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- Google Earth to license new satellite imageryToday
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Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened imagery for the entire country in around 30 days. Impressive. The level of detail will be approximately 50cm per pixel -- that's just under 20 inches. If you want to see what that looks like, take a look at this. Imagine having a Google Maps/Earth content that is this detailed, 100% complete and updated once a month -- that's powerful stuff. "The GeoEye-1 satellite has the highest ground resolution color imagery available in...
- ROFLthing 2008Yesterday
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Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing 2008. 6:14 p.m. LOL wallets: 6:21 p.m. We arrived a little late. Portland programmer and founder of Upcoming.org Andy Baio introduced ROFLthing by showing the most hilarious bloopers that are found on the web. Have you seen the DEA officer who was showing a class of people how to be safe with a gun and shot it by accident? As long as it's convincing, a meme will spread. It has to have the...
- Google-Yahoo to Washington: We're moving forward.Yesterday
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I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. Tally one up for the geeks this week, who basically told Washington, "Yeah, you really don't matter." Maybe that's an extreme way of looking at it but how else do you explain the "We are going to move forward" comment to by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, talking to Bloomberg about the non-exclusive ad deal that Google and Yahoo reached back in June. At the time, the companies said they would give Washington three months to scrutinize it, a way of being proactive and addressing possible antitrust concerns ahead of time....
- Windows Mobile magazine ends, but iPhone Life launches on September 9thYesterday
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While I get the majority of my news and content online, I still do subscribe to a few magazines including MacWorld, Laptop, and Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. I am very saddened by the news that there will be one final issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. As you can read in the press release they are working to make the final issue a "keeper" with lots of Windows Mobile reviews, new tips and how-tos, a guide to best accessories, software, and much more. The final issue will be on newstands in November. However, iPhone Life will launch on September 9th and you can subscribe for only $25 for 2 years of magazines.
- JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?Yesterday
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[Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of developers of so-called Rich Internet Applications, from widgets to online versions of desktop programs such as word processors, are very excited about this new release because it should make make it easier to just pull different nuggets of pre-produced code into their new Web-based services. But most of the proposed changes, summarized well by Jeremy Martin, seem to act mainly as crutches for programmers in other languages (read: C# and Java) to use JavaScript. The biggest...