BeerMapping.com offers a service that focuses on connecting people who prefer a decent pint with the breweries and brewpubs offering those beverages.

Google’s confirming publicly that they believe the current Internet may become choked by online video. This is related to a barrier to Google’s growth — one of the only serious ones — that has been nagging at me for some time: globally, they don’t own the pipes. Big utility monopolies still hold a lot of cards around the world. The smart money would likely partner with them.

I recall first hearing about the initial Beta last year and thought to myself… WOW…

AOL and TopCoder, Inc., today announced the Web AIM Mashup Competition. Web AIM is AOL’s new APIs that enables users to integrate AIM features directly into web sites and online communities.

The BT Developer’s Challenge is encouraging developers to create a mashup using some of the tools available via programmableweb.

IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be.

This real-time tracking mashup from n2yo.com is totally awesome.

A site reader recently tipped me off about globefeed.com. Some people look at this app as a google map chat, however, the developers feel its much more than that.

Optimize Magazine has an article by Howard Greenstein on Enterprise 2.0:

Wow, talk about your tasteless Google Maps Mashups:

I recently came accross this very cool game called Geosense. It’s a clever, fun game that uses a map [of course] and tests your knowledge by seeing if you can locate cities in the World within 10 seconds.

Riddle me this. What do you get when you combine Google News RSS feeds, your zip code and Google Maps?