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Jaiku - One Of The First Apps On The Google App Engine

This interesting update comes via the Jaiku blog... Today we’re taking off our welding goggles to announce Jaiku will be one of the first apps to run on the new Google App Engine. See also www.jaiku.com App Engine is an interesting concept (I'm not terribly familiar with it) but its free for developers to get started and seems like a real time (and money) saver...

Early Registration For Google I/O Ends April 4th

A reminder, early registration for Google I/O ends April 4th - this Friday! Recall, I/O is a two-day, in- depth gathering for developers to share knowledge about Google's own developer products and web application development in general. Google I/O will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 28th, and Thursday, May 29th, 2008.See http://code.google.com/events/ioComments

Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks

Here's details of an event of interest next month... Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks - 2008/01/23 14:18Event Fee: FreeWeb site: http://web.meetup.com/49/Event date: Tuesday February 19, 2008 @ 7:00pm - 9:00pmEvent location: Menlo Park, CADescription: We are thrilled to present a very special group from NASA Ames Research Center – World Wind! Our Meetup group is about sharing, teaching, learning, and networking around current and future web-based geospatial and social networking technology.

Weather Channel on Google Maps/Earth

I'm a google gadget freak... I admit it. My iGoogle homepage is so jam packed with cool stuff, so much so its getting hard to locate the gadgets I need! This week another very cool Map driven mapplet and gadget were made available from the Weather Channel - now weather on demand is even more accessible to me.

Nokia Getting Greener

Nokia is a Global leader in their market, no questioning that. So, perhaps their move to make "greener" more environmentally sound decisions in their business processes will spread to others... indeed they are a good role model for action.

Google Expands Contests to Pre-College Kids

Building on the success of the Summer of Code Contests, Google has expanded the contests to now include the pre-College community. The contest is open to students age 13 and older who have not yet begun university studies, and contestants will be able to claim tasks until 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time on January 22, 2008. We hope that students who participate will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the future, and we look forward to announcing the grand-prize winners on February 11.

Great Idea for an Event Organizer

What a great idea for an event organizer... I've often wondered why event planners don't come out with "official" tags for people to tag entries on blogs, photos on flickr, videos on youtube etc... (many people, including yours truly post photos and create our own tags) but here's a cool idea that I never thought of.. what about networking groups on LinkedIn, facebook and others? That's exactly what Nokia is doing for their Nokia World event... attendees can coonect by being accepted into these special groups... nice idea!

VibeAgent: Travel Mashup With Social Networking

I read about this one in the USA Today... a new travel mashup that incorporates a little social networking enabling users to setup a more web20-ish profile, save trips, search for travel related info, join groups etc...

Simple Web Mapping

Imagine being able to do all your analysis and cartography in ArcView of ArcGIS and then get your map online in minutes with no programming and no hassles... even I can do it ;0) I've been a big fan of Alta Geomatics' solutions for years... ever since I tested the ImageMapper for ArcView! You only need ArcGIS and the HTML ImageMapper extension to publish maps online. Users do all the cartography in ArcGIS. You don't need to be a system or server administrator or a programmer to publish your maps online. No software needs to be installed on the server.

Facebook Founder Prediction on Google

At CTIA Wireless IT recently, facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz was on stage and left us with an interesting message as he closed his keynote session.