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I went along today to an excellent showcase of the academic worlds take on Web 2.0 approaches and neogeography. Organised by the team at CASA at UCL the event attracted a large crowd for a one day event to London’s Barbican Centre. Although I was only able to attend the afternoon the presentations I attended …
Interesting “My Map” by techcrunch uk, locating Web 2.0 startup in London, seems like Shoreditch is still the place to be.. View Larger Map Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
We can expect to see numerous stories from Barcelona this week as the The Mobile World Congress 3GSM as was takes place, and is the focus of much of the industry interest. As we all increasingly access the network online, shows like this are becoming more important, the battleground for market share is moving from …
A little from left field as most people have been thinking about the upcoming Location Strategy publication, The Communities and Local Government Select Committee published their report on the Ordnance Survey on Saturday. Despite the dry nature of a select committee report, it is worth reading because there are some key findings nobody other than …
For many years as a user of Apple computers since the Macintosh LC I was quite happy to be a member of the minority of computer users at odds with the majority of other computers users, happy to stand out as a member of “the cult of mac“. Now of course things are different pop …
One of the topics which most often comes up in conversation when talking about creating new maps, is how historic information is recorded and displayed. Spatio-Temporal data modelling is a big and scary topic which has occupied the GI Research community for a number of years, and will do for a many more. Today a …
From the excellent Google Earth Blog, Frank links to another great example of what the process of democratising technology has achieved. A group of guys launched a fully instrumented sensor package below a helium balloon, which was tracked in real time using google earth and produced some stunning images. The video on their site of …
An interesting news story from silicon.com, noting that government staff are to be banned from removing laptops containing personal information from their offices. Is it just me, but should we not be asking why they have such data on their laptops in the first place ? Surely all such information should be held only in …
Last weeks announcement on the Zillow blog that is was releasing its neighbourhood boundary data to the community in Shapefile format is the story of the year so far… (ok so we are only a few weeks in… but this is important) Zillow is the US Real Estate web site that uses much web 2.0 …
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Credit to the Mahalo daily, no great surprises and nothing for me to run out and buy.. although I’m looking forward to the free firmware update for my Apple TV ! I got four on my keynote bingo game however ! Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
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