How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal (89)
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Google Earth is getting a nice plug from Olympic Gold Medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong. When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband’s GPS unit to capture the elevation along the route. Then she used that data to find the best training route back home. In a guest post on the Google Lat-Long blog, she writes: After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to ...
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Jeff said:
I just love hearing these stories of people using freely available tools/data in ways no one initially planned.
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Jeff said:
Cool story -- I love to hear about the unexpected collisions between athletics and technology.
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Fred said:
Got to love this clever use of tech for training for cycling.
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Haidong said:
very good try
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David Feng said:
woah
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Kluzter said:
De esto se trata... informeichon informeichon informeichon!
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Aaron said:
I wonder if her gps maker has this info, and can also make light of this.
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trevor said:
I didn't have much interest in the Olympics, but this story is too awesome not to pass on.
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haggaret said:
This is kind of cool.
How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal (83)
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Google Earth is getting a nice plug from Olympic Gold Medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong. When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband’s GPS unit to capture the elevation along the route. Then she used that data to find the best training route back home. In a guest post on the Google Lat-Long blog, she writes: After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to ...
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Aaron said:
I wonder if her gps maker has this info, and can also make light of this.
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Haidong said:
very good try
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Fred said:
Got to love this clever use of tech for training for cycling.
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Jeff said:
Cool story -- I love to hear about the unexpected collisions between athletics and technology.
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Jeff said:
I just love hearing these stories of people using freely available tools/data in ways no one initially planned.
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Kluzter said:
De esto se trata... informeichon informeichon informeichon!
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David Feng said:
woah
The Google Alphabet, 2008 edition (49)
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Google has added Google Suggest to their homepage. When Google suggest first-launched Buster McLeod (AKA Erik Benson) checked the suggested term for each letter to create the Google Alphabet, 2004 edition. When Google News Suggest launched in 2006 I did the same. Now in honor of Google Suggest graduating from labs here is the annotated Google Alphabet, 2008 edition: A = amazon B = bebo C = craigslist (in 2004 this was cnn) D = ...
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billrod said:
interesting..
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Haidong said:
utube...is so popular
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catepol said:
ah però
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Geoff said:
I love quick and easy search-based research like this.
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gautamg said:
Craigslist beats CNN for c and youtube beats yahoo for y.Not obvious.
It’s Official: The G1 From T-Mobile is the First Android Phone (60)
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Images from around the web are showing the HTC Dream AKA the T-Mobile G1 in all its bendy, screen-sliding glory. This Sidekick-like phone ...
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Brian said:
this is sounding really good
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Devlin D said:
Hell yes!! Does Canada get one of these?
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Joe said:
I like this article. That's all. ;)
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Meow!
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Haidong said:
iPhone or gPhone, which one will you buy?
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G$ said:
woAh. move your mouse pointer over the ad at the bottom of this article and keep your eye on the status bar at the bottom of firefox... see that #changing?
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HacKnight said:
Woohoo! I'm getting one...
It’s Official: The G1 From T-Mobile is the First Android Phone (74)
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Images from around the web are showing the HTC Dream AKA the T-Mobile G1 in all its bendy, screen-sliding glory. This Sidekick-like phone has a pop up screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and none of the buckets of suck that characterize Windows Mobile phones. Android is still fairly nascent so I worry that the application environment will be limited on launch but an open, powerful platform backed by a major, web-focused corporation is better than a ...
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Haidong said:
iPhone or gPhone, which one will you buy?
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Meow!
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Joe said:
I like this article. That's all. ;)
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Devlin D said:
Hell yes!! Does Canada get one of these?
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Brian said:
this is sounding really good
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G$ said:
woAh. move your mouse pointer over the ad at the bottom of this article and keep your eye on the status bar at the bottom of firefox... see that #changing?
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HacKnight said:
Woohoo! I'm getting one...
Mack 0.7.0: A Significant Update to A Powerful Ruby Web App Framework for Distributed Apps (7)
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We first covered Mack in April, when I billed it as a "fast, best of the rest, Web app framework." Mack, a Ruby-based Web application framework, developed by a team led by Mark Bates, has continued to grow over the past several months and today announced a significant release, Mack 0.7.0. Mack is a unique Ruby Web app framework due to its heavy focus on reusability across multiple applications. Mack supports distributed objects - yes, ...
Another Online Olympic Winner: Microsoft (MSFT) (6)
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The Million Dollar a Month Facebook Application (37)
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There’s a pretty well known secret among top Facebook application developers: one developer is generating over $1 million a month. Who is that developer exactly? Well, most people won’t talk about it and after some prodding around we’ve narrowed down the suspects. We aren’t going to post them though because ultimately it doesn’t matter who the individual is. All that matters is that a top application that is used for entertainment purposes is generating over ...
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Haidong said:
1M per month...
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junal said:
this is freaking crazy ! i knew that but still didnt want to believe....now its just making me more crazy and engaging with FB app more,,,,
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CtrlBreak said:
WTF!!! I call BS.
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Jean-Marie Moës said:
Quite inspirational for us 30-dc internet marketers wannabes :)
6 Emerging Trends CIOs Should Care About (58)
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According to Forrester Research, we're in the initial phases of a new 16-year cycle of technology innovation and growth called "IT Everywhere." This shift comes on the heels of the previous cycle which brought us networked computing technologies for our enterprise applications and the Internet. During this transitional period, CIOs need to be aware of which trends from the older cycle are still important and which of the new trends they should also be paying ...
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Kevin said:
Great summary of the Forrester research on 'The Emerging Technology Trends That CIOs Should Care About'.
Let's get this Partuza started! (9)
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Do you wish you could develop and test your OpenSocial gadgets on your own local development machine or server? Or are you thinking of becoming an OpenSocial container but need an example of how you can get started? If your answer to either of these questions is "yes," you are in luck because Partuza was created to help with both of these problems. Partuza, a sample social networking site that supports OpenSocial, is written in ...
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if you want to play with open social one day, this is a nice to have
Google Takes U.S. Share From Yahoo In July; Baidu Now Third Largest Search Engine In The World (ComScore) (16)
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Google keeps gaining search market share in the U.S., but its global dominance is not as great as previously indicated. Last night, comScore released its search market share and query growth numbers for July and Lehman Brothers reported the numbers in a note this morning. Here are the main search market share percentage numbers in the U.S. from comScore: Company—–July search share—Change from June, 2008 Google: 61.9 +0.4 Yahoo: 20.5 -0.4 AOL: 4.5 +0.2 Microsoft: ...
Google Takes U.S. Share From Yahoo In July; Baidu Now Third Largest Search Engine In The World (ComScore) (8)
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Google keeps gaining search market share in the U.S., but its global dominance is not as great as previously indicated. Last night, comScore released its search market share and query growth numbers for July and Lehman Brothers reported the numbers in a note this morning. Here are the main search market share percentage numbers in the U.S. from comScore: Company—–July search share—Change from June, 2008 Google: 61.9 +0.4 Yahoo: 20.5 -0.4 AOL: 4.5 +0.2 Microsoft: ...
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