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• December 16, 2014Data, GIS_Software, Programming/Dev, Social Networking, Software, WebMapping

  How Google Changed the 20 Most Popular Websites Since 1996

  Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump from The Intersect created infographics to show how websites have changed, “From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites […]

• April 22, 2014EarthDay, Social Networking

  Take a #GlobalSelfie with NASA on Earth Day

  Celebrate Earth Day!  by taking a #GlobalSelfie.  It’s remote sensing, it’s geospatial, it’s VerySpatial, it’s fun!  From the NASA website on EARTH RIGHT NOW. NASA invites you — and everyone else […]

• December 17, 2013Education, Events, GeographyBlogs, Human Geography, Social Networking

  United Nation’s International Migrants Day and GIS

  December 18th is the United Nation’s International Migrants Day to recognize the efforts, contributions, and rights of migrants worldwide.  Migrant workers and migration has had a natural fit with geography […]

• August 29, 2013Education, Social Networking

  Smartphones,Urban Legends, and Grandmas

  The geospatial community is so used to the growing use of geospatial technologies that it is easy to assume that everyone around you has been as immersed in how it […]

• May 31, 2013Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking

  ESRI and National Day of Civic Hacking

  I must issue a mea culpa because when I first looked at the sponsors and participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking June 1 – 2, 2013  I saw no […]

• May 1, 2013Education, GIS_Software, Social Networking, Software

  What is Your Real Geospatial Age?

  By now almost everyone with a computer and some spare time has taken the Harvard Mouse Click Age Test, which tries to determine a person’s age by how proficient they are […]

• October 11, 2012Cool Stuff, Education, Social Networking

  Geospatial Games and Crowd Sourcing a Catalog

  It’s never too early to get kids interested in geospatial technologies and geography. I was searching for a fun gift for a young kid and ran across the Daily Grommet, […]

• September 27, 2012AugmentedReality, Contest, general, Social Networking

  Geospatial and Marketing Gimmicks

  Many popular news sites, such as the Telegraph, have picked up the story of Nestle UK’s  campaign that embeds GPS trackers in candy bars, comparing it to the Golden Ticket […]

• October 16, 2010general, LBS, Social Networking, space (not spatial)

  NASA and Gowalla team up for a nationwide scavenger hunt

  For all of you out there who use Gowalla as your mobile location-based social sharing app, you’ll want to check out the new partnership between NASA and Gowalla that includes […]

• September 10, 2010general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking

  Urbagrams – Mapping the social city

  In order to investigate the idea of a social archipelago, the notion that our cities are “fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows […]