Quem já usou a API do Google Maps pra fazer um 'Como chegar', ou ainda para listar as padarias mais próximas da sua casa... Até aí tudo está dentro do possível, certo? ERRADO! As API's do Google vão muito além disso. Prova disso é um site bem legal chamado Zoomii, que utilizou esta API e integrou a uma lista de 25.000 livros do Amazon.com e montou um e-commerce bastante interessante.

A navegação por metáforas faz do site uma verdadeira biblioteca virtual. Metáfora é a representação virtual de um mundo real através da estrutura do site. Neste caso, o Zoomii é uma Biblioteca Virtual, onde os livros são separados por prateleiras e organizados de acordo com a sua categoria.

A navegabilidade é semelhante ao Google Maps, com direito a 'Zoom In' e 'Zoom Out' (aproximar e afastar). A renderização das imagens, através da API, torna o site bem leve e navegável. No menu lateral, é possível ver um um mapa das categorias disponíveis. Ao selecionar uma categoria, as prateleiras são centralizadas na tela, a partir daí pode-se navegar de uma a uma, olhando os livros expostos igualzinho a uma biblioteca 'de verdade'. :) Ahh!!! Já ia me esquecendo: Se você quiser indicar um livro a um amigo, o Zoomii aceita permalinks, ou seja, você envia uma URL com alguns parâmetros semelhantes às coordenadas do Maps. Assim você acessa diretemente o livro indicado na prateleira, com este "O caçador de Pipas - The Kite Runner", ou de forma detalhada como este do Zeldman "Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)". Legal né? :p

Como o site é renderizado com Ajax, pela própria API, não há Flash (algum dia ele ainda vai se aposentar... hehe).

Além da inovação 'ideológica', uma boa dose de criatividade misturado a tecnologias garante a evolução da Web. E, particularmente, é dessa parte que eu gosto. "Nada se restringe ao que vemos e sim ao que podemos!" (essa eu criei agora... :D ). Flws!

das Google Streetview-Kameramobil:

Allerdings war aufgrund des Regens die Kamera eingepackt.

(Apropo, muss es denn ein Opel sein? Und dazu noch mit Hamburger Kennzeichen...)
Und mittlerweile hab ich dank
http://www.googlewatchblog.de/2008/06/30/foto-vom-streetview-auto-in-muenchen/
mehrere Fotos dazu gefunden. Interessanterweise sind laut der Kollegen die die Fotos gemacht haben einige aus dem Gebiet rund um den Hbf. Evtl hat die Karre dort ihre Basis ;)
Darauf deutet auch ein Bild auf
http://www.bertschulze.de/2008/07/02/google-street-view-muenchen-update-neue-fotos/
( http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/439303 )
Es handelt sich wohl um das
http://www.pontis-haus.de/

Wollen wir uns mal den Aufbau genauer angucken:

Ansich also gar keine Hexerei die Fotos "selbst" zu machen. Blöd nur das man keinen Kartendienst dazu hat.
Die Laserscanner gibts übrigends zB von Sick. Sehr geile Teile, mit sowas durft ich auch schon spielen/arbeiten.
http://www.3d-scanner.net/index-de.html

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Golem berichtet übrigends über eine neue Funktion bei GMail die alle Sessions killt.
Ganz praktisch wenn man öfters von verschiedenen PC die einem nicht gehören drauf zugreift.
http://www.golem.de/0807/60951.html

I’ve been having a bit of a Casey Jo revival lately and I was watching my fave of her vids, her contribution to the awesome Babespotting and you won’t believe what I noticed! There’s a shot of a place in London called ‘Cock Lane’!!

Obviously I had to Google map it straight away. It’s near Holborn Viaduct apparently. Defo have to go check that out soon.

It did get me and some of the boys in the office thinking; pornstars should only live in porn-themed named towns or streets! Wouldn’t that make the world a better place? So we ended up devising a fun way to waste time this afternoon. We typed as many rude words into Google maps as possible and you wanna hear some of the crackers we found! There’s Ragged Ass Road which is in Canada, there’s also a town called Felch in Michigan, Boner Street in Georgia and my personal favourite ‘Clit Court’ in a place called Albany in New York State! I reckon our pals across the pond have got the right idea! It’s not just across the Pacific where they name places funny though.

I told one of my female colleagues about my idea and she surprised me by saying she’d once visited a town in Austria called ‘Wank’. I asked her if she’d had a fiddle with herself whilst she was there and I think I embarrassed her a bit because she excused herself pretty quickly! Oh well, haha!

]]> http://emmemme.wordpress.com/?p=109 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:34:35 +0000 manu http://emmemme.wordpress.com/?p=109 Stavo cercando informazioni sulla strada migliore per raggiungere la sede di un colloquio di lavoro e così ho chiesto a Google Maps quale strada sia meglio fare.

