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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 11:44pm CEST
I attended the Spatial barcamp and GoVis conference last week and here are my thoughts. I thought the conference was great way for the industry to get together and network. It was nice to see some interesting talks from the speakers on how GIS was integrated into enterprise solutions Open source good, Open standards better The New Zealand Geospatial Office is promoting the use of open source tools (mapserver, mapguide etc) and open standards around government agencies. Its great to see mor
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 11:31pm CEST
BINS brings news of a new website for a 2007 project, The Birmingham Photographic Grid… “The Birmingham Photographic Grid […] is a systematic look at Birmingham within the Number 11 bus route [ the roughly circular ‘outer-circle’ route around the city ] . Rather than concentrate on the picturesque, the historic or the famous, we went out and photographed Birmingham systematically. Locations were shared-out between a team of ‘photographers’ (none of them are photographers) according to a grid i
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 11:12pm CEST
The browser for old people: BigScreenLive May 7th, 2008 It’s family day for me at Webware. After posting about the Gmail-as-baby-book tip, I got a pitch about BigScreenLive, a new online environment for older adults who are frustrated by the Web and e-mail. My default position on products targeted at the elder demographic is not charitable. I’ve seen too many services that are patronizing or exploitive (see “Presto puts digital photos in the hands of your grandma“). Old doesn’t mean du
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 11:04pm CEST
Many of our users ask if PersonalBrain is mind mapping software, file management software or something else… According to Mac|Life Magazine this month, PersonalBrain is the “most compelling computer adaptation of mind mapping encountered”. So I thought it only fitting to blog about: whether or not PersonalBrain is in fact “mind mapping software”, what exactly is PersonalBrain, and where does it fit into the array of desktop applications that you have running on your computer. Flexible
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 9:48pm CEST
Last weekend three US-based members of the Ushahidi project team were able to get together for two full days of planning for the upcoming Net2 conference. (Photo proof exhibited... Erik, David and Juliana) read more
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 9:20pm CEST
Report: Facebook wants Marc Andreessen on its board May 6th, 2008 Facebook has asked tech veteran Marc Andreessen to join its board of directors, according to Kara Swisher at All Things D. The deal isn’t finalized, apparently, but Andreessen has “verbally agreed” to the commitment. The Netscape founder is currently at the helm of his own social-networking site, Ning, which lets Web users create their own branded community sites without technical expertise. Because of its focus on niche com
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
Iterasi goes live with personal Web-archiving tool May 6th, 2008 Web bookmarking tool Iterasi just launched the first version of its Firefox extension to people who have signed up for the beta. The service, which I wrote about in January, lets you capture a Web site in its entirety, complete with links, formatting, and a time stamp to help sort it out later. The company was set to release the plug-in back in late February but has been busy for the past few months resolving some security is
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
Iterasi goes live with personal Web archiving tool May 6th, 2008 Web bookmarking tool Iterasi just launched the first version of its Firefox extension to people who have signed up for the beta. The service, which I wrote about in January lets you capture a Web site in its entirety, complete with links, formatting and a time stamp to help sort it out later. The company was set to release the plug-in back in late February but has been busy for the past few months resolving some security issu
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 7:36pm CEST
Got an email over the weekend from Tom Vanderbilt, who had seen the All Streets piece, and was kind enough to point me to this map (PDF) from the USGS that depicts the average distance to the nearest road across the continental 48 states. (He’s currently working on a book titled Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) to be released this Fall). And too bad I just learned the word conterminous, but had I used that in the original project description, we would have missed
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 7:25pm CEST
Geek parent tip: Use GMail as a baby book May 6th, 2008 Someday my son will hate me for this, but I just implemented a new way to record his daily achievements: A dedicated GMail account. I got the idea for this tip from John Girard, CEO of Clickability, who sends tagged emails to his Outlook account. Anything with his special code in the subject means it’s news about one of his kids, and he has filters to archive those notes into an offline file. But it’s so easy to set a new GMail ac
