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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 11:55pm CEST
No, that’s not true. C’mere track. Come on back now. It’s ok. I didn’t mean it, honest. I should say, rather, that I have a healthy (if occasionally bordering-on-an-unbridled-rage) respect for that black oval fixture at high schools, colleges, and the occasional, out-of-touch health club all across our nation. The track, assessed when I’m not threatening to cough up alveoli going around it at high speeds, is a marvelous thing of implacable beauty, I think. If you look quite carefully, with
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 11:22pm CEST
Spreed makes reading RSS feeds faster, stressful August 1st, 2008 Web based RSS feed aggregator Spreed is casual reading’s worst enemy. A speed reader extraordinaire like Robert Scoble might enjoy it as a way to dig through even more stories a day, but at its heart it’s kind of like visiting an aquarium with one of those moving sidewalks; you’re still seeing what you came there to see–you just don’t have the luxury of taking your time. Time is actually the key focus of Spreed. It centers a
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 10:53pm CEST
Ich hatte ja bereits berichtet, dass ich das Open Street Map Projekt super finde und statt sinnlos herumzufahren (ist nicht nur recht teuer zur Zeit, sondern gemäß STVO sogar verboten) katrografiere ich aktuell meine Lieblingsstadt. Hier gibt es knapp über 1.000 km Straßennetz, die ich im laufe der nächsten Monate mal abfahren werde. Gestern habe ich festgestellt, dass es echt von Vorteil ist (weil man strukturiert arbeiten kann), wenn eine zweite person im Auto ist, die sich Stichpunkte macht,
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 10:34pm CEST
I have written a couple of posts about 7-8 months back (here and here) on how to call stored procedures from a rails application. After using stored procedures in my app for a while I started to think about whether we really need them. So over a couple of months I discussed it (mainly short discussions about stored procedures not whether to use them or not) with my colleagues, friends, other people and gave some thought to it. If you are new to stored procedures then here is a sort of textb
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 8:55pm CEST
The world's geologists have dug out their maps and stuck them together, producing the first truly global resource on rocks.
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 7:16pm CEST
GoAnimate puts powerful animation tools in your browser July 31st, 2008 GoAnimate is browser based animation studio. It lets you build multi-scene animated creations, complete with support for music, transitions, and user-uploaded page elements. I spent most of this morning playing around with it and the results are about on par with what you’d find on one of those animated greeting cards. Like most video editing applications GoAnimate centers around a timeline. Everything is drag and drop
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 7:11pm CEST
Directions Magazine has a short write up on GeoJSON (Geographically-enabled JavaScript Object Notation), which, like it’s cousins XML and KML, is a data-interchange format that can be manipulated by any language. It turns out, though, that GeoJSON is extremely JavaScript friendly (it’s right there in it’s name!) and would work well with any JavaScript web client like the Yahoo! or Google Maps APIs. If you’re interested in learning more about the guts of GeoJSON, this article is a good place to
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 6:10pm CEST
Yahoo gives Delicious more speed, fewer punctuation marks July 31st, 2008 Yahoo has revamped Delicious, saying the site for storing, describing, and sharing Web site bookmarks is faster, easier to use, and has better search abilities. The updated look to Yahoo's Delicious Web site for storing, searching, tagging, and sharing bookmarks. (Click to enlarge.) (Credit: Yahoo) The speedup comes from a new server system that’s snappier and more reliable, Yahoo said on its Delicious blog on T
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 6:01pm CEST
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Sony's China-only PMPs have always been a little more interesting than the gear we see Stateside, and the new PMX-M80 is no exception. The 4.3-inch touchscreen player packs 16GB of storage and decent codec support into a sleek white box, as well as a new mapping application that's apparently a novelty in China. Too bad this thing won't ever make it over here -- although at 2,260 yuan ($331), it probably wouldn't shake things up too much. [Via PMP To
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 5:32pm CEST
Do you live on a fault line? Check this U.S. Geological Survey interactive map to view the latest seismic hazards. Since the earthquake happened right outside Los Angeles, lots of broadcast cameras were rolling. Did you notice how many people were caught just standing around? Some of them even saying, “What do we do?” There are good answers to that question: DROP, COVER, AND HOLD ON! Move only a few steps to a nearby safe place. Stay indoors until the shaking stops and you’re sure it’s sa
