As the Where Conference takes place, I watch from far away since I’m not yet on the map.
A few interesting items recently noted:
GeoPress/MT brings the MoveableType blog crowd into the maps, GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats space with a plugin to make marking up content easy. WordPress users have enjoyed similar for a while, though I’ve [...]
I need to “play” with a programming language before I find myself really comfortable with it. Playing doesn’t just mean solving some problems or writing an app, but instead simply experimenting with the available functionality — exploring instead of producing.
TextMate has served me well for this, as I can write some code and immediately [...]
Google released geocoding updates to the JavaScript API they provide developers today. This is huge for allowing us the ability to improve the user experience in interfaces with location data. Until now, we’ve had to rely on external sources. Tapping the Google source makes plenty sense.
I’ve been largely distracted by other things, [...]
Technorati’s Microformats Search and Pingerati push the microformats goals further into view of the blogosphere; expect buzz to snowball and spread to the rest of the web. Yay Technorati!
The Microformats Search publicly supports hCard, hCalendar, and hReview. Pingerati has specific ping locations that specialize in those and adds specifics for hlisting and xfolk [...]
