…preferable in OpenStreetMap as Helge from the NGO Laafisuggests and support development in Africa with unrestricted access to free public maps.
Google basically asks for the same thing, with one small difference: your edits go to Google, and not to Africa:
… By submitting User Submissions to the Service, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, and create derivative works of the User Submission. …
Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox).
How come I only get ten?
Our researchers have concluded that allowing each person more than ten pre-dated emails per year would cause people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless.
Their findings:
N = Total emails sent
P = Probability that user believes the time stamp
φ = The Golden Ratio
L = Average life expectancy
There are several methods to use free map services for visualizing a list of point-features. I found this wizard for instance at the gmaps samples. It uses a published Google Spreadsheets document and puts the listed features on a map. This method is a clever way because you can use Google Spreadsheets to hold, manage and edit your data and don’t have to go through the map publishing process over and over again when you update your data.
The problem with that wizard is, that you have to know the coordinates already. So it won’t help if there is just a list of addresses without coordinate information. You must geocode (assign coordinates to each address) your items before you can put them on a map with this method. And if the map should be shown somewhere else, you’ll need a Google Maps API key, which is tied to exactly one url-string.
Luckily Yahoo! invented the Pipes: I put a quick Pipe together which allows you to geocode addresses stored in a Google Spreadsheet.
Here is how it works:
Enter a list of addresses in Google Spreadsheet. Here, for instance, is a list of shops in Vienna where you can grab a free copy of biber.
The column “Name” identifies the name of my features and the column “Address” holds the address to geocode. If you want to use another structure, you should clone the pipe and adjust the Regex-module to match your needs.
Publish your Google Spreadsheet as Atom or RSS feed (click the link “More publishing options” in the “Publish” section), e.g. the biber feed
Enter the feed url into the “Google Spreadsheet feed url” field and hit “run pipe”
A Yahoo! Map showing all your (successfully geocoded) addresses should be produced
Alternatively you can take the GeoRSS feed or KML-file from the Pipe and display it in Google Earth or put it on a Google Map (and embed it into a blog post).
Yahoo! Pipes are simple, yet powerful, and I think it should be possible to modify the Pipe in order to return a table containing coordinates. There is already a JSON output by default. Regarding the geocoding limit, I’m not sure which number applies for Yahoo! Pipes.
Google killed the hyperlink by introducing PageRank. The idea behind PageRank (the more links point to a site, the higher the site’s relevance) makes some of us be suspicious before clicking a link. Why is this link there? Does it provide further information for me or is it just a backlink to increase the target site’s PageRank? Am I’m going to be cheated? Before Google came, hyperlinks provided information and content, not backlinks. Yes, once upon a time, content was the scale for relevance.
Internet is fun. Social software is even more fun and questioning male ranking concepts is allowed. People, don’t take it too serious!
The last word on blog-usability isn’t spoken yet. The constantly changing chronological site structure is irritating. And that’s only the beginning.
In Austrian rural areas you can do solid business while enjoying a relaxing life.
None of the BarCamp alpha geeks today had an iPhone. The iPhone is an illusion.
I support the Free Burma Action because I felt the need to do something. I’m a lucky person, I was born into a world where previous generations already had fought for my rights. I’m deeply impressed by the people in Burma, who stand peacefully up in front of armed soldiers, demanding nothing more than democracy. Something I experienced my entire life as given. Nobody can tell if this action will help, but it’s still better than do nothing and wait what happens next. Thanks to all the valuable input at the Free Burma Session!
Who’s a blogger, who’s not. Or, does anybody really care about that term?
Seems like the revolutionary concept of the nineties finally came true 2007:
I must confess that I’m deeply impressed of how efficient multiple persons located in different places can simultaneously work on one document by using Skype in combination with Google Docs. Not even in intranet environments, while using standalone office applications, and where people share one room and talk to each other personally, editing the same document works as flawlessly as it does on Google Docs while talking over Skype.
Video on demand without “watch it within a day or we blow up your computer DRM”:
Mashable provides a list of 50 full length movies available on Google Video, not quite legal though.
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Seems like the revolutionary concept of the nineties finally came true 2007: