26thMarch
By Andres | In Uncategorized
Worth pursuing? Won’t you please take a minute to participate in the poll. Pretty pretty please.
http://polls.zoho.com/cartosoft/giscamp-poll
Thanks.
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By Andres | In Uncategorized
A few of the things that recently caught my attention.
GreenMap.org Featured on KillerStartups.com
Well, it’s not a startup, but the organization that Kit Robinson discussed in his initial post is getting some more attention. Check it out and contribute.
MetaCarta’s GeoSearch News
Slick mashup uses Metacarta’s GeoSearch and Google Maps to deliver geo-located news stories. [Read more…]
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Well…I WAS going to do this as a ‘Top Ten Signs that You’re a Geospatial Hipster’ type of post, but I figured it might be more fun to see this as an open thread…tongue-in-cheek of course…
I’ll get it going…you can add to it in the comments section…guess if enough folks comment we can make a geospatial hipster bingo board.
- You can write KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON, ArcXML, SLD, and GML snippets from scratch.
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I had proactively stayed away from Twitter and held out on posting/following ‘tweets’ until now. Though I don’t plan on posting what I am doing or where I am, I do see great potential for Twitter as a micro-platform for collaboration and information exchange (bursts?).
So…if you don’t already have an account, I dare you to get one…or go ahead and dismiss it, but at some point I guarantee you will have the lightbulb moment. If you already have an account, please post where I can follow you on your blog (or email me). I plan on using BlinkGeo on Twitter as a general ‘geo’ information exchange. I’ll be adding myself as a follower to your feeds as I become aware of them.
My first post is already up: http://twitter.com/blinkgeo
Hope you will join and follow.
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21stMarch
Day two at Mashup Camp yesterday proved to be a great day! In addition to meeting many innovative thinkers and participating in some great discussions about mashups, mapdango won first place in the mashup competition! Extremely excited to say the least…and my wife is really even more excited about the MacBook Pro I brought home last night.
There were some great mashups in the contest, including several location-based product availability mashups, some mobile mashups (very cool to think about the emerging possibilities of mashing stuff around for devices), iMovie mashups, a Flickr history mashup, and more. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to see all of the mashups that were competing. Nice to think the little mashup from Portland gave those Silicon Valley mashups a run for the bling bling.
Got some great feedback on some new functionality that may be added to mapdango, including *some* integration with social networks (via OpenSocial).
I kept hoping throughout the camp that there had been more geo folks attending…oh well, maybe next time. I had several discussions with non-geo techies that are very interested in geospatial ’stuff’ and it seemed like a great opportunity to pass on knowledge, wisdom, and advocacy to folks that are eager to contribute/participate in an area that is not part of their core. Even though there is WhereCamp, I’m thinking it would be pretty sweet to have a GIS unconference…GISCamp? Anyone interested in seeing if we could make that happen? Bueller…Bueller…Bueller?
Finally, I did manage to make it up to Yahoo!’s office in San Fran to sit in on a small meetup about FireEagle. That’s a good crew of folks down there. I am looking forward to seeing the plethora of apps that interact with FireEagle that are sure to be developed as the year progresses. Have some ideas of my own that may just get developed/released.
Will try to get another post out before the day ends, but either way have a great weekened!
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