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.
Apple announced today its unveiling a SDK in February to allow the development of native third-party Applications on the iPhone McAfee comments on a move to create a developer framework for the iPhone...
More news on the open source front today as Autodesk has announced its intent to donate the source code for CS-Map to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
An interesting find in this clever Yahoo! Pipe that mashes up news (topic of your choice) with a Yahoo! map.
Official Google Blog: Put your photos on a map, and Picasa on your phone: A new Picassa option, 'Map My Photos' lets you show exactly where you took your favorite snapshots.
When you share an album with friends, they can see your best photos arrayed on a map (or even Google Earth). It's the perfect way to showcase a memorable road trip or a globe-trotting vacation.
Spotlight on GeoImmersive video from IMC - Terrestrial Views From Every Angle - Since 2005, IMC has been capturing 360 degree georeferenced spherical video of North America's major cities enabling everyone to experience terrestrial views from every angle.
The company, currently getting loads of exposure for providing Google with their cool and sometimes controversial Street View data has been driving the country in VW Bugs housing the IMC Dodeca camera which capture the 360 degree imagery.
Over at the MSDN blogs Virtual Earth program manager Andy McGovern has come up with the following update: "we've been busy poking around the Virtual Earth forums and blogs, listening to corporate customers and mashuppers alike, and coming up with a list of the top features and fixes that would make the best mapping API even better—better for end users, but mainly better for you, the developer. We think you'll like what we've come up with." The following are just some of the new features:
- import polylines and polygons using GeoRSS feeds.
An interesting start to the week as Google's John Hanke offers up an explanation on the recent outcry concerning the company's decision to use pre-Katrina imagery in Google Maps. If you haven't followed the story (we commented as did many others), users recently noticed (and freaked out about) that Google was serving pre-Katrina images.
I recently received an article about the ongoing litigation involving REAL and ReMax agent Diane Sarkisian and the alleged infringement of "Real Estate Search and Location System and Method".
I have to admit, I'm still on the fence as to really believe that Google would actually release a phone but hey, stranger things have happened!