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 5:16pm CEST
Mapped: 2094 cases of political violence in Zimbabwe July 31st, 2008 Last week the BBC had a report that groups of MDC supporters returning from South Africa were carrying out reprisal attacks against Zanu PF war veterans who had beaten up their relatives. The link to the piece was emailed to us by a few people with different messages ranging from “It’s about time someone did this”, to “I hope Sokwanele will condemn this as much as you do Zanu PF-led violence”. The incidents, close to Zimb
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 4:33pm CEST
Got Web 2.0 questions? Ask me *live* today at 11:00 a.m. July 31st, 2008 Got questions about Web 2.0 and Web apps? So do I! But nonetheless I will do my best to answer your questions on the best online applications for various tasks, on privacy, infrastructure, and any other Web 2.0 topic you want to throw my way in today’s live Ask The Editors session. Ask the Editors is a live text show. You ask, and I answer (or fake it). Tune in to connect with me and talk about the topic I spend
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:54pm CEST
Following a quiet word down at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Google has been given regulatory approval to publish photographs taken by the fleet of camera-carrying black Opels currently surveying Britain. Source: The Register
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:32pm CEST
Tweet your files with Drop.io July 31st, 2008 Online storage provider Drop.io has a cool new feature for its users today, allowing them to tap into Twitter to post updates every time they add files to one of their storage folders. Drop.io’s architecture is based around folders (called “drops”) so after plugging in your Twitter log-in to any specific drop it will broadcast changes every time files are added or removed. What makes this feature particularly useful is that you can assign it t
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 2:16pm CEST
Tom Crawford, CEO of VizThink, interviewed Chuck (mind mapping software expert) and me on July 22, 2008. To listen to this 1-hour free event click here. Bookmark us![IMG [Ask] ] [IMG [del.icio.us] ] [IMG [Digg] ] [IMG [Facebook] ] [IMG [Furl] ] [IMG [Google] ] [IMG [MySpace] ] [IMG [Newsvine] ] [IMG [Reddit] ] [IMG [Slashdot] ] [IMG [Squidoo] ] [IMG [StumbleUpon] ] [IMG [Technorati] ] [IMG [ThisNext] ] [IMG [Yahoo!] ] [IMG [Email] ] More »
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 2:09pm CEST
Google Street View is approved for the U.K. July 31st, 2008 Google Street View has been given approval to drive on the other side of the street on the other side of the pond. The company’s controversial photo-mapping tool has gotten the green light from the U.K.’s privacy watchdog group. Street View uses special vehicles with panoramic cameras to snap pictures of streets. It then uses the digital images as part of its online mapping service, so that people can see what locations look like.
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 1:52pm CEST
Hi, We need to integrate OTM 5.5 CU4 with PC Miler Webservices v22. Has anyone achieved this and if yes, 1. How can OTM call PC Miler's Webservices as by seeing the External Engine, it seems that OTM makes a native call rather than calling a Target Webservice. 2. How can the triggered OTM XML (Eg. Distance Query) be captured? 3. What is the response XML expected by OTM? 4. Are there any transformations involved in-transit. Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Naveen Gupta
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 12:45pm CEST
Hello everyone, we would like to replace default map (shp layer) with image (jpg). There is definite instructions in file glog.webserver.properties: #-------------------------------------------------------------------- # Map Related Shipments #-------------------------------------------------------------------- glog.webserver.map.layer=glog.webserver.svg.ShapeL ayerProvider glog.webserver.map.layer=glog.webserver.svg.Gratic uleLayerProvider glog.webserver.map.shapeIndexFile=$docume
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 10:28am CEST
Nuovi cataloghi interattivi dei prodotti IGM 31 Luglio, 2008 | di Andrea Borruso | 1 Commento | in » Cartografia, GeoNews, Web-Mapping Finalmente l’IGM ha aggiornato il catalogo interattivo dei propri prodotti. Per tutti gli utenti finali è una buona notizia, perché questo supera di gran lunga il precedente. Il cambiamento più evidente è tecnologico: da una tradizionale interfaccia html, ad una vera interfaccia di webmapping basata su OpenLayers con alle spalle un server WFS e (sembra) un
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 7:27am CEST
Garmin n vi 3 5 Inch 350 Portable GPS Navigator Factory Refurbished Includes: preloaded City Navigator North America NT v7 data (full unlock), vehicle suction cup mount, AC charger, carrying case, 12-24 volt car adapter cable, dashboard disk, USB cable, & more. Garmin nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant - This portable GPS navigator is a great companion and guide for traveling to new places, as well as making it easier to get to places you normally travel to. The preloaded City Navigator
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 6:18am CEST
I was just reading the sticky titled the same and was going to try some of them but I wanted to make sure they still worked with the new update... I keep blue screening when a lot is going on in game... :realmad: I just had to have my mobo and hd replaced in my laptop so I don't know if it the update or my computer... :arghh: please help techie gods! :throw:
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 5:40am CEST
Socialmedian tweaks conversation mechanics July 31st, 2008 Socialmedian is a new Web 2.0 conversation service that does a decent job of repackaging concepts that users of Digg and Twitter will find familiar. I fear it’s a bit too similar to other existing services to break into the mainstream, but there are some concepts and experiments on the site that make it work, at least for its devoted early beta users. The site has been in closed alpha testing until now, but it is scheduled to open
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 5:00am CEST
Argument clinics: Where I Stand and UberSpat July 31st, 2008 When I talked to Opposing Views CEO Russell Fine in preparation for my review of the site a week ago, I asked him if he honestly thought that his service, which recruits experts from both sides of contentious issues, would actually change anyone’s mind. The question comes from my observation that the profusion of contemporary media choices — by which I mean talk shows and blogs — allows users to easily associate themselves with con
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 4:29am CEST
As a human embryo develops, its cells become progressively restricted in the types of specialized cells that they can produce. Inner cell mass (ICM) cells of the blastocyst can make any type of body cell. Gastrula-stage cells can give rise to the cells of a given germ layer. Later, cells become even more restricted. For example, the pancreatic bud of the endoderm layer can only make the cells of the pancreas.
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:53am CEST
The Bads news is that pl_overhaul is gonna redone. The good news is it will be more organize, a bit bigger, more gameplay situations “Like More Tunnels and more cover and stuff like that To Help The Flow of the game” and have better brush work. So here’s the plan 3 Concept Days. Each Day, I will Finish a concept of each stage. 3 Weeks Of Map Work. 2 Days Preparation For Release.
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:46am CEST
‘Scrabulous’ gets a nip-tuck, returns as ‘Wordscraper’ July 31st, 2008 In the high school cafeteria of Facebook apps, Scrabulous is like that girl who gets in trouble for showing too much skin, only to throw on a hoodie and be let back into the principal’s good graces. Sort of. The game has effectively returned, but with a redesigned board, a few original play options, a different points tabulation system, and a new name, Wordscraper. Scrabulous' new look as Wordscraper Props to Adam Ost
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:30am CEST
I posted the other day about data visualization tools, but even the best tools can’t save you if you’re clueless about visualization techniques. Most of this stuff isn’t web-specific, but I rant so frequently about this stuff to my classmates that I thought it’d be worthy of a post. Charts! Flowing Data recently challenged their readers to improve this chart: What was the graph trying to show? It was trying to show party registration in California over the past five presidential elections.
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Posted: July 31st, 2008, 12:24am CEST
Sonia Flöckemeier wird in ihrem Blog-Beitrag am Montag die Vorteile des Mind-Mapping darstellen. Als sehr intuitives Verfahren erleichtert es auf anschauliche Art die Strukturierung komplexer Aufgaben. Für interessierte Einsteiger gibt es unter
[freemind.softonic.de] eine kostenlose Software, mit denen die Mindmaps am PC erstellt und bearbeitet werden können. Auch gegenüber kostenpflichtigen Programmen lässt Freemind kaum Wünsche offen. Viel Spaß bei Kartieren Ihrer Gedankenwelt!
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 11:40pm CEST
Bei ekstreme.com gibt es noch einige Fotos von Googles Streetview Car. Und die Wiedergabe eines Gesprächs mit dem Fahrer eines dieser Fahrzeuge. Possibly related posts (automatically generated)Density map15 Plugins um WordPress in ein Social Network zu verwandelnGoogle Street View Data Collection CarXML Google Maps Wordpress PluginGoogle Maps Alternativen
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 10:39pm CEST
Adobe’s Photoshop Express gets printing, desktop uploader July 30th, 2008 Adobe just updated its Photoshop Express service with a handful of relatively unexciting but useful new features. The most important one is the inclusion of printing through Shutterfly, making it easier to take edited photos and get them printed either for yourself or to send as gifts. Previously you’d have to pull down the photos off of Adobe’s servers or send them to a partner server to have them printed elsewhere.
