a mash-up of internally developed software, made-to-order hardware, artificial intelligence, obsession with performance, and an unorthodox approach to people management
At first, I though the word 'mashup' was misused, but this wikipedia entry for Mashup tells me I'm somewhat wrong. Somewhat because there's no application involved. But it doesn't matter, misusing a word can be seen as writing with style;-) In my industry, mashups mainly (only?) applies to maps...
You'll get much more information here for Flickr and other photo geotagging tools. It includes stories about loc.alize.us, geotagged photos browsing in Google Earth, Picasa photos in Google Earth, see this specific story on geocoding photos with the numerous related stories, Flickrmap.com, etc. Yup, this is a shameless plug, but hey, slashgeo does really provide information on the topic (and there's no ads by the way).
Those interesting in the topics should take a look at the Google Maps Hack book (review here).
Anyone whom have interest in Google Maps API must take a look at the numerous alternatives. Which includes OpenLayers.org (which just released v2.0). There are various other alternatives, all with different levels of interoperability and compatibility with OGC standards. On the subject, see slashgeo's web mapping section. .
I'm surprised no one mentioned the iDisk so far in this thread (as far as my search could tell).
I'm happy to see Microsoft providing competition in this area. I am a subscriber of Apple ".mac" with iDisk, providing 1 gig of online storage. I must say, I'm rather disapointed to the service, it just doesn't make sense when compared to the price tag. I'm pseudo locked-in by the.mac email address that all my relatives use. (They need a dramatic improvement of the dot-mac services and features to make it worthed)
To go back to the online storage, iDisk is somewhat good. It synchronize itself in the background. Nothing to do, nothing to understand. This is convenient. It has a public folder. You can even allow anonymous surfers to write in your public folder! It is very well integrated with Apple iLife software, such as iWeb (html pages) and Garageband (Podcasts) and Backup (which will unbdoubtly disapear with Leopard's Time Machine). My prefered featured might by the synchronisation with Backup.
I personally use this personnal storage to swap files between home and work. Yes, I could use a USB drive (I have a 1 gig USB key), but it is just faster using my iDisk! (added to the fact that our Debian machines at work have difficulties mounting USB drives...) Oh yeah, this reminds me, you can mount Apple's iDisk on macs and windows as a file system, but also on Linux machines (I did a google search some time ago and found a sourceforge project (afaicr) allowing this).
Do I *really* need this online storage. No. But it is convenient, and since I'm 'stucked' with it, I'm using it whenever appropriate or useful.
"- You can do whatever you want! - It's been so long since I heard those words, I don't know what they mean anymore. [...] Gambling no longer have any appeal for me, when every day is a risk, cards and dices are not quite as interesting as they used to be"
- Vir & Londo, B5:"Darkness Ascending"
I'd like to see more of these articles on slashdot. Linux don't matter by itself, Macs don't matter themselves, Games don't matter by themselves. It's the ideals and values behind the actual physical incarnation that matters. The voyage is as important as the destination. Nothing is really yours, property is a convenient human invention. This is your life, ending one second at a time. What do you want? Who are you? And why do I keep reading slashdot many times a day?...:-)
FTA: "If you're a fan of a particular CMS or if you're part of a CMS project team, then we're looking for your nominations."
What's more curious is, from the rules: "3. The five open source Content Management Systems with the most nominations will go through to the final 4. The top three will be voted for by a panel of three judges. A final fourth vote will come from the results of a public vote on www.PacktPub.com."
So it seems the number of nominations matters a lot in case of this award, which doesn't necessarily promote quality over popularity.
I also wonder if slashcode itself should be amongst the runners. Slashcode isn't really widely used for various reasons (e.g. installation, perl development, features) and it's not like if 5000$ would make any difference to slash developers (I'm wrong?). Which makes me ask what are the requisite features a CMS must have to be considered a CMS. Agreeing on some definitions would be useful for such a contest.
The EU Commission is proceeding to an Open Consultation on RFID. From the PR: "We need to build a society-wide consensus on the future of RFID. We need to ensure that RFID technology delivers on its economic potential and to create the right opportunities for its use for the wider public good, while ensuring that citizens remain in control of their data."
I agree, I'm one amongst many who read slashdot for the comments. Slashdot is no ordinary blog especially because of its comment moderation engine.
