If you're a developer who loves to build mashups - especially map mashups - then you have to check out the library provided by Mapstaction. (And if you're end user, wait until you see the demos!) Mapstraction is library that provides a common API for various mapping APIs already in...
At the Where 2.0 conference today Google announced the availability of a new Flash API for Google Maps. From Flash microsites to embedded media players to beautiful cross-platform AIR apps on the desktop - expect to start seeing interactive Google Maps embedded in a lot of unusual places soon.A substantial...
Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitled "We Need a Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googler Bret Taylor, discussed the difficulty of finding open data sets on the internet, something which could spur innovation, allowing programmers to build new applications the likes of...
British book publishing giant Penguin is carrying out an experiment that takes six books from six different authors and distributes them through new media channels over six weeks. Called We Tell Stories, some people say the campaign is pure evil and others are hailing it as a sign of the...
In an understated post today to the Google Lat Long blog, a major new wrinkle in online mapping was announced. Google Maps can now be edited by anyone. Once signed in with your Google Account, you can change the details or location of any listing on Google Maps, or delete...
Feng-GUI is an interesting heatmap creation service. Unlike click-based heatmaps from Crazy Egg, FuseStats, and others, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on where it thinks the human eye would most likely be attracted. Eye tracking is something that designers have long used to measure the effectiveness of advertising, or design more...
The Windows Live Maps team announced today an update to their mobile browser-based map and search service, m.live.com. The new version includes greater detail in listings, aggregated reviews and photos of restaurants and other businesses, scrollable maps and more. It's a very nice service that warrants more attention in a...
There's been lots of coverage around the web today of the role that social media is playing in reporting about the wildfires in Southern California. Twitter and Google Maps have received the most coverage but there are probably infinite permutations of those two tools and others, as well. One tool...
This week in our Read/WriteWeb Files feature we're taking a look at personalization tools in development at Google. In April of this year Google added a personal touch to their Maps service with the addition of the MyMaps feature that lets anyone create a maps mashup. The feature, though four...
More Google Maps news: Today Google announced a partnership with budget airline Jet Blue that will put Google maps into the seat backs on their airplanes. Sounds sort of silly (so, I can get driving directions to my destination? ... but I'm already flying there!), but I think it's pretty...
Not to be left behind, Google announced their own bit of mapping news at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference today: the debut of 'Street View' maps. The new maps are essentially a 360 panoramic image taken from a specific point on the street (see an example here).The Street View maps are...
There were two developments in the 3D mapping space today. First Microsoft finally launched the 3D version of New York City as part of an expansion of its Virtual Earth maps. Second, Massachusetts-based start up EveryScape launched a technology demo showcasing their own (sort of) 3D map service, which uses...
We wrote about Abdur Chowdhury in our recent coverage of the Open Data 2007 Workshop. Until recently he was running AOL Search, but left to start a new venture. Abdur is an impressive thinker and articulate speaker, with a great track record in the industry. So we decided to take...
It is that time of the month again where the Tizen Store have their "Top 20 Apps". So, let's go through the top 20 apps/games for the Tizen Store in July 2019. In the top spot, it's still WhatsApp Messenger. Now, Facebook has risen from the depths of third place...
Here we are again, to see the best apps and games downloaded for each month, this time in the Tizen Store in June 2019. As we can see from the list below, WhatsApp Messenger has remained in the top spot but Facebook (which was in second place in many previous...
The list of most downloaded Tizen apps and games for the month of May 2019 is here, and there's some movement this time around. We see as many as seven new entrants in the top 19 (yes, Tizen Store is only revealing the best 19 apps for May). However, there's...
We are into May 2019, and it's time for our monthly roundup of most downloaded Tizen apps and games for the previous month. The month of April 2019 did not see many new entrants making their way into that coveted Top 20 list, just three to be precise. An action game named...
March 2019 has come and gone. We can now report on the status of the Tizen Store and the most downloaded games and Apps for your Tizen mobile. We have quite a few new games to add to the list, 5 in total, and one new utility. Top two spots...
Here is our monthly roundup of Tizen Apps for your smartphone. Obviously, it needs to be a Tizen phone in order to be able to download these from the Tizen store. This list is the most downloaded apps or games during February 2019 as of the published date of 7...
January saw quite a few new Tizen games to hit the Top 20 most popular downloaded list. Unfortunately, we didn't see any new Tizen smartphone apps in this Tizen Store list. WhatsApp Messenger, Facebook, and Facebook Messenger still enjoy the top 3 positions respectively. I don't think anything will shake...
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