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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 9:35pm CEST
Welcome to the social mess? May 12th, 2008 Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, OpenID, DataPortability: Managing a bunch of different log-ins and passwords suddenly seems easy and straightforward. Within a matter of days, some of the biggest names on the Web announced new projects that all have a roughly similar aim of making it possible for Web users to have a single social-media identity across the Internet–”data portability,” as the general term has come
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 9:26pm CEST
I am not soothed by online forgiveness ritual May 12th, 2008 A timely pitch just came my way from The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness, a program by the Fetzer Institute that promises a non-religious, non-political ritual for letting go of the hurt someone has inflicted upon you (or you on someone else). All better now. It was timely because some product guy just Twittered me a pitch and said he’d follow up by sending the details to my TechCrunch account. Nothing makes my blood boil
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 9:00pm CEST
Modifying step in customers’ job mapping 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
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 8:51pm CEST
As I was putting together my talk on “Activist Mapping” for Where 2.0, I realized that I was getting a little to fragmented in message. One of the areas I’m probably not going to have time to cover is what I consider the consumer-accessibility of mapping tools, so here it is. Is There Something to be Learned from the Blogging Evolution? In my last blog post I showed a slide talking about the timeline of major blogging engines. I did this because I was exploring a premise that there might be s
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 8:31pm CEST
The Apple Store India was relaunched some time back but fairly recently, possibly even today, Apple has dropped the prices on almost all products in India. The top of the line iMac offered by Apple in India (not the new 3.06 GHz one but the older 2.8GHz 24″) has been reduced from [...]
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:29pm CEST
Google Friend Connect conference call liveblog May 12th, 2008 Google just concluded a press conference call regarding its new social widget strategy, Google Friend Connect (see “Google brings Friend Connect to the masses“). I was on the call and liveblogged it. See window below. Caroline McCarthy is working on a follow-up post looking at where Friend Connect fits in an increasingly crowded market of social aggretation plays. See also: Facebook to open the gates with ‘Facebook Con
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:29pm CEST
Google Friend Connect conference call live blog May 12th, 2008 Google just concluded a press conference call regarding its new social widget strategy, Google Friend Connect (see “Google brings Friend Connect to the masses“). I was on the call and live-blogged it. See the live blog in the window below. Caroline McCarthy is working on a follow-up post looking at where Friend Connect fits in an increasingly crowded market of social aggregation plays. See also: Facebook to open the gate
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:21pm CEST
Google extends online-video lead May 12th, 2008 Google was the dominant site to watch videos in the United States in March. (Credit: ComScore) People in the United States watched about 11.5 billion videos online in March, and Google extended its dominance in the area, according to new figures released Monday. Google’s sites served up 38 percent of the total videos watched, and YouTube accounted for 98 percent of Google’s tally, ComScore said. Google gained 2.6 percentage points of mar
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:14pm CEST
Mikel Maron is up after the coffee break to talk about Illuminated Hacks. However, my battery reckons it has 14 minutes of life left and I appear to be sitting far away from any potential power supply... damn and oops. ...We're back with power. An interesting talk from Mikel on a number of different hacks involving maps, location data and content. On of these was the BBC Bangladesh River Journey - something that was particularly close to home for me (the BBC that is, not Bangladesh). The
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 6:32pm CEST
Re-create the thrill of in-box spam with FwdItOn May 12th, 2008 Got a friend or family member who just loves to send you chain e-mails? The kind that have been forwarded a hundred times over and have so many indents and signatures on them that the original sender probably sent it off years ago? If you secretly enjoy these, but want to find a place where others have compiled their own in-box gems, check out FwdItOn, a simple service that lets you share images, videos, and text e-mails with
