Microsoft, Google Chart New Map Views
Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps released new ways of looking at the world through their products at the Where 2.0 conference.
Google News May Introduce Video Component
As a daily user of Google News, I’m interested in what will happen to it – for better, for worse, or for just plain different. According to a recent interview with Nathan Stoll, one of Google’s product managers, there may be a lot of changes in store, including the introduction of video.
“Google News May Introduce Video Component”
New Version of FeedDemon Released
FeedDemon is the Windows desktop RSS application I’ve been using for the past few years.
And for the past few months, I’ve been testing the various betas of the upcoming new version 2.5.
Google Maps Gives Users Street View
Never mind trying to spot your house with Google Earth – residents in a few American cities can now try to spot themselves with Google Maps. A new feature called Street View represents those areas exactly as a pedestrian would see them.
Google Maps Street View
Well it looks like the previous rumours of Google Maps Street View are coming true, Google today announced at the Where 2.0 conference, that they have added a new feature called “Street View” in certain locations on Google Maps. As well as this, starting today, Google is also adding developer-created gadgets called “Mapplets” to Google Maps.
Review: Trackback Spider
What Does Trackback Spider Do?
From what I have read on the pre-release materials, it sends trackback notifications to create one-way links to your website.
That means:-
VeriSign’s CEO Steps Down
It’s the end of an era at VeriSign – Stratton Sclavos, the company’s CEO, has resigned. “[T]he leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world” will now be managed by William A. Roper, Jr.
Blogging To Save World From Flu Pandemic
Just because the bird flu has flown away from the headlines doesn’t mean it is gone for good. Participants in a blog summit run by the US Department of Health and Human Services will try to address the issues surrounding a potential outbreak.
Googlers Break Away, Build Ooyala
There are probably no more than 500 words on the entire site, but the first sentence of ooyala’s “About Us” section sure gets one point across: “The company was started by former Google engineers and product managers.” That was originally written in bold, by the way.
New Google Image Search Categories
Last week a Google engineer told us “The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it.” And now, Google Images allows you to restrict your search to a specific category – albeit in an “unofficial” mode only – and one of these categories may well be powered by actual image recognition (as opposed to textual keyword analysis). Right now, the available modes are (at least) the following: