That’s right, IBM is going Web 2.0. On Thursday at a PHP conference in New York, IBM announced their own Enterprise Mashup, which will use web services to provide news, weather, traffic, wiki technology, and yes, maps. Rod Smith, IBM’s VP of emerging internet technologies, acknowledged the rapid growth of Web 2.0-related applications and predicted [...]
Adena over at AllPoints Blog posted about MapPros! this morning, and I also think it’s a great idea. I especially like the profile of people actually working with geospatial technologies, and I hope they are able to expand these sections in the future. You should definitely check this site out, and I think I am [...]
I can’t speak for Sue, but I had a great time at Where 2.0. We met quite a few people that we had talked to in the past and hope to meet the ones we missed at the ESRI UC if they are there. Hopefully there will be another geobloggers meet up at the UC, [...]
These are some of the discussions we had on Tuesday at Where 2.0 Click to directly download Where 2.0 Day 1 Episode
We went around the exhibitor hall on Tuesday to hear about new announcements and existing products from various companies. Click to directly download Where 2.0 Exhibitors Episode
We just got back from the Where Fair and are crashing for the night. We had quit a few GREAT talks with folks, speakers and participants, today, but I don’t think that I will have any audio ready to post tonight as I will be asleep in about 20 mins I would like to say [...]
A Phd student at the University of Calgary’s Interactions Laboratory has come up with some pretty cool new interactive tools for Google Earth and Warcraft III (not at the same time). He’s using a tabletop environment to control how you interact with Google Earth. You can do much more hands on type interaction with the [...]
For people in the interior of countries, the difference between a category 2 hurricane and a category 3 hurricane might not be all that aparent. That’s why the good people at the Associated Press have hosted this handy, dandy Hurricane Simulator! The simulator features a 3D model of some trees, a house, and a mobile [...]
I am going to try to keep the ‘tradition’ going that we started at the Dev Summit and live blog the opening keynotes as Where 2.0 kicks off. While we wait for the start I will mention that we will be posting audio nightly, but I doubt if we will get it all up before [...]
The BBC is working with others to predict climate change and they want your help! The climate prediction tool runs within the BOINC environment just like SETI@home and others. This software takes advantage of free CPU cycles on client machines to crunch numbers for large data sets…isn’t distributed computing grand. If you have time head [...]