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 5:56pm CEST
U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior News Release May 12, 2008 Jessica Robertson 703-648-6624 jrobertson@usgs.gov USGS Office of Communications Science Picks — Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds May 2008 Edition For Release: UPON RECEIPT In this edition of Science Picks, find out how much technically recoverable oil was recently assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation, discover new data that will help Afghanistan’s reconstruction efforts, and view new maps that
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 5:41pm CEST
Monday morning and I'm signed up for a session called Geo-ify your web site. What does this mean? Good question. Some interesting stuff from Andrew Turner about microformats and embedding location tagging within the html of web content. Then onto Mapstraction and its use in providing efficient and effective access to a variety of mapping providers, rather than being tied into the restrictions of one service. Lots of very interesting library calls to provide functionality around image overl
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 4:53pm CEST
Google offers YouTube video software for Macs May 12th, 2008 Google's Vidnik lets users take videos, trim them, and upload them to YouTube. (Credit: Google) Google has released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a Webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube. The software also can be used to upload other videos to the company’s video-sharing site, and other editing software can be used on the videos
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 4:52pm CEST
New Job, Same Desk May 12th, 2008 Starting last week, I officially turned my day-job attention to online web graphics instead of the previous focus on print maps and graphics (only done a few thousand of those!). I am still working for The Washington Post’s NewsArt department but will now be collaborating with my colleagues over at WPNI.com to produce interactive graphics from inside the Washington Post newsroom in downtown Washington DC. Alberto Cairo has some interesting things to
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 4:01pm CEST
The initial version of the Costa Rica map is now up and running, here:
[www.ecomapcostarica.com] If you are using a small computer screen, you may need to scroll the page down to see three "Zoom To" buttons and some notes. Select the visible layers by using the "+" button on the upper right of the map. The actual map display that you are seeing is being rendered by OpenLayers, running as a Javascript client. The base layer (outline), ASTER satellite image, and 's
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:58pm CEST
Follow the Rainbow: 101 Color Resources for Web Designers May 12th, 2008 Jimmy Atkinson, editor of WHDb (Web Hosting Database) shared a new post with me last week. It’s titled “Follow the Rainbow: 101 Color Resources for Web Designers“. Of course Color Oracle is listed under the Color Blindness section (Reprinted from Jimmy’s post) Do you freak out if someone asks you to match print colors to Web colors? Or, maybe you just can’t decide whether the orange would work better with the blue o
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:48pm CEST
ESRI to also support Flash interface May 12th, 2008 Why are mashups via ESRI important? It will allow cartographers to create custom maps with our own look-and-feel, with thematic data, and still be fully enabled with the “mashup” web 2.0 mentality using APIs similar to those from Google and Yahoo. The earlier post mentions a REST javascript API for interfacing with the Arc Server to create mashups. That’s true in the first release, but a followup release will allow Flash / Flex integration
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:43pm CEST
While everyone else is off to Where, et cetera - I'm going off to the EPA GIS Workgroup meeting in New York City... Always great to see what's going on in terms of GIS and remote sensing for visualization, modeling and analysis in the realm of environmental protection - usually most EPA regions and program offices are represented, along with other organizations and agencies... Lots of geo friends in attendance. Looking forward to it.Surveying, Mapping and GIS Blog - Synergist Technology Group,
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:38pm CEST
Here is a handy little mapping trick I happened to stumble over. In BizTalk 2006 and later, if you are using a map from within an orchestration you can use multiple input schemata and map them to a single output schema. For example, you can combine a source XML file with the results from a web service call and map them into a single destination schema. To accomplish this, you will need to define a message for each schema inside of the orchestration. From there, double click on a transform shap
