Last years Where 2.0 conference was one of the most important conferences of 2005, and O’Reilly have just announced the dates for the 2006 conference to be held in San Jose, CA. in June. If it has anything like the content of last year it will be a must attend conference, in particular for the “traditional” GI industry to see the direction that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are taking.
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Hidden behind the news of the first Intel powered iMacs and Macbooks (yuk – don’t like that name!!) Google released the official MacOS version of Google Earth. Having played with the beta for the last month or so, it works very much the same as the windows version, and will work on relatively low spec macs as long as you are running Tiger. Note however this is the basic Google Earth, not plus so you we need to use another method to get you GPS data loaded – if thats your thing.
Jonathan Ive the head of industrial design at Apple and the Map behind the fantastic design of the iPod and iMacs has become aCBE in the New Year Honours list.
As a republican I don’t usually have much time for this stuff.. but in this case I’ll make the exception !!