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 10:15pm CEST
Got Web 2.0 questions? Ask me *live* on Thursday July 30th, 2008 Got questions about Web 2.0 and Web apps? So do I! But nonetheless I will do my best to answer your questions on the best online applications for various tasks, on privacy, infrastructure, and any other Web 2.0 topic you want to throw my way in tomorrow’s live Ask The Editors session. Ask the Editors is a live text show. You ask, and I answer (or fake it). Tune in on Thursday to connect with me and talk about the topic I
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 9:30pm CEST
New service creates travel journal by tracking cell phone July 30th, 2008 Online travel communications retailer Telestial has just launched Travel Journal, an online service that automatically creates an online trip journal based on the location of the user’s phone. Using a special SIM card that triangulates the user’s location using cell phone towers, Travel Journal automatically updates in more than 100 countries. Travel Journal plots the traveler's location on a Google map (Credit: Tel
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 8:54pm CEST
Howdy folks. Here are today’s tidbits From the Blogosphere Lori MacVittie has put up a post that takes a little deeper look at port knocking than the typical geek response of “Wow. That’s cool!” She brings up some very valid points that need to be considered when thinking about deploying technologies. Rob talks about how a new survery for PCI folks came into being and then asks us to go take it. Help him out. Augusto points out that just because we will probably have some neat and nifty ne
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 8:43pm CEST
1Password makes Web log-ins portable July 30th, 2008 1Password lets you add and manage all sorts of Web log-ins in one place. (Credit: CNET Networks) iPhone and iPod Touch users have a fantastic new solution for keeping track of log-in credentials from site to site. It’s called 1Password, and like the name suggests, you only need to remember one password to access and use your log-ins across hundreds and thousands of sites. Like Roboform and other desktop password solutions, 1Password le
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:19pm CEST
Released on: July 30, 2008, 10:03 am Press Release Author: Gabriella Sannino Industry: Real Estate Press Release Summary: Data Mapping Genius Datamap Intelligence revolutionizes Demographic Data Lakewood, NJ- A unique online application, released by Datamap Intelligence, is transforming the way companies use demographics for marketing. Press Release Body: Due to the explosion of new [...]
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:13pm CEST
Denver-based 3-D digital mapping firm Intermap Technologies Corp. revealed Wednesday that its Intermap Federal Services Inc. subsidiary has received a $4.27 million contract from an undisclosed (and presumably government-related) client.... (more)
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:02pm CEST
Yaiks, has been long seen writing any post for the passed weeks. Mainly busy with work on my gateway deployment. Today I like to introduce you to a simple and nice mapping development toolkit a.k.a OpenMap(TM). It is an open source project developed around JavaBean concept for building GIS application. If you are looking for some application to show map data or develop one that not only show data but also handle user events to manipulate data, you are in luck. [Go to OpenMap Home page] Ope
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 6:09pm CEST
Build killer Flash games with Playcrafter July 30th, 2008 Flash games can be obscenely fun to play, but not so easy to make. There is however a wonderful market of game building tools including standouts like like Microsoft’s Popfly, and Sploder that have seen steady improving. PlayCrafter is a new entrant to the fray with a tool that lets you build very simple, enjoyable games that run right in your browser. Like the Incredible Machine and games that have come since, Playcrafter is a piec
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 3:29pm CEST
Singapore. The ISEA 2008 conference is pretty much over now - the last event broadly connected with it is a talk by new media theorist Lev Manovich in the beautiful Lasalle arts space. With a title of "Cultural Analytics", I wouldn't be so surprised if this was going to be pretty close to what my colleagues at QUT have in mind when they talk about cultural science... His aim here is to extrapolate from current to future cultural trends, and he notes that such futurism is traditionally very dif
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 12:55pm CEST
Garmin MapSource Topo U.S. 2008 No comment - Post a comment Binding: Electronics ASIN: B000RAASFK Manufacturer: Garmin Average Customer Review: (From 116 total reviews) List Price: $116.65 Amazon Price: $72.09 (71 new 3 used available) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours (Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping) » Read the rest of the entry.. Share This Jul 30
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 12:45pm CEST
EA: Hack took Facebook ‘Scrabble’ down July 30th, 2008 The saga continues: Electronic Arts, which handles digital versions of the board game Scrabble for North American parent company Hasbro, has claimed that malicious hackers were responsible for the disappearance of its Facebook application on Tuesday. The game had crashed on the same day that the creators of Scrabulous, a popular imitation game, blocked access to North American visitors after a legal complaint from Hasbro. With the real