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:37pm CEST
Newsflash! ESRI to best Google Maps with Mashup Capability May 12th, 2008 (Reprinted from flex888.com. View original post.) Finally, GeoWeb is Complete and Born Posted by Moxie | March 19, 2008 . What’s is the best RIA application ever created? If your answer is something aroundFlex or Flash, then it’ll be wrong answer. The right answer is Google Map. It’s Google Map makes AJAX known and RIA a reality. Google even goes above and beyond claimed the term “GeoWeb“. However, up till now,
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:28pm CEST
Info Design Patterns May 12th, 2008 (Thanks Peter! Description via eismann-sf.com) Christian Behrens, a Berlin native, created this website of information design patterns for his masters thesis at Postdam University of Applied Science. The website is a web-representation of content he has formatted into book form, and judging from the screenshots on his site of the book he’s rocking the design of the printed matter. Christian’s website has a Flash based interface akin to Color Brewer
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:11pm CEST
Take Control of Your Maps (A List Apart) May 12th, 2008 (Reprinted from A List Apart. Thanks Peter! Paul Smith is is a co-founder and developer at EveryBlock, see this blog post. He has been creating sites and applications on the Web since 1994. He’s also co-creator of the Election Day Advent Calendar, and a founding member of Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.) by PAUL SMITH We live in the era of Google Maps. What started off as an impressive refresh of
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:09pm CEST
MapMyRide.com seems to drastically reduce the number of trackpoints in a track. bikely.com retains them all. 3165 waypoint gpx file uploaded to mapmyride.com 3165 waypoint gpx file uploaded to bikely.com I can’t see how many trackpoints have been saved in MapMyRide, but zoom in on Gouda to see the difference.
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:01pm CEST
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses May 12th, 2008 As expected, Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming. David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect, whose site is inaccessible Monday morning, as plumbing for the rest of the Web. “The Web is getting better by getting more social. We’ve baked social features into the infrastructure of the Web, and it is not tied to any particular
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 2:14pm CEST
Community Handbook (Washington Post) May 12th, 2008 Here’s a glorified image-map in Flash that has color hinting when over the map’s clickable areas. The map was custom built for this project by Laris Karklis, cool little package. Click-thru links don’t work in this local copy; interact with the original page. Posted in Design, Flash, Interactive, Mapping, Promote | No Comments »
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 2:07pm CEST
Pigeon Blog PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment. Pigeonblog is a social public experiment between human and non-human animals measuring ozone, carbon Monoxide, nitorgen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter (PM2
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 1:43pm CEST
Eye-Fi, which makes memory cards for digital cameras, has introduced new cards that allow wireless uploading of photos and automatic geotagging, using Skyhook Wireless’ WiFi triangulation technology. The premium card includes WiFi hotspot access for a year. From the press release: Eye-Fi Explore allows users to automatically send photos directly from their camera to their PC or Mac, and to one of 25 online photo sharing, printing, social networking, or blogging sites using their home wireles
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 1:22pm CEST
Symantec has announced a beta release free for download to protect Symbian devices from mobile viruses. As an integrated security solution that combines antivirus and firewall protection, Symantec Mobile Security comes at a much needed time with the increasing spread of the MMS-transmitted CommWarrior and Bluetooth-based Cabir viruses. Symantec Mobile Security provides secure mobile computing through comprehensive, reliable protection against malicious attacks directed at devices. Specific
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 1:10pm CEST
"Giving Voice to the Unspoken" is a 20-minute video production showing the hands-on aspects of Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM). P3DM is a PGIS/PPGIS method. The video supports all practical aspects of P3DM described in the resource book "Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling: Guiding Principles and Applications" and documents in detail an exercise conducted within the Pu Mat National Park, a protected area in Vietnam.
