Starting Friday, April 27th Sony will be launching a video-sharing website - I couldn’t find any “real” information but I am guessing that the platform will be based on the Grouper video sharing site Sony acquired last year for $65 million. I’ll keep up on the news.
YouTube has been working in the last few months […]

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Just now I was taking a look through the newest links at Google Maps Mania and I came across a nice mash-up from the Canadian Cancer Society which uses flowers as markers for users to send their message of support for people fighting or who have fought cancer. Great job!
The Google Maps Group has received […]

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This weekend will see me working hard on integrating a bunch of new features to the mash-up over at Give Earth a Hand - hopefully either with a layer or even better the Javascript Lightbox effect originally from Lokesh Dhakar, the complete view of the Earth chain (this is causing problems as I need to […]

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Just been catching up on some of the newest technology news and the buzz at the moment is services which allow users to quicker buil mash-ups of many types of data sources. Pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups: lots of funny names for a very intersting technology. I’ll be checking out the various mash-up and screenscraper […]

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Thought I’d write a bit again for this blog. Last time I was just at the beginning of my current main project, Give Earth a Hand (http://www.giveearthahand.com). Well, that is up and running now and I am constantly working on adapting the site and building up the community. There is so much work to be […]

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