Entries Categorized as 'Bits'
- Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 12:06 am · Mike Childs either planted an Easter Egg in Google fashion, or he’s the new Santa and I just got my early Christmas present — as I just noticed the new robust Google Maps tile exporter in Global Mapper 9.01. Best Christmas present — ever. (Except for that year when my parents got me that drum kit when I was little. But it’s darn close!)
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- Fri, 30 Nov 2007 at 11:47 pm · Global Mapper 9.01 released, with over 100 significant upgrades and enhancements included. · (0)
- Thu, 29 Nov 2007 at 12:07 am · Speaking of video, take a look at what Leo’s testing out over on his blog, Life of Leo — it’s a service called Viddler. But the really interesting thing here, is that users can add captions to the timeline of the video — and for various reasons, which Leo briefly touches on as he charmingly wings it through this initial test from his hotel room after a day on the set. I’m intrigued by this caption idea and its potential — very slick.
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- Wed, 28 Nov 2007 at 11:24 pm · I sometimes flip through the menu in YouTube videos to view relative items of interest. This video, I saw after viewing the My Location demo — which hits close to home for me, as I’ve been an advocate in many discussions pertaining to crowd-source potentials for improving or enhancing existing data. (I tend to take a great deal of flack in that discussion as well, though I understand why the antithesis perspective exists.)
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- Wed, 28 Nov 2007 at 6:40 am · Either this guy’s paranoid, or he’s deliberately hitting the company to influence a downturn in shareprice. You decide. (The lense is 16 inches off the ground? Really? Where can I get my hands on that kind of data? And what happened to government restrictions for highest resolution commercial distribution? I wasn’t aware they lifted that.)
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- Mon, 26 Nov 2007 at 9:36 pm · Interesting note on SlashDot about another government push for obtaining cell phone tracking of any American citizen with a cell phone. I’m still trying to figure-out when it was that Americans became the terrorists under the guise of tapping communications that are connected overseas (which, if you have a web site, I’d imagine you too would fall within that category, considering the obvious). [Source: SlashGeo] · (0)
- Mon, 26 Nov 2007 at 12:24 am · I have to thank Leszek Pawlowicz over at Freegeographytools.com for pointing out this image stitcher technology, Autostitch. What used to take me several hours with a traditional stitching method (registering points), took me literally minutes in Autostitch.
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- Fri, 23 Nov 2007 at 9:29 pm · Buying the War, Bill Moyers: I encourage anyone to watch this piece on PBS, if for anything other than your inherent right to understand the truth — and even if it may leave you feeling somewhat sickened in the end. It is within that sickness that one might find honesty and wisdom — and a resolve to right certain wrongs — finding determination to make certain changes accordingly, so that many may find a right path.
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- Fri, 23 Nov 2007 at 2:04 pm · I’m actually quite surprised to see someone in the markets ‘getting’ the concern for certain extended-reach behavioral marketing tactics which violate privacy. And people wonder at all why I come across like a so-called Google ‘fan-boy’? I can also appreciate the paradox of MoveOn.org taking a stance, but requesting that you join their FaceBook Group. · (0)
- Thu, 22 Nov 2007 at 3:41 pm · Dylan Kuhn over at Cyberhobo.net has a plug-in for geo-mashing blog content with Google Maps. This is the kind of thing I like to see in observing the potentials of social networking and content aggregation. Mix that in with making WordPress capable of parsing out GPS metadata tags in images — and you have something a little closer to what I envision. Another great plug-in to see, is GigPress — a WordPress plug-in that provides chronological event listing, which can also auto-link the event address to Google Maps for display.
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- Mon, 19 Nov 2007 at 10:43 pm · Mark Lucas informs us that OSSIM Planet 1.7.0 is released, with upgrades that significantly improve upon functionality, support, and performance. · (0)
- Fri, 16 Nov 2007 at 9:41 am · Deb’s got some rather interesting notes on semantic mash-up projects and asks various questions of note that might spark your interests, forming new questions in your mind and leading you to additional links as you drill down through these projects. She always manages to locate these neat little things — that really aren’t all that little actually. · (0)
- Tue, 13 Nov 2007 at 5:48 am · Microsoft and the DAISY Consortium announced an alliance to develop an Open XML to DAISY XML format converter for Word — for the millions in this world with disabilities. Way to go, Microsoft — you deserve a little pat on the back. But, DAISY? Please keep an eye on them, won’t you? Many of us have grown skeptical of the possibilities which can occur, and which in this case, I would hope doesn’t become the blind leading the blind. But I’ll really attempt to remain hopeful, I will! (Oh, and this wasn’t just a press release, Steve. Steve? Android. Android? Steve. Good. Introduced? Great.)
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- Mon, 12 Nov 2007 at 12:03 am · The knee-jerk theories presented to our society are interesting. But how do you really bring the criminal and malicious out of the shadows in this modern age? First, you enforce illegal immigration, with full accountability on the part of those who even hire illegal immigrants. You don’t issue them legal credentials so that they can then blend back into society and become even more unnoticable. No one is truly anonymous over the network. Enhancing the real-world presence dynamic over the network would actually force the criminal and malicious element into a context that can be more easily enforced. There’s really no need to take away civil liberties for citizens, when the approach and the answers to solving the problems are really quite obvious. And the root answer under this entire premiss is simple — enforcement.
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- Sun, 11 Nov 2007 at 5:36 am · ShareThis 2.0 is released — with more methods and tools for sharing, tools for tracking and analytics, and an upgraded plugin for WordPress.
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- Sat, 10 Nov 2007 at 7:07 pm · Just one of many, many reasons why social networking is so important moving forward in this modern age.
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- Thu, 8 Nov 2007 at 5:32 pm · For some strange reason, I’m suddenly finding myself in the mood to do another round of accessibility testing on this site, now that I’ve tweaked things here and there. I thought I’d start that out using Vischeck’s free online vision test, since this has been a topic I’ve dedicated considerable time to for many years. Here’s a Deuteranope simulation, Protanope simulation, and a Tritanope simulation. Of course, I would have a great deal of work to do to this site to make it pass a 508 Bobby scan. The template itself is extremely inaccessible in that regard — though the on board readers seem to do relatively well, considering. There’s always room for improvement.
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