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 10:48am CEST
recently, i discovered a new blog, and i immediately – what’s the word? – glommed on to it. beplayful.org, that’s the name, and it says it all. i was able to persuade david to write a post for change therapy. here it is: i love being playful. being playful helps me to relax, to laugh with life, and to come up with new ideas. playfulness is at the heart of my creativity. creativity and playfulness go hand in hand: when you are being truly creative, you are being playful; when you are being pla
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 8:18am CEST
As Facebook goes corporate, Mark Zuckerberg loses an early player May 12th, 2008 It’s kind of like this: an indie rock band gets signed to a major label, and after a taste of the high life, the bassist jumps ship. On Sunday, word got out that Adam D’Angelo, chief technology officer at Facebook and a friend of founder Mark Zuckerberg since high school, had submitted his resignation on Friday. D’Angelo had been one of Facebook’s first employees, though he did not have formal “co-founder” st
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 6:41am CEST
Think-Talk-Write Judul Asli: Curriculum Specifications BAHASA INGGERIS UNTUK SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI (ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) Tingkatan 4 dan Tingkatan 5 Curriculum Specifications of English for Science and Technology. Grade 4 and 5 (PDF, 51 KB). Source: Scribd
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 6:25am CEST
Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia May 12th, 2008 Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine. It brings a new, rich semantic dimension via natural language query processing to Wikipedia that greatly improves the search and reading experience. The company calls it a first step in changing the way users search and consume Web content. “It’s a complete shift. You see this and you want to experie
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 6:15am CEST
Monday’s planning tip for authors Research can play an important role in planning your book’s success. You need to know what’s selling and what are the characteristics that book reviewers look for when reviewing books. An excellent starting point is to explore the writing of Richard Pachter, who reviews business and nonfiction books for the Miami Herald. Richard offers numerous articles, blogs, and resources at his website, www.wordsonwords.com. Richard Pachter’s resources include: Reviews of
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 5:23am CEST
Andrés Vettori me deja un comentario aquí, contando que Retina.Net está nuevamente en actividad. Para los que no saben, Retina.Net es un framework de persistencia de objetos nacido aquí en Argentina, cuyo project leader es el mismo Andrés. Pasen y vean en Codeplex:
[www.codeplex.com] Al parecer hay muchos planes sobre Retina: Linq, Designer, Generics, etc. Sin dudas hay que darle una mirada Gracias Andrés.
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 4:00am CEST
Linklog for 9th May to 12th May May 12th, 2008 My del.icio.us links: 9th May to 12th May all streets - Ben Fry presents a map that is comprised of all the roads in the USA and nothing more Let Them Eat Arugula - Bill Clinton recently declared, "The people in small towns in rural America, who do the work for America, and represent the backbone and the values of this country, they are the people that are carrying her through in this nomination." The corollary–that 50 More Excellent Blog Design
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 2:44am CEST
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 1:00am CEST
This is an interesting view of the United States: - found on Ben Fry's website,
[benfry.com] The author compiled all local roads, and visual patterns of density and human use rapidly emerge. Here, a mix of physical barriers (such as valleys within the Appalachians) can be seen along with major corridors of development. There are still some blocks within some states which are not fully populated (shown as generally-rectangular, lighter-density areas in some of the m
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 12:54am CEST
Photomatix 3.0 Pro ainsi que le plugin Tone Mapping sont les outils que j’utilise pour faire des photos HDR. Ces outils sont extrêmement puissants, rapides et simples à utiliser. Photoshop possède également une fonction intégrée HDR (Fusion HDR…) mais cette dernière ne me donne pas satisfaction, de plus elle est très lente en traitement, car figurez vous que j’ai encore une vieille bécane de 2001, et je pense sérieusement à m’acheter un PC plus puissant. Mais revenons à nos moutons, alors c’
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 12:46am CEST
The password that calls you: CallVerfID May 12th, 2008 On Monday, JanRain, which makes the clever multi-service OpenID login box, OpenID Selector, is expected to announce a security improvement for its own MyOpenID service. The new system, CallVerifID, uses your mobile phone to perform an extra security measure before it will authenticate you on its service. It works like this: When you want to authenticate a site using MyOpenID, first you sign on as usual, with your user ID and password.
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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 12:41am CEST
Mind Maps are diagrams that work the way you think. They make it easy to understand, remember, and communicate complex information. These days we are bombarded with so much information that it can be difficult to make sense of it all, and we suffer from information overload and overwhelm, which reduces our effectiveness. Some of the problems we face are: * inability to solve problems effectively, * lack of creative thought, * lack of focus, * difficulty giving great presentations, *
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