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October 2, 2006general, General

Netflix offers $1 million prize for a better way to recommend movies

For those of you who don’t know, Netflix is the online DVD movie rental company that now sport 5.2 million subscribers. They are looking for ways to improve their movie […]
October 2, 2006general, General

Will mean more later

This won’t mean much to you until you hear the difference for yourself, but Gigavox, the business arm of IT Conversations, has released a GREAT little tool called Levelator that […]
October 1, 2006Cartography, general, WebMapping

TeleAtlas MapInsight – users help improve data accuracy

TeleAtlas has a new service in limited release – MapInsight – where users can report errors in TeleAtlas’ addressing data layers. After a year of all those stories about drivers […]
October 1, 2006general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 63

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 63 October 1, 2006 Main Topic:The Permanence of lines Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
October 1, 2006enhanced, general, Podcast

AVSP Episode 63 – Enhanced

Main topic: The permenance of a line. News: Mapinsight, Royal Society journals, and subway-by-smell Click here to download the enhanced version
October 1, 2006avsp, general

GAW 2006 Contest

Our next contest is in honor of the Geography Awareness Week topic…Migration: The human journey. We want to see where our mascot GEOrge can end up in world as he […]
September 29, 2006enhanced, general, Podcast

AVSP Episode 62 – Enhanced

AVSP Episode 62 in AAC format. Main topic: Sustainable Development. Click here to download the enhanced version
September 28, 2006Gadgets, general, Navigation

Surveyors to get long lunch in 2011 or 2012

Engadget has a post on some research that suggests that there will be an almost 90 percent loss of GPS signals for a number of hours at the height of […]
September 27, 2006general, GeographyAwareness

MyWonderfulWorld Radio ad

On the home from work/school today I heard one of the radio ads from MyWonderfulWorld.com. I have to say that it was kind of odd and very cool to hear the […]
September 27, 2006Gadgets, general, VirtualEnvironments

Weblo.com – What is the point

When Sue first mentioned Weblo to me last week it seemed kind of cool. Weblo is a site that lets you buy virtual property, but unlike most games, Weblo is […]