Con mio sommo stupore, leggendo attentamente quale via percorrere, mi imbatto in questa singolare indicazione:

Ebbene si, Google Maps mi suggerisce di effettuare un pezzo di strada e successivamente fare una bella inversione a "U" e tornare indietro! :D

Ai posteri l'ardua sentenza. :)

http://www.mappler.com/nbbikerack

Jocelyn

Évoluant dans un marché régional, les artisans, TPE et PME sont amenés à drainer, à partir des moteurs de recherche, des visiteurs ciblés sur leurs sites. Un référencement local qui implique un savoir faire précis.

En effet, pour les restaurants, fleuristes ou autres entreprises travaillant sur une zone de géographique définie (soit une grande partie des clients de Dubuc Marketing), Internet peut vite devenir un réseau bien trop vaste pour faire connaître une marque locale. Ces derniers recherchent des clients dans leur ville ou tout au plus la province.

De plus en plus d'internautes précisent leurs requêtes. Avec 34 000 000 réponses sur la requête "pizzeria" sur le moteur Google.ca, les utilisateurs ont vite fait de préciser la ville. Mises à part les grandes enseignes nationales, il sera beaucoup plus intéressant pour une petite pizzeria de se placer sur la requête "pizzeria montréal", par exemple. Non seulement, le trafic sera plus qualitatif, mais également, la concurrence sera beaucoup moins sévère. Sur cette requête, la société ne sera plus en concurrence qu'avec 820 000 pages de résultats… Dans les recherches B to B, la conclusion est identique : face aux multiples réponses sur les requêtes, les entreprises ont tendance à localiser leurs requêtes.
Les moteurs de recherche ont trouvé dans la recherche locale une opportunité de prouver leur capacité à fournir une information plus pertinente. Les trois principaux moteurs - Google, Yahoo ! et Live - fournissent un service entièrement dédié à la recherche locale avec cartes interactive, recherche d'itinéraires et de services de proximités. Pouvoir ressortir sur ces services, mais également dans les résultats classiques demande une optimisation spécifique et donc un vrai savoir faire.

Première partie : adapter son site

Avant de commencer à toucher à son contenu, il convient de sélectionner les bons mots clés associés à un lieu géographique, car associer la ville à une requête est dix fois plus recherchée que lorsque l’on ajoute la région. Un ajout qui peut se faire à tout les niveaux, c'est-à-dire dans les URL, les titres et directement dans le texte même des pages (selon les secteurs d’activité, les quartiers,…).

Sur l’exemple ci-dessus, nous voyons à quel point Dominos Pizza, pourtant une marque nationale, a compris l’intérêt des résultats locaux.

Il convient également d'indiquer au moteur la localisation de la prestation. Une page toute particulière à soigner : celle de contact. Il reste donc préférable de présenter, en plus, les adresses postales du ou des magasins.

Autre astuce pour sortir sur une recherche locale : l'affichage d'un plan. Détailler l'accès, par exemple en précisant l'accès par la route et les transports, permet de donner des indications locales aux visiteurs, mais surtout aux moteurs qui indexeront ces données.

Deuxième partie : multiplier les liens locaux

En plus du balisage sur le site, orienter la géolocalisation par un netlinking spécifique permet de gagner de précieux points sur les moteurs. Tout d'abord en inscrivant le site sur les annuaires et moteurs locaux. Ensuite en recherchant des partenaires d'échanges de liens propres à la région. Car Google repère la dimension géographique des liens, grâce aux adresses IP classées par zone géographique, ainsi plus le netlinking sera local, plus il renforcera la localisation de la cible.
Par ailleurs, il ne faudra pas oublier d'inscrire les services des moteurs. Microsoft Maps Live, Google Maps, et Yahoo Maps…

Les petites entreprises ont tout à gagner d’Internet, mais à condition d’être très visible sur deux points : les mots clé liés à l’activité d’une part et à la localisation d’autre part.

This is all the brain can musta today, so hopefully you can enjoyable this posts in all it's grammar & spelling mistaken gloryiousness...

Pixel Street Art

Is it digital? Is it real? Is is art? All of the above?? What can I say, I love this shit.

Via PicoCool.

YouChoose / YouTube

Fed up staring at YouTube videos? Want to get involved?! YouChoose turns The Godfather into an interactive movie adventure. Perhaps not the most polished experience, but a taster of exciting interactive video experience to come...

Via HyperHappen.

I Feel London

Explore London by your mood (feeling naughty?) with I Feel London. Anything with a Google Maps mash-up gets my digital juices flowing. As well as sharing your own tips, you can see what other people like to do when they feel hungover, romantic, energetic etc. There's one for NYC too, (the best city in the world!).

Via Andy.

Monster.com Foosball

Something wrong with this picture fellas? There's a ballerina in a foosball match! And she is never able to kick the ball. (Not sure if I'm slightly offended by that?!?) What I do like though, it directly expresses a job mismatch - reminding you to look for a job using Monster.com.

Via directdaily.

Upl8.tv

Here's another stab at making YouTube slightly less drivelous (is that a word?). From the awesome Poke NY, comes upl8.tv. Up late wathing mindless nonsense on YouTube? Watch it here and just hit space bar when you're bored. Search by your own video-tastes by throwing a search term after the backslash. Check it out in all it's next next next glory!!

Via Not Yellow, Chicken.

It's getting exciting!

The Upside
Microsoft Exchange now can be used with iPhone. I’m not familiar with the software because I never used it but according to Apple it’s basically created for corporate users. Apple wants the next iPhone to be used by both the regular individuals and by enterprise people.

It also has GPS, yes you read it right, it has a built in GPS system on the iPhone 3G. So basically you can go anywhere and track yourself on your phone; it tracks you by getting your exact point from three sources, a near by Wi-Fi signal, near by cell phone towers, or directly from the GPS satellites. I give 5 Stars to Mr. Jobs for adding the GPS feature on the next iPhone.

Not only that, the biggest surprise to iPhone fans and everyone else was the price that Mr. Jobs announced to everyone, an incredible low price for $199 for the 8 GB, and $299 for the 16 GB. With our US economy in recession it still wouldn’t stop someone like me to buy one without a second thought. After I saw the price for the 8GB I was just blown away and I said to myself that I will get one and I’ll find the money some how to get it .

The Downside
This is the part that blows big time. You cannot buy the iPhone 3G online nor can you activate it by yourself. You have to go to an AT&T store and actually sign a 2-year contract with AT&T and pay for the iPhone 3G up front. After I heard that I became hesitant about buying it. I’m currently with T-Mobile and I thought that I would just buy the iPhone 3G at full price, wait for couple of months for some techi guy to develop a software to unlock it and use T-mobile 3G network, unfortunately that plan is in the trash. AT&T has one of the worst plans I have ever seen, their lowest plan is $39.99 for 450 anytime minutes and with 5000 minutes for nights and weekends. Also, for the data plan, AT&T has raised the price from $20/month to $30/month and they are no longer sharing their revenue with Apple, sucks for Steve Jobs. So basically if I leave T-Mobile, since my contract with them ended long time ago, and sign up with AT&T, I would have to pay $36 activation fee, plus pay $40/month for voice calls, plus $30/month for the data plan, and on top of that taxes are added.

It’s Locked People
So, if you were a T-Mobile user and somehow you got your hands on an iPhone 3G, it still would be hard to unlock it because of all the restrictions Apple has placed on it. Steve Jobs emphasized in last September that it would focus more on keeping the phone from being unlocked illegally by hackers, all I can say is good luck. Hackers are everywhere and programming, gadgets, and basically anything else about technology they will spend their time on. In France, by French law, Apple has to sell unlocked iPhones, even with popularity and with money Mr. Jobs can’t sell iPhones the way he wants to the French.

Developer Program
The developer program was release on March 9th, where Apple will share revenue with all the third-party developers for creating applications for the iPhone 3G. So, if you have a lot of time in your hands you can actually applications for iPhones and if people buy them you get to keep 70% of the revenue. This move by Apple will really boost it’s popularity.

Steve Jobs said they want at least 10 million iPhones sold for 2008. So far 6 million iPhones have been sold till today so, with the new iPhone 3G with the discounted price, I’m sure they will surpass their goal.

So let’s look at some of the features for iPhone 3G:

1. Google Maps/GPS
2. iPod (for Music and Videos)
3. iTunes
4. Calculator (regular and scientific)
5. SDK (for developers)
6. Portrait and Landscape formats (when you turn the iPhone horizontally and vertically)
7. Online eBay Shopping
8. Interactive Advanced 3D Games
9. Photo Gallery
10. 2.0 Megapixel Camera
11. Loopt (an incredible social application which tells where your friends are and what they are doing and more)
12. Internet Browser (the best in the mobile market)
13. YouTube Player
14. TypePad Blogging Software( with photo blogging)
15. SMS (text messaging)
16. Visual Voicemail
17. 3G Enabled (for faster video streaming and downloads and faster internet browsing)
18. Associated Press (news directly delivered to your phone)
19. Multiple Languages

There are so many more features but there’s too many to name. I’ll do my best to get one and once I get it and I’ll write a a "really" good review.

I basically want the phone because it’s an mp3 player plus it has a GPS system because it’ll save me money from buying a Microsoft Zune and buying a GPS navigation system for my car.

It also has a special application created by Dr. S. Mark Williams for medical students to study the human body, which favors my path. Also MIMvista created an incredible application for doctors to keep up with their patients' health status. As I'm typing this sentence more and more medical applications are being created by medical personnel.

The iPhone 3G will be released in AT&T stores on July 11th of this year, just less than a week away.

What do you guys think? Do you think it’s worth buying the phone?

En este mapa, confeccionado con Google Maps, están localizadas las ubicaciones donde se crearon los más importantes lenguajes de programación: los BELL Labs donde se crearon, entre otros, el C y el C++, el ETH de Zurich donde se desarrolló el PASCAL, el MIT, etc.

El mapa es colaborativo así que, si conoces algún dato que no esté ya recogido, puedes aportar tu granito de arena.

Aquí tienes el mapa: "Major Programming Languages".

Visto en neoteo.

A map covered in brightly colored pins screams "There's something going on here" and begs further exploration.