A week ago Friday, I saw that the fotowoosh site had gone live, and I haven’t had a chance to sit down and blog it until today. Licensing technology that was developed at Carnegie-Mellon, fotowoosh is similar to Photosynth, from Microsoft Research. fotowoosh will also allow you to generate 3D models from a 2D image,
Getting Started with Google Maps and ASP .NET
For those of you who are developers and work with ASP .NET, you might be interested in a nice article from the WebSphere Journal site written by Jeevan Murkoth that goes over the basics of the Google Maps ASP .NET control and gives you a nice “Getting Started” walkthrough for a simple implementation. I keep
SensorMap from Microsoft Research
I’ve been waiting awhile to check this out, but Microsoft Research has finally gotten their SensorMap project portal up and running as part of their larger SenseWeb project. Basically, SensorMap lets you bring in real-time data feeds, including video, and link them to the Windows Live Local map plaform. So far, they’ve got some traffic
CarbonCloud from The Carbon Project
In the May issue of The Carbon Project’s newsletter, The Carbon Project announced that the latest release of CarbonTools, CarbonTools PROâ„¢, will launch at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Boston, MA on July 11-13, 2006. Demos will include a new p2p social networking application called CarbonCloud. According to the CarbonCloud blog, which also recently
Google Earth and Virtual Worlds
Stephan over at OgleEarth links to a post by Avi Bar-Zeev, one of the Keyhole co-founders who also worked for Linden Labs (makers of Second Life), about Google Earth, what he feels it would take to achieve something like the metaverse, and why we just aren’t there yet. It’s a pretty long post, but you
MapCruncher – Microsoft’s new prototype mashup creator
I was checking out the Microsoft Research news, and I saw this press release about MapCruncher, a new prototype that helps users make mash-ups with MSN Virtual Earth of course. It is downloadable as a ZIP file, and I have downloaded it myself to play with during quiet moments at our conference. So, head over
Telcontar offers a new AJAX-based mapping API
Telcontar, a well-known location-based services company, has announced the release of their new AJAX-based API, which is available for download from the Telcontar Developer Zone. , a free online service that allows developers to create applications that utilize Telcontar’s Drill Down Server and other features. Telcontar has emerged as a major player in LBS and
Google Summer of Code 2006
Google’s Summer of Code 2006 is program that gives “student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period.” It’s the 2nd year for
OGC Catalogue Services Specification – Request for Comment
OGC has put out a Request for Comment for a new candidate OGC standard. It is the Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.1 – ISO Metadata Application Profile. From the press release: ” Catalogue services are the key technology for locating, managing and maintaining distributed geo-resources (i.e. geospatial data, applications and services). With OGC catalogue services, client
Quake 4 SDK
Over the last few years the idea of serious games has come on to the scene as computer game technology has outstripped anything that can be created in a university or other research environment, it has even spawned its own conference (that I am going to try to attend this year). It is obvious that
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