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FastCompany.tv has launched and the World Wide Telescope is featured in one of their first episodes. Robert Scoble gets a first hand tour of WWT from co-creators Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay who have more time to go into far more detail than the 6 minute presentation from TED conference last week including [...]
World Wide Telescope - In depth with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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SunDials from Google Earth KML in Birds Eye View
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Over the weekend I saw this impressive Collection of Sundials featured on The Google Earth Blog. After checking out a few I wondered how many of these locations would be covered by Virtual Earth’s Birds eye imagery? Since the Collection of Sundials was represented as a KML file, it was pretty easy to [...]
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New blogs and links in Faves
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Some Favorites housekeeping this weekend. I’ve added a folder for SQL 2008 since there’s now more than 1 link , added some dev blogs, and updated some links that have changed (like Arnaud’s primarily French blog) If you aren’t seeing the Favorites Folders in the right sidebar you are probably on a [...]
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Texas Shredder meets the Mazdas of the Cougar Ace
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Yesterday a friend sent me this amazing article in Wired chronicling the two week effort to right the 55,000 ton Cougar Ace which was floating on its side in the North pacific carrying nearly 5000 cars. The story is really captivating on its own as real life drama (Poseidon Adventure meets Die Hard [...]
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NSF Grant for Geo-Social Networking
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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I’ve talked about the Carbon Project here in the past related to their Developer tools and Gaia viewer. It was nice to see this article in Mass High Tech highlighting their recent National Science Foundation grant to further development of their ((Echo))MyPlace software. Sounds like they are targeting this summer for a wide [...]
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Notre Dame de Reims - A Jumping off point for Explore
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Maps, VE3D, Virtual Earth
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I was just sent this beautiful view of Notre Dame de Reims which was highlighted at Virtual Globetrotting the other day. After rotating around and exploring the building visually I was curious to find out more about it. Whenever you are looking at something in Live Maps the easiest way to learn more [...]
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