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 11:00am CEST
For MySpace, both hires and layoffs July 30th, 2008 MySpace, the social network owned by News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media, announced on Wednesday the hiring five new members of its executive team, three senior vice presidents and two vice presidents, in fields ranging from engineering to customer service. They’re coming from a mixed background of media and tech, too. Manu Thapar, former vice president of engineering at Yahoo, has been hired as MySpace’s senior vice president of engineerin
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 10:11am CEST
Yesterday, Bioinformatics accepted this paper of mine: Efficient Whole-Genome Association Mapping using Local Phylogenies for Unphased Genotype Data Z. Ding, T. Mailund and Y.S. Song Abstract Motivation: Recent advances in genotyping technology has made data acquisition for whole-genome association study cost effective, and a current active area of research is developing efficient methods to analyze such large-scale data sets. Most sophisticated association mapping methods that are curre
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 8:05am CEST
Earlier this week Yahoo announced the release of a new version of its Yahoo Local Search API. This new release adds some interesting functionality: it allows developers to issue queries to the API based on a route. According to Yahoo: We are releasing a new version of the Yahoo! Local API (V3), that gives developers a key new feature – the ability to search for convenient points of interest for a given user defined route. For example, as you are driving from San Francisco to Sacramento, you
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:06am CEST
Read this ... BEFORE YOU VOTE!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to start a poll on....should we get some of those new maps back in Tf2 (that were removed about a month ago). Some of us started to not show up in Tf2 anymore, cause we lost interest in playing the same old default maps. I am kinda sad that Aqua, Smb_castle, Cliffhanger, and many other cool maps were removed. So, please let the mapping admins know! I also, mentioned a map called cp_snowbridge_thallus. Its not new, its been out for a while
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 7:04am CEST
Privacy and GeoTagging Photos with GPS-enabled iPhone July 29th, 2008 Being able to record where a photo is taken one of the key features of the new iPhone. Not only does the phone capture a great picture but there is no residual “Now where was I”. You can instantly see where the photo was taken on a detailed map. This is great for geocoding when surveying, but what are the social implications? Do you want to share this level of detailed personal information? Why wouldn’t you? Consider
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 6:52am CEST
Orlando bicycle mapping goes Google Nice going in Orlando, where a Google Earth file has just been made available that's loaded with information bicyclists can use -- not only where the routes and bike lanes are but such practical information as which lanes are close to "door zones" and where there are underpasses. If you use Google Earth, and plan to ride Orlando anytime soon, or just love playing with maps, get the Orlando Bikeways Map from Metroplan Orlando. Posted by JHop
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 2:16am CEST
Why all the toys, you may ask? In many of the workshop photos in this blog you see people playing with various toys — lots of them were the toys we grew up playing with. Here’s the rational behind their value: When learning is fun it is more memorable. It provides a multi-sensory learning environment. Some of the toys Prevents boredom. During the occasional activity when one person finishes before another, there is plenty of available entertainment to pass a bit of time. Helps recapture the
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 1:05am CEST
Domain mapping allows you to buy a domain and have it show content that is hosted someplace else. Read how-to for FREE!...
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Posted: July 30th, 2008, 12:07am CEST
Why Rafe had a bad Webware day July 30th, 2008 If you follow me on the nanoblogs (Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed, etc.), you may have seen me complaining recently about getting pitched on new Web apps that I find either derivative or confusing. Or both. Now, in any entrepreneurial ecosystem, a big proportion of the ideas that people come up with will be bad, and many of those bad ideas will become actual products. But at the moment, the ratio of bad Web products to good (or even interesting)
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 11:44pm CEST
One Palringo to rule iPhone IM? July 30th, 2008 Palringo's the first multi-chat protocol app for the iPhone. (Credit: Palringo) The new iPhone app from Palringo brings an official multi-instant messaging client to the Apple device. It supports eight chat protocols and includes some useful iPhone-specific features, but also suffers from several irritating limitations. Palringo can handle Apple iChat, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber, and Windows Live Messenger.