I launched slashgeo.org 9 months ago. Since we don't have enough participating users yet (even after over 1 million hits), geospatial professionals don't come to see us for the comments, but also for the story selection done by the "editors". Of course you can browse RSS feeds, but it's less time consuming when a bunch of folks decides for you what's worthed to be shared. Reading/. ensures I don't miss anything important in the tech world. This system is imperfect, but it's the best we have so far.
Anyone intereted in the geomatics of car navigation will probably find (shameless plug) slashgeo.org very useful. There's a Transportation topic. Using this story (slashdot's dupe;-), will get more links regarding geocoding photos. And you can read this interesting story about Navigating using photos.
But I know/. readers are sometimes lazy.. (I am!;-) here's a part of the article (from last March! slashdot's late;-): "Navman's latest wheeze is this GPS in-car Sat Nav device that will take you to your destination using only the power of photos. Snap a photo of - say - your mum's house on your next visit using the in-built camera, and the unit will record the co-ordinates."
"forming of an equivilant of the Military-Industrial_Complex"
Forming? Isn't military, industrial and space technology already having close ties? You're probacly right: the military and big corps may benefit (again) from NASA-money. I'm not sure if it's a bad thing or not. If it was just me, I'd considerably reduce military spending and put it in industry & space tech, but this has more to do with social values than how you try to foster innovation (such as promising prizes to out-source development and still get the benefits).
Where's the GeoRSS feed?
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The story is misleading. I feel like the submitter does not know what GeoRSS is. Which reminds me, there has never been any story on slashdot regarding GeoRSS at all, which surprises me (and yes, I did submit some but they all got refused:-)
The first place to start is on georss.org, but you can also read the buzzy OGC press release. From which you'll learn: "A number of organizations have already implemented GeoRSS in open source and commercial mapping, blogging and other software products. Yahoo and Microsoft have expressed interest. Raj Singh, Director of OGC's Interoperability Programs and one of the original team that created GeoRSS explains why, "We designed GeoRSS to be easily implemented in software. Once GeoRSS is part of an application, it allows just about anyone to point a GeoRSS enabled feed at GeoRSS enabled software and instantly make a map.""
But this doesn't tell you what GeoRSS is and why the story's summary is misleading. You can read this article about GeoRSS and read more about the georss standard woes here.
GeoRSS is geospatially-aware RSS. There is a lot of applications, see the links above, like geotagging news items or sensors or podcasts or... I haven't seen any georss in the links above, only mashups and funny pictures. (maybe I should look harder?:-)
(now I'm getting off-topic to flickr and Yahoo!, but in order to add important information to my parent post, I dare face the mods...;-)
There's seem to be some confusion. A lot of people I told about the free version of Google Earth not being allowed in a business environment quickly forget the "free" in my sentence:-) If you haven't read the links I provided in the parent post, the Ogle Earth bog also tells us: "The EULA for the Free and Plus version of Google Earth 4.0 has had a slight reorganization, with a crucial sentence getting promoted nearer to the top.". This means the smallest amount you must pay is 400$US for Google Earth Pro (unless you're ready for the Enterprise version?;-).
This is very interesting. An important part of the "web-mapping war" relates to two important characteristics: (1) how the API are complete and easy to use and what's the licence, and (2) how well Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, Ask, etc. successfully integrates many services together. It is not only about satellite imagery resolution, it's also about the API and licenses and services integration.
About the new commercial use for Yahoo! Maps and API (from slashgeo): "Yahoo! Maps now allowing commercial use. From Yahoo!: "Until today, the APIs were available only for non-commercial use unless you applied for an exception. The concept of commercial and non-commercial has gone away and exceptions are no longer necessary in most cases. We have given you explicit Usage Policies to help guide you. Whether on your business website, blog or personal site, you no longer have to ask for permission." There's also a new Official Yahoo! Maps blog"
But that's not the end. Starting this week, the new Google Earth licence does not allow you to install Google Earth at work at all, even for personal use. Again from slashgeo: "The Ogle Earth blog indicates that if you use Google Earth at work (the free version), you're in illegality. From the site: "1. USE OF SOFTWARE The Software is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Software or the geographical information made available for display using the Software, or any prints or screen outputs generated with the Software in any commercial or business environment or for any commercial or business purposes for yourself or any third parties."