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 6:37pm CEST
Google Reader gets universal sharing and microblogging features May 6th, 2008 Google upgraded its Reader product yesterday with a handful of important new features that let people share content with anyone from any Web site. Previously its sharing features were confined to whatever RSS feeds you were subscribed to. As a solution to this problem, Google has created a small bookmarklet users can add to their browser’s toolbar to simply share whatever page they’re looking at to their shared
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 5:05pm CEST
New YouTube Video We've posted another Brain video on YouTube. If you missed our "Mind Mapping Your Passion" webinar, here's a snipit of Tracy's Movie Brain! What's your passion? Let's see it BRAIN mapped on YouTube! Matt Filed under Blog, Mind Mapping, Use Cases, Video Tips by mattcaton Share This! del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit BlinkList Bloglines blogmarks Facebook Google Ma.gnolia Newsvine Propeller Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Windows Live
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 4:51pm CEST
Wednesday, May 14th, 10am-noon at the Hershey Center for Applied Research, HCAR will launch its cutting-edge social networking/scientific mapping online community called KnowledgeMesh™. Simon Revell, Manager of Enterprise 2.0 Technology Development at Pfizer will be the keynote speaker for this exciting event. There is no cost to attend the event, but registration is required. Click here to register. What is KnowledgeMesh™? The online application is designed to advance R&D in the life sci
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 4:49pm CEST
Ich war letzten Sonntag wieder mal mit meiner Kamera auf der Pirsch und konnte in der Nähe von Oberwil eine interessante Location entdecken. Die Sägerei scheint schon länger stillgelegt zu sein. Ich gehe da auf jeden Fall nochmal hin ;) Die Bilder findet Ihr wie immer in meiner Galerie oder direkt hier: Bild1, Bild2, Bild3 und Bild4 Weitere werden noch folgen.
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 4:06pm CEST
China has launched an investigation into online mapping services by Internet giants including Google and Sohu in an effort to protect state secrets and territorial integrity, state press said. According to Min Yiren, vice head of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, authorities hope to get rid of online maps that wrongly depict China’s borders or that reveal military secrets, the People’s Daily said Monday. The government began the investigation into the problematic maps in April and w
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:35pm CEST
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 more help from a product or service – namely, at each step in the job
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:00pm CEST
Virtual Offices Go One Step Further May 6th, 2008 by Tara Carter Project Wonderland is an open-source toolkit for building virtual worlds. They have already improved telecommunications in business by building online replicas of offices or classrooms where individuals can use 3D representations of themselves to attend meetings, classes, etc.The toolkit comes with a prebuilt office environment, but developers who want to design their own world can download instructions on how to do so. Gree
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:58pm CEST
A billion-dollar valuation for LinkedIn? May 6th, 2008 On Monday, reports surfaced that business social network LinkedIn was likely looking to raise a round of venture capital (rather than find a corporate parent). Now, TechCrunch has reported that investment bank Allen & Co. is hoping to help LinkedIn pull in that funding at a $1 billion valuation. Spearheading the campaign is Dave Wehner, managing director of the Bay Area bank, who was reportedly a big part of Bebo’s $850 million sa
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:57pm CEST
I know where I am. My phone knows where it is. Why doesn’t the webpage know where I am? Think about these scenarios which will become more and more prominent as “the mobile web” starts to prevail: I visit a cinema website on my mobile. Rather than having to choose my cinema first, the website already knows which suburb I’m in so it defaults to the nearest cinema first. I need a taxi. I don’t know where I am, but my phone does. I want to be able to book a taxi and have the website discover m
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:32pm CEST
Our experiment with the Commons on Flickr continues and barring a few hours delay we have managed to keep to our promise of 50 new images a week. We’re up to 400 images now with the most recent 50 going live this morning. 158 of these have been geotagged. Some statistics: - we’ve been added as contacts [...]