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 11:24pm CEST
Exporting PersonalBrain MindMaps Online Courtesy of Shermanlive.com Filed under Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Mind Mapping, PersonalBrain 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: July 29th, 2008, 11:19pm CEST
PersonalBrain Viewing Options Courtesy of Shermanlive.com. Filed under Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Mind Mapping, PersonalBrain 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: July 29th, 2008, 10:49pm CEST
The new WordPress iPhone Native App sadly does not work with WordPress MU if you use the domain mapping option. It only works for the main website. It won’t connect to any other domain mapped website. The problem has to do with the way we are doing domain mapping and how it affects XML-RPC.
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 10:30pm CEST
[This is an edited version of the July 28th blog post on my MySpace Music profile, and a follow-up to the July 9th post here.] On July 1st I began work on new project called the World Listening Project. It was formed by small group of musicians and sonic artists under the initial goal of collecting field recordings from every country in the world and then presenting them on a web-based sound map for the Chicago Calling Festival (October 1–11, 2008). The festival director, Dan Godston cited R.
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:39pm CEST
Mikel Maron of OpenStreetMap.org (OSM) is heading to Jordan to work with JumpStart International. He’ll be mapping the country with the help of Jordanian engineers and then loading the data into OSM. Hopefully, he’ll also get to enjoy to hospitality of the Jordanian people, the incredible food, the open air cafes and the massive amount of history that the country has to offer. Mikel has been involved with everything GIS for some time now. He writes about his adventures over at Brain Off,
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:37pm CEST
Data provider Urban Mapping, in a case of “reverse publishing” (sort of), is now selling physical, folding maps for New York and Chicago: Actually, this product pre-dates the current incarnation of the company. Founder Ian White was making these maps before coming to SF and founding UMI.
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:16pm CEST
Google Maps has rolled out a new look and feel, which involves larger maps and “less clutter.” From the Google LatLong blog: “With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter. Find businesses (creamery near palo alto), addresses (6605 Delmar Blvd, St Louis, MO), and more (root beer in sf) from one search box. You might also notice the map is a tad bigger, and that it’s easier to get full screen maps.” These are minor enhancements, but they
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 8:44pm CEST
There were two things that Google Maps brought to the world that captured users’ collective imaginations when it first launched: Better looking maps (they were just nicer to look at) Pan, drag and zoom capabilities Since that time, Google has continued to refine Maps and introduce a range of features, including KML and GeoRss integration, StreetView, etc. Many of those upgrades have been documented here. Google’s competitors haven’t stood still of course, with Microsoft in particular inves
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 7:45pm CEST
MySpace used to be the prime site for people to hook up. It seemed like everybody had one and everybody’s friends had one. At first I thought MySpace was brilliant. I would sign on every 15 minutes and constantly change my profile and layout. I thought it was so awesome that I could personalize it like that. After a couple of months, though, I got bored and now I usually get online every other day to check comments and messages. Luckily, this was made easy by the 2.0 software that I use on my
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 6:12pm CEST
Un projet intéressant, pour tous ceux qui veulent bâtir des petites interfaces web en utilisant les dernière technologies de Microsoft sur le framework 3.5 SP1 sans rien y connaître ou presque, est en train de voir le jour. L'idée, comme on utilise LINQ et Entity est de créer une interface graphique pilotée par les données. J'entends déjà les "Mais c'est d'la m...de" de nos amis JPCoffiens de l'informatique mais ce sont des problématiques que nous avons rencontrées chez certains clien
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 6:09pm CEST
The changes to Google Maps are subtle but nice. Specifically, the Directions feature has been moved down to the left and now sits next to your My Maps tab. The Directions interface is also changed to accommodate the new placement on the page. The column tab for hiding the left hand column is now at the top of the column and is more obvious (I circled the tab in red below to really make it obvious). Previously, it was just a small little triangle midway down the column that casual users probably
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 6:03pm CEST
The project “the pain of everyday life” is a city-intervention and a digital art performance addressing public and private space within the realm of everyday constraints. It resembles an urban interface for an invisible city, an architecture which is subconsciously perceived and which constantly oscillates as resonant landscape, consisting of electromagnetic waves. Read more about it here. SCREENS Home
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 4:53pm CEST