Why do you believe this is flaming? I just want to share the right information. Sorry if I sounded agressive. I'm not:-)
In my first post of this thread, it is specifically specified that those restrictions applies to the free version of Google Earth. So what I said was true. As far as I've been told (but haven't confirmed myself), you do not need the Pro version (400$), the Google Earth Plus version, which is only 20$, is business-environment friendly. (there's 4 different versions of GE...)
Read the tens of geospatial blogs, they all agree: it is said if you're in a business environment you can't install the software. Simple as this. The links I provided in my original post provide even more links that all confirm what I just told you...
(and no, I'm not happy about this decision either;-) And yes, I admit, I was off-topic...
I know I'm a little off-topic, but (from my own slashgeo website): The Ogle Earth blog indicates that if you use Google Earth at work (the free version), you're in illegality. From the site: "1. USE OF SOFTWARE The Software is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Software or the geographical information made available for display using the Software, or any prints or screen outputs generated with the Software in any commercial or business environment or for any commercial or business purposes for yourself or any third parties."
The EULA changed with the new version launched this week. You simply have to buy one of the other 3 (paying) available versions of GE.
The challenge is not about methods to desalinize (there's plenty of methods), it's about finding a method which requires very little energy (and thus money) that it becomes advantageous to proceed to desalinization in the first place...
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a mash-up of internally developed software, made-to-order hardware, artificial intelligence, obsession with performance, and an unorthodox approach to people management
;-) In my industry, mashups mainly (only?) applies to maps...
At first, I though the word 'mashup' was misused, but this wikipedia entry for Mashup tells me I'm somewhat wrong. Somewhat because there's no application involved. But it doesn't matter, misusing a word can be seen as writing with style
You'll get much more information here for Flickr and other photo geotagging tools. It includes stories about loc.alize.us, geotagged photos browsing in Google Earth, Picasa photos in Google Earth, see this specific story on geocoding photos with the numerous related stories, Flickrmap.com, etc. Yup, this is a shameless plug, but hey, slashgeo does really provide information on the topic (and there's no ads by the way).
There's Microsoft's Live Local and Yahoo! Maps that are also data-filled. But you're right, data is the next intel inside. You can look at OpenStreetMap, the best open data project amongst the community.
Those interesting in the topics should take a look at the Google Maps Hack book (review here).
Anyone whom have interest in Google Maps API must take a look at the numerous alternatives. Which includes OpenLayers.org (which just released v2.0). There are various other alternatives, all with different levels of interoperability and compatibility with OGC standards. On the subject, see slashgeo's web mapping section.
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Interesting politically? You bet.
See these two stories on China's Compass program. In short: China is launching a GPS competitor. Yes, in addition to GLONASS, GALILEO and GPS satellites. Oh, they're also interested in environmental remote sensing now...
I'm surprised no one mentioned the iDisk so far in this thread (as far as my search could tell).
.mac email address that all my relatives use. (They need a dramatic improvement of the dot-mac services and features to make it worthed)
I'm happy to see Microsoft providing competition in this area. I am a subscriber of Apple ".mac" with iDisk, providing 1 gig of online storage. I must say, I'm rather disapointed to the service, it just doesn't make sense when compared to the price tag. I'm pseudo locked-in by the
To go back to the online storage, iDisk is somewhat good. It synchronize itself in the background. Nothing to do, nothing to understand. This is convenient. It has a public folder. You can even allow anonymous surfers to write in your public folder! It is very well integrated with Apple iLife software, such as iWeb (html pages) and Garageband (Podcasts) and Backup (which will unbdoubtly disapear with Leopard's Time Machine). My prefered featured might by the synchronisation with Backup.
I personally use this personnal storage to swap files between home and work. Yes, I could use a USB drive (I have a 1 gig USB key), but it is just faster using my iDisk! (added to the fact that our Debian machines at work have difficulties mounting USB drives...) Oh yeah, this reminds me, you can mount Apple's iDisk on macs and windows as a file system, but also on Linux machines (I did a google search some time ago and found a sourceforge project (afaicr) allowing this).
Do I *really* need this online storage. No. But it is convenient, and since I'm 'stucked' with it, I'm using it whenever appropriate or useful.
http://www.gewar.net/
http://www.googleearthing.com/
and
http://googleearthgame.com/
And the strangest... the Google Maps Flight Simulator
Shameless plug but entirely on-topic, slashgeo.org discuss mashups regularly. You'll find more articles on mashups here.
This includes:
Mashups are fool's gold?, a ZDNet article.
