Maps Mash Up

I've always used Google maps for last minute directions, but I just recently discovered how to tap into its virtual field trip potential. Turns out, you can literally get IN the map. It's a phenomenal way to explore with your students (or on your own!). Read More......(read more)  

http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/Summary-Market-Report/the-future-of-enterprise-mashups-demand,-challenges-and-vendor-opportunities-192671.asp Introduction Mashups, or composite applications, first came to prominence on the social and consumer web as users looked to make the most of the Web 2.0 technology at their fingertips. Enterprises were quick to see the business benefits of turning various data sources into services and ‘mashing...  

We're really excited about today's launch of Nexus One. The device is the newest phone to run on the Android platform with Google Maps for mobile pre-installed, and the app has never run better. Nexus One has a super fast 1GHz processor and feels as fast and responsive as any phone.But my favorite thing about Nexus One is the beautiful, 3.7" high-resolution AMOLED display. I use Google Maps Navigation (beta) constantly for turn-by-turn...  

Howard Rheingold was a featured speaker at The Internet as Playground and Factory conference, held in November 2009 in New York City. The conference leader Trebor Scholz has written a Post-Mortem Mashup which is available online. Trevor’s report begins: In mid-November 2009, one hundred media scholars, lawyers, historians, artists, social media experts, students, programmers, and activists [...]  

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The Youth Hostel association in the UK are using Google Maps to show the location of all Youth Hostels in the UK. If you click on a map marker the contact details of the hostel are listed, along with prices and the hostel's star rating. ...  

If we've discovered one thing this year, it's that everyone can make a connection and have an opinion over America fast food. Our most popular map mash-up for 2009 was the "Most Shocking McDonalds Locations" guide, and we continue to get reader submissions of photos and descriptions of crazy Mickey Ds they've spotted in the weirdest corners of the world. This is one series that must go on, and so plan on discovering more McDs with us in 2010...  

Room Atlas is a Google Maps mashup that overlays prices of 53,000 hotels. The prices are colour coded for easy identifcation and you can filter by amenties. You can also overlay additional information such as Wikipedia landmarks.  

Quick ways to create a online map mashup have already been covered here, but as online maps become more sophisticated, so are the tools used to create them. The following are free tools that have additional functionality beyond point-and-click mapping, but are still relatively easy to use.  

In terms of new hot startups, Square is among the hottest. And for good reason. If it takes off, it has the potential to transform the way vendors and consumers handle transactions. (There's a reason it was worth $40 million before launch.) Not surprisingly, the talent is also flowing to them. Square has just hired Bob Lee, a software engineer at Google. And not just any engineer, Lee led the core library development for Android — yes, Google...  

Remember when virtual reality was all the rage? It had a good run, especially during the 1990s, and perhaps culminating with Second Life in the decade which just closed. But virtual reality is old in the tooth. People are a lot more interested these days in "augmented reality," or at least they are on Google where it surpassed "virtual reality" as a search term sometime last summer (see chart). Maybe people are searching for it more...  

This is it, the moment you've all been waiting for. Well, those of you who are Mac users that use Chrome anyway. Though it took longer than expected, bookmark syncing and extensions have been turned on in the latest version (4.0.288.1) that just went live today. However, before you start commenting that you don't see it working yet, please not that this is on the dev channel version of Chrome for Mac. That version is slightly different from...  

Well, with Joe Hewitt famously no longer working on the Facebook iPhone app, it took a little bit longer than some expected, but today a new version finally hit the App Store with a much requested new feature: Push Notifications. While the 3.0 version of Facebook's app was great, probably one of the best iPhone apps out there, it, like many other iPhone apps, was only useful when it was actively being used. That is because Apple obviously...  

Our Google Nexus One giveaway yesterday drew so much attention so quickly that our site actually went down hard for half an hour. 4,089 comments and 8,242 tweets later, we have a randomly selected winner. Who is from Romania (we said we'd ship it anywhere). Matilda Tanascov is the proud owner of a brand new Google Nexus One phone, if she ever returns our tweet. Congrats, Matilda. We hope you enjoy it.  

We’re live from the CES 2010 keynote, featurin’ good ol’ Steve Ballmer! We’ll keep the live blog flowing as long as Verizon doesn’t crumble under the weight of a thousand bloggers. Check out the live blog after the jump.