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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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