Making money from mashups, a Search Engine Watch article.
The fatal flaw of Mashups, another ZDNet article.
Mapping a Revolution with Mashups, a CNET article.
And so on...
"- You can do whatever you want!
... :-)
- It's been so long since I heard those words, I don't know what they mean
anymore. [...] Gambling no longer have any appeal for me, when every day
is a risk, cards and dices are not quite as interesting as they used to be"
- Vir & Londo, B5:"Darkness Ascending"
I'd like to see more of these articles on slashdot. Linux don't matter by itself, Macs don't matter themselves, Games don't matter by themselves. It's the ideals and values behind the actual physical incarnation that matters. The voyage is as important as the destination. Nothing is really yours, property is a convenient human invention. This is your life, ending one second at a time. What do you want? Who are you? And why do I keep reading slashdot many times a day?
The article is a little short, I would have liked more more more!! :-)
May I suggest Information Architecture from Peter Morville. He is also co-founder and president of the Information Architecture Institute.
May I also suggest taking a look at Prefuse, an open source project to interactively vizualize organized information (still in beta however).
FTA: "If you're a fan of a particular CMS or if you're part of a CMS project team, then we're looking for your nominations."
What's more curious is, from the rules: "3. The five open source Content Management Systems with the most nominations will go through to the final 4. The top three will be voted for by a panel of three judges. A final fourth vote will come from the results of a public vote on www.PacktPub.com."
So it seems the number of nominations matters a lot in case of this award, which doesn't necessarily promote quality over popularity.
I also wonder if slashcode itself should be amongst the runners. Slashcode isn't really widely used for various reasons (e.g. installation, perl development, features) and it's not like if 5000$ would make any difference to slash developers (I'm wrong?). Which makes me ask what are the requisite features a CMS must have to be considered a CMS. Agreeing on some definitions would be useful for such a contest.
The EU Commission is proceeding to an Open Consultation on RFID. From the PR: "We need to build a society-wide consensus on the future of RFID. We need to ensure that RFID technology delivers on its economic potential and to create the right opportunities for its use for the wider public good, while ensuring that citizens remain in control of their data."
I agree, I'm one amongst many who read slashdot for the comments. Slashdot is no ordinary blog especially because of its comment moderation engine.
/. ensures I don't miss anything important in the tech world. This system is imperfect, but it's the best we have so far.
I launched slashgeo.org 9 months ago. Since we don't have enough participating users yet (even after over 1 million hits), geospatial professionals don't come to see us for the comments, but also for the story selection done by the "editors". Of course you can browse RSS feeds, but it's less time consuming when a bunch of folks decides for you what's worthed to be shared. Reading
"Wi-Fi sounds like a big deal if you're comparing the player to the wire-bound iPod."
Not exactly the same result, but AirTunes provides something most of us simply want...
Anyone intereted in the geomatics of car navigation will probably find (shameless plug) slashgeo.org very useful. There's a Transportation topic. Using this story (slashdot's dupe ;-), will get more links regarding geocoding photos. And you can read this interesting story about Navigating using photos.
/. readers are sometimes lazy.. (I am! ;-) here's a part of the article (from last March! slashdot's late ;-): "Navman's latest wheeze is this GPS in-car Sat Nav device that will take you to your destination using only the power of photos. Snap a photo of - say - your mum's house on your next visit using the in-built camera, and the unit will record the co-ordinates."
But I know
"forming of an equivilant of the Military-Industrial_Complex"
Forming? Isn't military, industrial and space technology already having close ties? You're probacly right: the military and big corps may benefit (again) from NASA-money. I'm not sure if it's a bad thing or not. If it was just me, I'd considerably reduce military spending and put it in industry & space tech, but this has more to do with social values than how you try to foster innovation (such as promising prizes to out-source development and still get the benefits).
I would not be surprised to see Yahoo! instant messenger to integrate with Yahoo! Maps. That's a trend that MS, Google and Yahoo are definitely focussing on. You can already map your Jabber contacts on Google Maps or Google Earth. Yahoo! Maps licensing restrictions were also alleviated considerably during last week's Where 2.0 conference.
The story is misleading. I feel like the submitter does not know what GeoRSS is. Which reminds me, there has never been any story on slashdot regarding GeoRSS at all, which surprises me (and yes, I did submit some but they all got refused :-)
:-)
The first place to start is on georss.org, but you can also read the buzzy OGC press release. From which you'll learn: "A number of organizations have already implemented GeoRSS in open source and commercial mapping, blogging and other software products. Yahoo and Microsoft have expressed interest. Raj Singh, Director of OGC's Interoperability Programs and one of the original team that created GeoRSS explains why, "We designed GeoRSS to be easily implemented in software. Once GeoRSS is part of an application, it allows just about anyone to point a GeoRSS enabled feed at GeoRSS enabled software and instantly make a map.""
But this doesn't tell you what GeoRSS is and why the story's summary is misleading. You can read this article about GeoRSS and read more about the georss standard woes here.
GeoRSS is geospatially-aware RSS. There is a lot of applications, see the links above, like geotagging news items or sensors or podcasts or... I haven't seen any georss in the links above, only mashups and funny pictures. (maybe I should look harder?
(now I'm getting off-topic to flickr and Yahoo!, but in order to add important information to my parent post, I dare face the mods... ;-)
:-) If you haven't read the links I provided in the parent post, the Ogle Earth bog also tells us: "The EULA for the Free and Plus version of Google Earth 4.0 has had a slight reorganization, with a crucial sentence getting promoted nearer to the top.". This means the smallest amount you must pay is 400$US for Google Earth Pro (unless you're ready for the Enterprise version? ;-).
There's seem to be some confusion. A lot of people I told about the free version of Google Earth not being allowed in a business environment quickly forget the "free" in my sentence
This is very interesting. An important part of the "web-mapping war" relates to two important characteristics: (1) how the API are complete and easy to use and what's the licence, and (2) how well Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, Ask, etc. successfully integrates many services together. It is not only about satellite imagery resolution, it's also about the API and licenses and services integration.
;-)
About the new commercial use for Yahoo! Maps and API (from slashgeo):
" Yahoo! Maps now allowing commercial use. From Yahoo!: "Until today, the APIs were available only for non-commercial use unless you applied for an exception. The concept of commercial and non-commercial has gone away and exceptions are no longer necessary in most cases. We have given you explicit Usage Policies to help guide you. Whether on your business website, blog or personal site, you no longer have to ask for permission." There's also a new Official Yahoo! Maps blog "
But that's not the end. Starting this week, the new Google Earth licence does not allow you to install Google Earth at work at all, even for personal use. Again from slashgeo:
"The Ogle Earth blog indicates that if you use Google Earth at work (the free version), you're in illegality. From the site: "1. USE OF SOFTWARE The Software is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Software or the geographical information made available for display using the Software, or any prints or screen outputs generated with the Software in any commercial or business environment or for any commercial or business purposes for yourself or any third parties. "
Oh yeah, and unrelated to the story but still very interesting, you can geocode your Picasa photos using Google Earth. I'll stop there. See my sig to learn more
Why do you believe this is flaming? I just want to share the right information. Sorry if I sounded agressive. I'm not :-)
In my first post of this thread, it is specifically specified that those restrictions applies to the free version of Google Earth. So what I said was true. As far as I've been told (but haven't confirmed myself), you do not need the Pro version (400$), the Google Earth Plus version, which is only 20$, is business-environment friendly. (there's 4 different versions of GE...)
Sorry to say, but *you* didn't read the EULA ;-)
;-)
Read the tens of geospatial blogs, they all agree: it is said if you're in a business environment you can't install the software. Simple as this. The links I provided in my original post provide even more links that all confirm what I just told you...
(and no, I'm not happy about this decision either
And yes, I admit, I was off-topic...
... you can't even install it.
I know I'm a little off-topic, but (from my own slashgeo website):
The Ogle Earth blog indicates that if you use Google Earth at work (the free version), you're in illegality. From the site: "1. USE OF SOFTWARE The Software is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Software or the geographical information made available for display using the Software, or any prints or screen outputs generated with the Software in any commercial or business environment or for any commercial or business purposes for yourself or any third parties."
The EULA changed with the new version launched this week. You simply have to buy one of the other 3 (paying) available versions of GE.
The challenge is not about methods to desalinize (there's plenty of methods), it's about finding a method which requires very little energy (and thus money) that it becomes advantageous to proceed to desalinization in the first place...
Yes, you're missing something. But a lot of people are, believe me ;-)
There are 4 versions of Google Earth. Most people know about the free version only. The other Google Earth versions gives you way more features, including GIS-like features.