Programming/Dev

May 7, 2008general, LBS, Programming/Dev

Loopt’s Brian Knapp talks about privacy issues

E-Commerce Times has posted an interview with Brian Knapp, a VP at Loopt, the mobile social networking and mapping software company. The article is actually focused on how Loopt deals […]
March 7, 2008general, LBS, Programming/Dev, Software

Core Location…Wow that was quick

Was it just back in October that I was pondering how long it would take Apple to introduce Core Location to provide developers a simple hook into location information for […]
February 25, 2008general, Programming/Dev, Software

Sony’s PhyreEngine – cross platform game development tools

Microsoft’s XNA announcements were not the only news to come out of the Game Developers Conference related to user community development tools for games. Sony will be releasing their PhyreEngine […]
February 20, 2008general, Programming/Dev, Software

Microsoft releases dev software to students

In their journey to get everyone hooked on their dev tools, Microsoft has rolled out DreamSpark, a site where students can download: Visual Studio 2008 Expression Studio Windows Server 2003 […]
January 30, 2008general, Programming/Dev, Software, WebMapping

Globe Glider – Try some geo-browsing

Our reader Ed always sends us great links to cool applications and projects, and Globe Glider is another great find. According to the site, it’s a “geo-browser” with an interface […]
January 24, 2008general, Human Geography, Programming/Dev

Highlighting a few geospatial podcasts

I am, as usual, a bit behind on the blogs and podcasts. But as I am catching up (aka procrastinating writing) I wanted to highlight a couple of podcasts that […]
January 15, 2008Events, general, Programming/Dev

Second Annual ArcGIS Server Code Challenge

Our good friend and GIS Day Mate (GDM for short) Rick Lawson sent me a note about the 2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. If you’re the programming sort and have […]
January 8, 2008general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

Google, Facebook join DataPortability workgroup

DataPortability announced today that Google, Facebook, and Plaxo have joined the DataPortability Workgroup on creating open standards for social networking data. DataPortability’s mission is ” To put all existing technologies […]
October 12, 2007general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Japanese researchers continue to blur the virtual-real world boundary

A couple of projects by Japanese researchers show that work in the area of augmented or mixed reality is really pushing the boundary between the real and virtual worlds. Michihiko […]
July 6, 2007general, Programming/Dev

4D Cities – photo-based 3D reconstructions of urban change

I just read an article at NewScientistTech about a cool software application called 4D Cities, developed by Frank Dellaert and Grant Schindler of Georgia Institute of Technology and Sing Bing […]