Archives for January 16, 2006

Looking a bit deeper at some PR that Microsoft issued last week (see http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/678/2/), part of the project billed at MSRIndia (Microsoft Research India) involves developing a web-based map of India with multi-lingual and community features – the project looks pretty interesting and detailed. A topic are in the Project’s areas of research include something ther refer to as Digital Geographics – analysis, and visualization of digitized geographic information (see http://research.microsoft.com/research/dgr/). The project will look to expand purpose driven navigation and the integration of maps and blogs (ie. integrating virtual earth and MSN spaces) – more on this can be found in this blog billed as “the loblog” http://loblog.viavirtualearth.com/loblog/. Finally, in the project’s career area I noticed a position titled Researcher Digital Geographics. You academics interested in getting in on the research may find this of interest. For more about MSRIndia jump to http://research.microsoft.com/india/
See also http://research.microsoft.com/virtualindia/

I’m now well into my 5th hour of watching football today and have been multi-tasking as well by searching out blogs and items of interest. Additionally, I’ve been beefing up the migration of my weblog over to the my.opera community (the blog is being mirrored there until I decide to go one way or the other). Between yelling and screaming, crying (my Colts went down today but oh, what a come back!… condolences go out to Lynn Allen, Autodesk evangelist who is likely heart-broken today by the devastating loss in Indy) responding to emails, and making a call to New Zealand, I’ve also stumbled onto a few very cool things… one – Google video (http://video.google.com) a cool service from Google that enables registered users to post video, tag them with keywords, etc… could be a very cool way to share your tutorials, product demos, vodcasts, or what have you… search using”gis” for a test video I uploaded using images from the ESRI user conference… I seem some great opportunities with this nifty app. Finally, in searching for “myself” i stumbled onto some material I published which has been picked up by WebProNews without realizing it (see http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060111SearchforMapServices.html)! Pretty neat and definitely shows you the power of exponential growth in traffic on the web… aslo confirms the benefits of getting mentioned in the blog or at GISuser.com. Later… go Sea Hawks! Note: it’s always a good idea to google “yourself” to see what’s out there… it’s amazing what you can find;0)