Normally I don’t care for Budweiser commercials. They’re amusing, but they tend to stick to variations on a single joke. This one, however, features swearing — and that’s almost always funny.
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Where 2.0 notes 2
More notes from day 1 of Where 2.0 – the day’s over and there’s a lot to take in.
The other big Google announcement was Google Mapplets. The best way to describe Mapplets is to use Google’s words: “mashup of mashups”. Meaning you can take a services built on Google Maps (choose from 1000’s) and combine them for (what’s likely to be) some really interesting results. There’s more in-depth detail over at the Google Lat Long Blog.
Garmin (my travel companions) announced our developer site with a focus on Garmin Communicator – a browser plugin that allows websites like Geocaching.com and MotionBased to send and receive GPS data to Garmin devices. Web Services is another tool that opens up the power of MotionBased’s data and tools. Last but not least, Web Drop is (I think) a little hidden gem that allows you to highlight any address on the web, geocode it and send it to a Garmin device with a single click.
That’s all I’m writing for today; I need to cull through my notes before I write about all the other stuff that was announced or discussed today.
Notes from Where 2.0
The first hour of where has been interesting; Google announced today’s launch of StreetView: see it in action. During the presentation, John Hanke from Google ran through a couple of really remarkable examples of the power of Street View, including finding parking in San Fran. He zoomed in on the parking lot, zoomed in on the sign at the the entrance to the parking lot and was close enough to read that the parking lot was open to the public… there’s incredible potential here.
GeoRSS was mentioned in every presentation. Tagging has been a big topic, particularly how to open up tagging users and maintain clean, usable data.
The break’s ending… more news, thoughts, and notes to come.
Where 2.0
I’m heading out for Where 2.0 later this weekend (which includes tacking on a couple days of vaca in San Fran).
Should be an interesting conference with folks from all over online mapping world in attendance; Google, Yahoo, MapQuest, Open Street Mapping, my gang, and many others.
Monday evening’s Ignite Where session sounds like an interesting way to kick off the conference—20 speakers get 5 minutes on stage with 15 seconds per slide to say whatever they want. I definitely want to check it out if we make it to San Jose on time… depends on how long we spend cruising down the PCH.
* update: found more details about the Ignite session on Upcoming.org *
** update 2: found video from an Ignite event in Seattle **
Urban Photo Safari ’07
Grab your camera and mark your calendar…. the 2007 Urban Photo Safari is officially set for Saturday, June 9th. It’s moving to Lawrence this year.
Until the official site is up and running again, you can see photos from past Safaris here.
It’s a free event, so if you’re looking for an excuse to get creative with a camera, there’s nothing quite like it.
Right
Dean may be the only reader of this blog who can appreciate this, but I couldn’t resist:
From the BBC News article, Blair will stand down on 27 June
Shave to Save
Kudos to Dean who volunteered to go bald today. Did he do it for fashion or fame? Nope, he did it for the American Cancer Society’s 2007 Shave to Save event.
As one of the few people at work with a dreamy ‘doo, Dean was on a short list of candidates. We’re all glad he was willing to go under the shears in memory of his Dad and in honor of our good friend Scott Bosworth, who made it to the event in just enough time to step up on stage and take the first swipe: