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MapGuide Open Source Live Application Gallery

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:18:43 EST

Want to see what the new MapGuide Open Source AJAX and DWF viewers look like? The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has a webpage with a couple examples for you to check out. Maybe Digg or Slashdot have linked to them because at least on my end they are pretty slow. I was talking about how ESRI could sell (or give away) the Web ADF so developers could use it in other applications, but maybe MapGuide Open Source could fit that bill also.

Tags: mapguide, opensource, ajax

ArcWeb Labs Live?

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:52:44 EST

I didn’t think we’d be seeing it this soon, but it appears that ArcWeb Labs at least has a webpage. I tried to get into the SVG Viewer, but I’m getting a java error on access. At least this is something to add to your bookmarks or del.icio.us.

Tags: esri, arcweblabs

Loki - Location-based Search and Navigation

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:46:46 EST

Loki is a killer idea and a precursor to the rise of location-based contextual advertising. So what does it do? In short, Loki is a Firefox/IE plugin that detects your current location based on the Wifi access point you are using - it then allows you to conduct searches in your local area. And this isn’t just a search for businesses and services - you can find news about local sports teams, events, local bloggers, gas prices, traffic reports, weather forecasts and more. All in all, an impressive tool.

What this really hints at - and more so than Plazes - is the new brand of location-based advertising that will presumably be part of Google’s free wifi efforts. The least invasive way to deliver these ads is through an Adwords-style system, although other systems (personalized alerts of local deals, for instance) are a possibility. I’m sure some people will find this advertising invasive, but no one can deny that it’s on the way.

PS. Living outside of a metropolitan area, Loki isn’t doing much for me. Let me know if you have more luck.

Update: On a related topic, Shimon Sandler has a post today about GeoAds for Google Local.

Loki - Location-based Search and Navigation

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:46:46 EST

PS. Living outside of a metropolitan area, Loki isn’t doing much for me. Let me know if you have more luck.

Update: On a related topic, Shimon Sandler has a post today about GeoAds for Google Local.

The Aquarium: WS-Addressing 1.0 Nearly Baked

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:00:00 EST

Arun (who is becoming a bit of a rock-star) reports that the W3C's WS-Addressing Core and SOAP binding specs. are just waiting final advisory commitee approval before becoming Recommendations (that's W3C-speak for a standard).

The Early Access Java API for WS-A (JAX-WSA) is in Java WSDP 2.0 and will be making it's way into GlassFish builds soon.

Support for W3C WS-A is part of Sun's commitment to provide broad, first class interoperability between Java and products based on Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation).

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Toni Mahoni - 16: Ordnungsverhüterli

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:07:43 EST

Mails an Toni [at] spreeblick [punkt] com.

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Are You Prepared to Prove Your Life?

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:01:16 EST

Consider this. After the recent James Frey controversy over his book, “A Few Million Pieces”, where people assumed, and he didn’t discourage their assumption, that his book was true and auto-biographical, USA Today claims “Writers Watch Out”.

One first-time memoirist says she had to answer a lot of questions about her experiences but doesn’t think the publisher checked them out. Another hired an investigator to be sure she had her facts straight.

In the wake of the James Frey fiasco, the ripple effect on other writers is, if anything, making them more cautious, though not very worried.

Janice Erlbaum, whose memoir of her life as a homeless teen, Girlbomb, has just been published by Villard, says she had “an extensive legal review with the Random House legal department, but I don’t think they followed up.”

“They asked me a lot of questions like, ‘What were the dates that this happened?’ They really wanted to know who was who. I don’t think they did any independent verification, but they certainly did ask me about every person and every detail in the book.”

…Jenny Frost, president of Crown, Brown’s publisher, says Crown didn’t fact-check Brown but says of life after Frey: “I would like to think that we’ve always been intelligent about our authors and good judges of character…”

But, she adds, “we’ll never be quite as innocent as we were before.”

Has this issue of truthfulness in book publishing crossed over to the blogging world? Many people have their blogs turned into books, or write their blog as an online book, so the line between book and blog blurs.

Do you think that you have to “watch out” and be honest with your readers? If you are blogging about your personal life, do you now feel a responsibility to “stick to the truth” with your stories, and be able to prove them? Should an auto-biographical blog be held to the same inquisition for truthfulness as a book? What do you think about this?

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The Aquarium: Jerome Presenting GlassFish @ TSSS / Las Vegas

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:00:00 EST

Jerome, The Architect of GlassFish, is giving a presentation on GlassFish at The Server Side Symposium. That happens at Cesar's Palace, at Las Vegas tomorrow (Saturday), at noon, local time.

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53% chance of being eaten...

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:43:00 EST

how will you die?
i know, i just did one of those quiz things (2 actually) in the last post - but when i did this one - the idea that i have a 53% chance of being eaten! well, who couldn't share such news. i think i'll buy a t-shirt that says, "lunch?" or "got lunch?" on it... maybe :-)

technically, i could dissappear - only to have it discovered that i got a disease which made me delirious, dress as a deer, and wander off into the woods, where a hunter might shoot me - leaving me to be eaten by wolves or vultures...

i think i could work the rest into the storyline... if i tried real hard...

please excuse the overuse of quizzes on this blog*spot...

if you do the thing - leave a link in a comment...

You scored as Disappear. Your death will be by disappearing,
probably a camping trip gone wrong or an evening hike you never
returned from. Always remeber that one guy who was hiking alone and got
in a rock slide. He could have died, but he cut his own hand off to
save himself. Don't end up like him (or worse, dead).

Disappear

87%

Natural Causes

73%

Gunshot

73%

Disease

60%

Eaten

53%

Accident

47%

Bomb

47%

Cut Throat

33%

Suffocated

33%

Drowning

27%

Stabbed

13%

Posion

Suicide

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Welcome PRojetZ

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:27:04 EST

A new french PR blog entered the blogosphere yesterday, PRojetZ, authored by Philippe Cherel.
If you can read french, I fully recomend it to you as he is a very smart writer and I am sure you'll find his blog a great daily RDV while drinking your first coffee in the morning...;o)

Welcome Philippe !

Tags: philippe cherel, projetz, projet z

The Aquarium: JDBC Drivers in Mustang

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:00:00 EST

And here are some blogs on JDBC in Mustang:

• JDBC Driver Loading with Mustang
• Some Recent Changes to JDBC 4.0
• JDBC 4.0 Wrapper Interface
• JDBC 4.0 RowID Interface

GlassFish, Mustang

PageRank Prediction Glitch?

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:37:51 EST

PageRank predictor tools are predicting massive PageRank drops on everything.

I'm sure this is just a temporary glitch in how the tools interact with Google's datacenters. Is this related to Google's software upgrade rollout?

NewsGator improvements will advance use of RSS

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:48:55 EST

NewsGator has been a roll lately. They've just released updated versions of Netnewswire (mac desktop RSS feed aggregator) and FeedDemon (PC desktop RSS aggregator). Steve Rubel now reports NewsGator is upgrading it's web based aggregator. Take a look.

Using RSS feeds for reading the content you want, from who you want and when you want it is nothing short of life changing. Just ask lawyers or other business professionals who've mastered the use of RSS feeds.

The problem in advancing the use of RSS to more lawyers and other professionals has been the lack of easy to set up and use aggregators. Netnewsire and FeedDemon are good but they require downloads. Netnewsire downloads on a mac were not a problem. But most business folks are using PC's locked down by IT to prevent them from installing new software like FeedDemon. Bloglines has been okay, but there are shortcomings when trying to monitor keywords and key phrases by RSS.

I've found Newsgator's user interface till now to be among the most confusing on the net. If these guys can master an easy to use web based aggregator of selected blog RSS feeds combined with getting RSS feeds by selected keywords, game's on. And NewsGator will have 10 to 20 new law firms and professional business firms a month in the form of LexBlog clients using NewsGator. We'll include it part and parcel in our RSS training.

Web Toys: 测试自己在Blogoshere里的影响力

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:40:48 EST

只要在Bloginfluence里输入自己的blog地址，点击发送，即可获得一份报告，即在Technorati里的blog链接数，帖子链接数，Yahoo搜索里的网页链接数，Bloglines里的订阅数以及Goolge的Pagerank。然后Bloginfluence会根据以下这个公式：
[(blog+posts+web links) + (bloglines subs * 2)]*1+(Pagerank/10)
得出你的blog在blogoshere里的影响力到底有多大。毫无疑问，数值越大影响力肯定就越大了。呵呵，有点意思，这倒是个做blog排行榜的好工具～～
下面这个图标所显示就是我的影响力 :)

My influence

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Web Toys: 测试自己在Blogoshere里的影响力

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:40:48 EST

My influence

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Technorati Tags: blog, bloginfluence, blogoshere