I can’t decide if this is industrial sabotage or political protest. Either way, I like it.
99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
WiFi hotspots in Brighton (including passwords where required) courtesy of Josh.
The first of the We Tell Stories series is online. It's a clever piece of storytelling using Google Maps to full effect.
Google Maps now provides static (IMG-based) alternatives to the JavaScript API.
The new "you are here" feature on the mobile version of Google Maps looks, as Matt Jones said, "indistinguishable from magic." But it doesn't work on my phone. Grrr...
Ian Lloyd gets search results for curry houses in Swindon from Google Maps to his phone in less than 60 seconds. All thanks to hCard.
There's something very Gibsonesque about this real world mashup of Google Maps and Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
W00t! This is a biggie! Google Maps now returns its listing results in hCard. Now you can do one-click export to your address book (or phone).
This is so so childish but here you go: rude place names on Google Maps.
Track Cindy and Jason on their trip across the country... mashup style.
Google gets behind GeoRSS. This is good. Somewhere, Mikel Maron is doing a little dance.
A mesmerising mashup of Twitter and Google Maps. I could watch this all day.
Gareth has mashed up Google Maps with meatspace geek gatherings in the UK.
Find the antipodes of your location. Remember, most of the world is ocean.
This is an astoundingly brilliant mashup: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps. It's fan-bloody-tastic and remarkably fast for all the data it contains.
Version 2 of Google's Maps API is out. Changes, changes, read all about it.
In all the many mashups out there, Google Maps is probably the most used API (version 2 is out now).
One of the latest in the long line of map mixes is Galker Stalker. It takes user-submitted celebrity sightings and displays them on a map of Manhattan.
Has Nick Denton gone too far this time? George Clooney certainly thinks so. Of course, for a site like Gawker, any publicity is good publicity. Jessica and Jesse are just so excited that George Clooney has noticed their existence.
In less than a week, I — along with the rest of the Brit Pack — will be flying out to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest 2006.
I will be speaking with Aaron. If you fancy learning how to bluff your way in DOM Scripting, swing on by.
The standard of panels looks really good this year. As usual, it’s going to be difficult to choose which ones to attend and which ones to pass up. I remember at last year’s conference, I had the constant feeling that there was probably something really good happening somewhere at every moment and I was missing it… but I was missing it for something equally good. That’s a nice, if somewhat frustrating feeling.
But the panels and presentations are just one part of Southby. The real value of Geekstock is the pressing of the flesh and the meeting of the minds. I met so many wonderful people last year, it was astounding. I mean, by the sheer law of averages, I should have come across at least a few assholes, right? Nope. Salt of the earth, those webby geeks.
I am so looking forward to once again being surrounded by fellow nerds, imbibing Shiner Bock and consuming Texas barbecue. This year is going to be all the more fun for the presence of Jessica.
Instead of posting a list of panels I’m thinking of attending, I thought I’d put together a page of much more useful information: parties I plan on going to. To use the term du jour, I’ve “mashed up” hCalendar with Google Maps and here’s the result:
If you’re going to be in Austin, and just in case you’re wondering where I’m going to be on any given evening, just make use of Austin’s ubiquitous WiFi to pull up that page. I want to make it easy as possible for you to join me for a beer.
Update: After some inspiring banter with Tantek, I’ve added some more microformat goodness to Adactio Austin. The list of parties is now outlined in xoxo and the venues are marked up as hCards.
A handy guide to using a wrapper for the Google Maps API.