ADO.NET Entity Framework is an object relationship mapping (ORM) tool. It was designed to provide a layer of abstraction between the logical schema and concept schema of an application, and to decrease the amount code need for a data centric application. Some benefits of the Entity framework: Data storage engine and schema independence: Due to the layer of abstraction between the logical and conceptual schema of your application, you no-longer need to know and hard cord the application to a s
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 4:43pm CEST
Had porridge and Fairtrade coffee, walked up to the bus stop, hot and sticky weather — scribbling in my moleskine and feeling a little desperate about the writing not coming together quickly enough, the slow pace of recovery, how clueless I feel much of the time, insecure and travelling through uncharted territory. Sat and looked at at hot golden fields, hollyhocks in profusion, the brilliant scarlet flowers of the runner beans winding up their trellises. To the library where I took out a
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 3:10pm CEST
You City: Sample Map of Manhattan from digitalurban on Vimeo. A while ago we posted about ShangHai WangCheng Net Tech Co., Ltd and their maps of cities in China created in a unique 'sim city esk' point of view. The company has partnered with YouCity.com to explore the western market and have just released 3 demos maps of Manhattan. The results are stunning (see the movie above) with the final version offering multi-angle viewing and an open api promised. You can take the samples for a spin
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 2:13pm CEST
Recently there have been rumblings in the space about the propensity of the Sportstracker app to freeze at random, but the guys at The Nokia E71 blog have reported a possible fix. The problem seems to have been that after a few minutes, or a few kilometres of ‘active tracking’, the app would freeze, rendering all data useless (especially if you were about to beat your time for your jogging route). There’s no official fix for this problem, despite the Beta Labs team being fully aware of it, but
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 2:06pm CEST
Cavale: With rising crime rates, The Home Office in U.K will provide residents with Google-style images of crime scenes and where exactly they took place. A resident could effectively check how many violent crimes took place and exactly where and how close they were from the incident. The maps would be available online and also in leaflet forms and incidents of crime can be searched with the help of postcodes. Graphs indicate the statistics, and clarify trends, month on month crime comparison
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 2:02pm CEST
Taking Advantage Of iPhone Geo-Marketing Filed under 9517 The iPhone is a remarkable device for both user and for businesses looking to take advantage of its location based capabilities. With the worldwide release of Apple’s iPhone 3G this device has become the most sought after smart cell phone ever. Apple has always known that Personal Digital Assistants or PDA would be a power and convenient tool for both business and personal use. Back in 1993 Apple marketed the Newton but it wa
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 1:50pm CEST
Quick Fix "Mapping Across" NLP Technique. "Is there a food you wish you could stop eating?" These questions must be fired at the client very quickly while they visualize that food.. Food you love... You have a food that you love that you absolutely wish you didn't? What is it? You really like them? You wish you didn't? When you think of this food, do you have a picture? Is it black and white or colour? Is it near or far? Is it bright or dim? Location - where is it? The size of the picture
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 1:29pm CEST
2008年度个人管理类博客Top 50之Getting Organized篇 26、Unclutterer » Daily tips on how to organize your home and office 主要探讨如何组织你的生活和工作，让其有条不紊。 27、Ian’s Messy Desk 此博客几个方面的话题很受欢迎，比如：自我提升、培养幽默感、每日金言、简单生活、思维导图、沟通等等。 原文：The Top 50 Productivity Blogs Of The Year
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 12:42pm CEST
comScore, which specialises in digital measurement, says the use of mobile maps is becoming increasingly popular in the US and Europe, with 8% of US mobile subscribers and 3% of European subscribers accessing maps from the mobile phone in the three-month period ending May 2008. This represents a growth rate of 82% and 49% in the number of users, respectively. According to the comScore M:Metrics Benchmark Study, the iPhone is the leading device used to access maps in the US, while in Europe, the
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 12:42pm CEST
Scrabulous disappears from Facebook after Hasbro complaint July 29th, 2008 Facebook has blocked access to Scrabulous, the faux-Scrabble game that quickly became one of the most popular applications on its developer platform. The ban applies to U.S. and Canadian users of Facebook, in the wake of a lawsuit filed last week by Hasbro, the game manufacturer that owns the rights to Scrabble in those two countries. In the suit, Hasbro named as defendants the creators of Scrabulous–Kolkata, India-
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 12:00pm CEST