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:08pm CEST
Google your way around the world! In our library, we have three dedicated computers that provide internet access. Yes, they are high speed and you can download anything you wish while you are using one. (We have a special program to get rid of everything downloaded at the end of the day so that the start fresh each morning.) Each computer has the basics….browsers, word programs and a printer. One thing we added this year was Google Earth. We found that a lot of people were asking about it a
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 9:16am CEST
at this time i playing around with this nice Google mashup MapFiedRss
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 8:50am CEST
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceansSeeded on Tue May 6, 2008 2:50 AM EDT (CNET News.com) We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean.technology, google, ocean, google-earth, mapping, oceanography, sea-life1
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 7:19am CEST
Filed under: Displays Hold on to your touch panels, folks, as Wacom has just made known its plans to reveal “a major innovation in capacitive touchscreen technology” at next month’s universal Society for info Display Exhibition. The tech, dubbed Reversing Ramped Field Capacitive (RRFC) touch, relies on “reversing ramped electro-static fields” to bring unprecedented precision and “drift-free performance” to touchscreen users. Reportedly, it can be integrated into dual-input applications with
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 6:47am CEST
New release of whereyougonnabe Well, we've been busy in the three weeks since we released our first beta of whereyougonnabe, and today we put out some significant improvements, including support for the Safari web browser, email notification when we find close interactions with your friends, a cool Facebook profile widget, the ability to easily re-use previous locations, and a number of other usability improvements and bug fixes. This is what the new profile widget looks like: A major foc
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 4:00am CEST
After just spending a chunk of time tonight reading article after article on his site, I have to give my kudos to Bjørn Sandvik, and his blog, Thematic Mapping - There's just a ton of eminently cool and accessible stuff for visualization there... Surveying, Mapping and GIS Blog - Synergist Technology Group, Inc. - a SDVOSB specializing in Geospatial Applications, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Environmental Science
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:54am CEST
GPS (Global Positioning Systems) first were used by the Army, then by law enforcement to track criminals out on parole or under house arrest. Some see GPS locators as a way of being spied on, but many others see potential good in GPS locator devices, especially in the cases of finding lost or missing children. [...]
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:42am CEST
price: US $16.65 Product Details Paperback: 232 pages Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company (August 2002) Language: English Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces Navigation Relocating a favorite hunting, camping or fishing spot Aviation navigation Nautical navigation Automobile navigation Wilderness navigation Finding lost treasure, artifacts and archeological sites Mapping Street-level mapping and directions Mapping to tourist attractions, restaurants, fuel and l
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:21am CEST
Nov 20 2007 Liverpool Echo A CAMPAIGN to capture Liverpool’s identity has been launched for 2008. The Liverpool Map project is aiming to define the city’s boundaries geographically, historically and culturally. It will show where the people of Merseyside think Liverpool’s borders are and it will also highlight Liverpool’s local, national and global influences. The final outcome will be an artistic representation of the Liverpool Map, which will be donated to Museum of Liverpool. more
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:30am CEST
LH reader kattullus sent me a link to this post at strange maps: it reproduces an amazing 18th-century map by Gottfried Hensel (the post says 1730, but other sources say 1741) that shows Europe divided into linguistic areas, with the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer in each. It doesn’t reflect the situation at any one period, but in general it’s antiquarian (England is shown with Anglo-Saxon and the south of Spain with Arabic); “Russica” is actually a variant of the Church Slavic version (whic
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:37am CEST
Crazy. Transport for London is introducing a new wayfinding scheme for London, and they are exhibiting it first… They had a physical exhibit which is over, but remains online. And the Legible London Yellow Book is pretty amazing. From the website: The first half is an overview in the form of an essay outlining the background, research and development work that has culminated in the Legible London prototype wayfinding system for the West End. The second half is a visual summation that shows
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:25am CEST
Playing games with news: MSNBC NewsWare May 6th, 2008 If you like your news straight up, just the facts, gray lady style, skip this story. MSNBC is launching some new toys for its news service that let you scan headlines in creative (and goofy) ways, and even play games with them. They’re all part of the MSNBC NewsWare service. Spectra is the service’s new headline viewer. You select the categories you want to see, and it throws them up in an orbiting view for you. Each category has a
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:00am CEST
Ben Clarke the exploration manager for a small oil and gas exploration company in Norway called Excel Expro. It's a start-up company, just over a year old, and they’ve had to build their strategy from scratch. I met Ben as a result of his desire to receive a copy of Bill Miller's idea map titled "Productivity Central" featured April 16, 2008. This is Ben's first contribution to the blog and I'll let him tell his story in his own words. "MindManager has been really useful, to first brainstorm,
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 12:28am CEST
Pwn your in-box: Tips from a Microsoft insider May 6th, 2008 A few weeks back at the Web 2.0 Expo, I got to catch up with Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft’s Live Mesh (review), and formerly of Office Live Meeting and BizTalk who told me some of the ways he deals with the hundreds of e-mails he gets every day. His solution deals with Outlook specifically, but the same techniques could be used to manage an in-box in Thunderbird, Apple Mail, or even Gmail with good use of its labels an
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