31stOctober
As far as I know, no official photos of the rumored gPhone have been released. So I decided on a pseudo-whim that it might be ‘fun’ to see how many mock-ups of the gPhone I could find using Google’s image search. Although not exhaustive, the graphics below give a good idea of the various ideas that are floating around on the web. And yes, the last image is included just for fun.
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31stOctober
By Andres | In Uncategorized
Happy Halloween to all. In New Mexico at SWUG. Some of the items that recently caught my attention.
Garmin ups the ante on TomTom and makes a bid for Tele Atlas. Curious to see what happens to their stock, which tumbled 11% after the news was announced, but which *seemed* to recover some after Garmin announced good Q3 results.
Is this what the gPhone might look like? (photo credit: T3)
The gPhone rumor mill is spinning again. Plenty of coverage to go around [Read more…]
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Last night I revisited the various mashups out there for the SoCal fires…the fires a truly tragic situation to say the least. In an effort to familiarize myself more with the Flickr API, I thought it might be worthwhile to mash the geotagged Flickr photos related to the fire with Google Maps. My goal was to create another way for folks to visualize the scene and get a feel for what folks have taken photos of.
As I worked more with this great API, I realized that it would be worthwhile to create a little PHP script that serves up the geotagged photos as KML or GeoRSS. So I did. You can see the map mashup I created with the KML from the geotagged photos. The output is based on a geographic extent that covers the San Diego and Los Angeles metropolitan regions (and then some), and photos used are from 10-15-2007 or newer. Results are mixed, and I guesstimate that about 80% of the photos are related to the fires and the rest are random SoCal photos.
You can customize the KML/GeoRSS…documentation below the screen shots.
Take this script with a grain of salt…a developer I do not claim to be.
To get KML
http://www.blinkgeo.com/labs/burnkml.php?format=kml&page=<page number, default is 1>&keywords=<your keywords separated by spaces, default is fire>
e.g., http://www.blinkgeo.com/labs/burnkml.php?format=kml&page=1&keywords=wild fire irvine
To get GeoRSS
http://www.blinkgeo.com/labs/burnkml.php?format=georss&page=<page number, default is 1>&keywords=<your keywords separated by spaces, default is fire>
e.g., http://www.blinkgeo.com/labs/burnkml.php?format=georss&page=1&keywords=fires san diego
Let me know what you think…
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24thOctober
Here are links to *some* of the stuff that caught my attention during my short little lunch today…
JackBe Raises $9.5M, Provides Mashups for the Enterprise
Platial+Frappr+Place Recommendation Engine
ArcGIS with Virtual Earth Embedded
NCI and Google to Develop Cutting-Edge Geospatial Search and Visualization Capabilities for Federal Customers [Read more…]
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22ndOctober
In case you don’t already subscribe to, or regularly visit, John Musser’s ProgrammableWeb, I strongly recommend that you do. John is an extremely sharp guy, and he knows what’s up.
I had forgotten that I had bookmarked this post on RarePlay titled ‘Mashups Land on the Corporate Doorstep‘ until I came across this blog post by John that gives a nice run down of Dion Hinchcliffe’s ‘Top 10 Challenges Facing Enterprise Mashups.’ You can read the posts for yourself, but the top five challenges according to Hinchcliffe are: [Read more…]
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