A lot of people ask my opinion on whether they should use mind mapping software instead of pen and paper. In most cases I usually recommend the person stick with pen and paper. In all the time I have been mind mapping I have very rarely used any mind mapping software. I have tried various software packages, but I haven’t found the need to rush out and buy any of the commercial options or use any of the open source solutions available. There is a place for each way of mind mapping, but it sh
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 10:48am CEST
Download Here This software is an Antitheft and you can use it to track your Windows Mobile device when it was lost or stolen. It works catching a formated SMS sent from any phone and then send useful informations back. These informations can have GPS coordinates, list os contacts, owner informations and more. You can use it to others objectives, like keep your eye in your child. Use your imagination! To use all features RemoteTracker has, your device must have GPS and GSM capabilitie
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 10:33am CEST
The guys at New GPS Reviews have been quite literally test driving the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system and found that it can be used for more than just getting you to your final destination. By utilising the integrated music player (which also has an FM transmitter, allowing you to play your own music through your car stereo), and the ability to view photographs and videos when stuck in traffic or during rest stops, no one can play the ‘bored’ card. Build-wise, this unit gets the thumbs up, f
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 10:22am CEST
Rating: 0 Posted By: milkandcookies Views: 6 Replies: 0 The Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Bundle comes loaded with a full basemap of North and South America, including lakes, rivers, cities, interstates, national and state highways, railroads and coastlines. I hope this link works Welcome Back! Grocery Coupons from Fatwallet.com. View Details Tags: Amazon Goldbox, Cdrom, Etrex Garmin, Etrex Gps, Garmin Etrex, Garmin Etrex Legend, Garmin Gps, Garmin Legend, Garmin Mapsource, Gps Garmin, G
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:00am CEST
Mindmapping auf Papier war vorgestern, die lokale Installation von Mindmapping-Software war gestern - heute, im Web 2.0, passiert alles online: Online Mind Mapping. Wie funktioniert das? Das Video von Peter Bütikofer & Company zeigt das schön. Mögliche Plattformen sind: www.bubble.us www.mindmeister.com www.mindomo.com www.mindjet.com etc., etc. Tags: Web 2.0, Mindmapping, Online Mind Mapping, Web 2.0
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 1:00am CEST
Many seek, few find online bicycle maps We check in on the quest for good, web-based bicycle maps, with a solid survey report from the Associated Press. Posted by JHop
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Posted: July 29th, 2008, 12:24am CEST
Learning to digitally map their forests has empowered a group of landowners of Dreketi, on Vanua Levu, to better manage their resources. The group of landowners from the villages of Keka and Vatuvonu of the Yavusa Drawa are the first in the Northern Division to learn about digitally mapping their forests. The landowners' forests have been managed under the Sustainable Forest Management Project since 2003 and are the model project for the country. GTZ official Jalesi Mateboto said the fi
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 11:16pm CEST
"Cabinet Office papers reveal the final plan intends to go even further. It will use images from Google, which show aerial pictures of every street and park in the country"
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 11:04pm CEST
Run Keeper uses GPS to track exercise, road trips July 29th, 2008 Exercise enthusiasts will love Run Keeper, an upcoming fitness tracker for the iPhone. It centers around a really simple tracker that follows your location as you run via GPS, then puts that information into a personal database. Every time you complete a run you can see how far you went (to the best of the phone’s tracking capabilities) along with the time spent, and how it compares with previous runs, all on a Google Map.
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 10:18pm CEST
Home office press release: "Every neighbourhood in England and Wales will have access to the latest local crime information through new interactive crime maps, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced today."
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 8:46pm CEST
In time for the 2008 summer Olympics, GPS device manufacturer Garmin announced the release of City Navigator China NT 2008. The new app combines millions of points of interest onto a microSD/SD card, which users can plug into a Garmin device. The names of locations are displayed in Pinyin, a popular Latin-alphabet phonetic spelling of the Mandarin language. The maps extend beyond Bejing to more than 980 Chinese cities. "This new suite of digital maps helps tourists locate stadiums, hotels, re
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 8:19pm CEST
I was reading an article in the glossy magazine of a Sunday paper yesterday and I came across a mention of Mind Mapping in relation to learning languages. Tony Buzan has had written a series of books looking at using ideas like Mind Mapping and memory techniques to help people learn a language and this was making mention of those. Of course as a thinking tool, the use of Mind Mapping elevates all aspects of thought but it is especially powerful for learning. Here are just a suggestion of how
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 7:01pm CEST
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