I guess I’ve known this was coming (as have many of you), however, when anyone from Google talks people do listen… so think mobile!! This from a report out of the recently held MWC in Barcelona, Spain… Schmidt proclaimed that three unique areas had now converged on the mobile device: computing power, interconnectivity and the cloud: “The phone is where these three all interconnect and you need to get these three waves right if you want to win.” He highlighted Internet phenomenons such as Spotify, Facebook – and Google itself – as leading the cloud concept across both fixed and mobile. “If you don’t use the power of the cloud you will fail,” he said. So, when developing the next release of your web app or web servcie don’t forget to consider the mobile user! See more details
Archives for February 19, 2010
MyMapbook’s Port-au-Prince Street Atlas
A new street atlas to aid international relief efforts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The detailed street maps cover 21 pages of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, a total of over 250 square kilometers (100 square miles). Each page covers 12 square kilometers and is mapped at 1:16,000 (one inch = 1920 ft). Major landmarks, major roads, minor roads and neighborhoods are included on each detailed map page. Looking up streets is easy by using the alphabetical index. The GIS map data used for this atlas was obtained from Open Street Maps, which is the standard map base for Haiti relief efforts. See more details
More Amazing Uses of Augmented Reality (AR)
Myself and many other techno geeks are huge fans and advocates for Augmented Reality (AR) I mane, after all, the potential uses, particularly in 3D visualization apps and services are seemingly endless – already we can use an AR app on iPhone or Android mobile for local search results and viewing historical views and the potential uses for first responders and others are immense. Check out this interesting video showing yet another use for AR – heck, pretty soon we could all repair our own vehicle or even perform emergency surgery! See more in this article on O’reilly Radar