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Category Archives: Mapping

Twitter Atlas may have leg up on Twittervision

April 3, 2007 – 9:46 pm

Check out this new Twitter mashup:

I like how the new Twittervision has a login feature now, but this new Atlas application looks pretty impressive. The Microsoft maps look sharper when zoomed in too.

By me | Also posted in Ajax, Geography, Google, Maps, Mashup, Mobile, Twitter, World | Comments (1)

SketchUp Your World

January 26, 2007 – 2:09 am

Google Earth gets better every day.

With the help of their acquisition of SketchUp, a 3-D modeling program, Google aims to get every major college campus into their Earth browser. Students are encouraged to draw their campus–not just a bland, geometric box outline of the buildings, but detailed, photo-matched 3-D visualizations of them.
This looks very hard [...]

By me | Also posted in Architecture, Earth, Geography, Google, Internet, Nature, Photography, School, Standards, Technology | Comments (1)

The Cell Phone of the Future

January 13, 2007 – 4:41 pm

Apple is a revolutionary entity. In 1984, they introduced the first real personal computer, the Macintosh. In 2001, it was the iPod. Now, in 2007, behold the iPhone. Pending a lawsuit from Cisco on the trademark, the iPhone will be released in June of this year.

Apple has filed over 200 patents related to the [...]

By me | Also posted in Apple, Beauty, Computers, Google, Internet, Mobile, Music, Photography, Portable, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0, Yahoo!, iPhone, iPod, mp3 | Comments (0)

Microsoft Can Search Better Than Google?

November 7, 2006 – 9:46 am

I hate to say this… but Microsoft has better online mapping software than Google. Yesterday, they introduced Virtual Earth 3D, an application that takes photographic images of cities and terrain to generate textured, photo-realistic 3D models with engineering level accuracy.

The ultimate test is to find a clear picture of Blacksburg on the map. Google Maps [...]

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