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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 price
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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 -
[www.deepcapture.com|||David] Einhorn [...] Tags: Assets Under Management, Bethany Mclean, David Einhorn, Government Complicity, Greenlight Capi
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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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