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October 12, 2007general, General, GeographyAwareness

Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Change

Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I think this is one of the first Nobel Peace Prizes awarded for an […]
October 11, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Sim City and Global Warming

Ever wanted to know how Global Warming might affect your lavish Sim City models? Well the good folks at Sim City are letting you find out! You can choose what […]
October 10, 2007general, Human Geography

Historical GIS in Great Britain

I just finished my oral exams and passed, so just that little hurdle of a dissertation between me and those three very expensive and time consuming letters: PhD. One of […]
October 9, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Google in a day

Talk about taking over the (virtual) world…Google has acquired Jaiku and is working with Multiverse and both were announced in a day. The Jaiku purchase is a curiosity as they […]
October 8, 2007avsp, Contest, general

GAW contest – Week 2

On to week 2’s contest question. This week are curious about Space, not space. Click through to the answer the question. If you haven’t answered the question from week 1 […]
October 7, 2007general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 116

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 116 September 30, 2007 Main Topic: Interview about Schmap.com Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
October 6, 2007Conference, ESRIUC, general, Podcast

AVSP Roadshow – ESRIUC 07 – Vendors 1

This audio is from the the showroom floor at the 2007 ESRI User Conference. We speak to folks from Lead Dog, ET Spatial, GeoPrize, and Pixia. Click here to download […]
October 6, 2007general, Hardware

You know you want one

So, the next multitouch to market is Jeff Hann’s wall (first shown at the Ted conference a couple of years ago). I am not sure that at $100,000 it is […]
October 5, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

$1 billion invested in virtual worlds

Virtual Worlds Management, the organizers of the Virtual Worlds Conference this past March in New York and the Virtual Worlds Fall Conference next week in San Jose, CA, recently conducted […]
October 4, 2007general, space (not spatial)

50 years since Sputnik

I’m sure you’ve probably already seen it, but I have to give a shout out for the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial orbiting satellite. […]