’s Energy-TV recently aired a feature on our REmapping the World initiative, starring Ken Westrick and some truly beautiful footage, especially of offshore wind turbines. (I really do think they’re lovely, in a Bauhaus sort of way.) You can learn more about REmapping the World here. Tags: Energy-TV, Ken Westrick, REmapping the World Posted in mapping, solar, wind
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 4:19pm CEST
I usually visit the website of those who leave comments in my postings. Recently, from a comment in the article Journal to the Self, I found Adam Sicinski’s Study Matrix Blog. What a wonderful surprise! The website has a wealth of amazing, beautifully-crafted mind maps about various topics relevant to personal development — such as accelerated learning, life success principles, cognitive psychology, memory enhancement, time management and many others. Mind Map Showcase Adam Sicinski
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 4:00pm CEST
Clarion have announced their latest GPS navigation systems, the MAP680 and MAP780. Using a full 4.3-inch wide-aspect touchscreen with anti-reflective coating, both units have an RDS-TMC tuner for traffic information and Bluetooth for handsfree cellphone use and A2DP music streaming. (more…) Post from: gadgettastic.com 3D GPS navigation system
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 3:14pm CEST
Earthmate GPS PN-20 DELORME User Manual An All-in-One Handheld GPS Solution from DeLorme, the Leading Digital Mapping and GPS Company Table of Contents Getting Started………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Basic Functions……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Scenarios……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11 The Satellites Page………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………20 The Map Page…………………………………………………………………………………
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 1:52pm CEST
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:14am CEST
We’ve been working with one of clients on marker performance. The problem with markers is they take a long time to load up especially when you add a lot of makers eg. over 100 markers. The performance gets worse when you add polygons or polylines to the map and as you add or remove layers to the map One of the problems is that the marker class is full of features - Info Windows, shadows, custom icons etc. The browser has to manage all of the DOM objects for the functionality. To improve the p
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