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Google Maps 5.0 for Android

nicola — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:59:56 +0000

Explore the world in 3D with Google Maps 5.0 for Android. Now, you can tilt, rotate, zoom smoothly, and enter compass mode to orient yourself in the world with Google Maps.

You’ll also get better offline reliability for Maps if you lose your Internet connection.

You’ll be able to continue viewing the map around the places you use Maps the most, and Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will automatically reroute you offline.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Web Timeline

nicola — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:04:11 +0000

A simple timeline, just to remember what happend few years ago…

1994
- www protocols
1995
- ebay
1996
- Netscape and Microsoft war
1997
- Someone buys .com domains for 150.000 dollars!
1998
- Open Diary, the first blog platform
1999
- Napster
2000
- Paypal
2001
- Napster is closed
2002
- Friendster, the first social network
2003
- Wikipedia
2004
- Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo
2005
- YouTube
2006
- Wen 2.0 becomes a common word
2007
- Twitter
2008
- Obama, the 2.0 election
2009
- Pirate Bay on trial

And for something more, read the following article: “Fifteen years of the web” on BBC News

Ipoki – GPS-based social network

nicola — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:55:36 +0000

Ipoki is a GPS-based social network that allows people to share geolocation data using a small application installed in their mobile devices.

With Ipoki you can track the position in Google Maps of all our friends, and:

Google Earth integration: You can follow in Google Earth in realtime.
Flickr: Keep your tracks in Ipoki and upload your photos in Flicker. Now you can geolocate all your Flickr photos from Ipoki just with one click!
Social capabilities: See the location of random people, list of friends, invite friends from ipoki.com, manage your privacy, customize your picture, include tags.
Communication: registered users can post comments to the map of other users and they can send responses from Ipoki plug-in in realtime.
Embed your map with your real-time location in your Blog or any other site.
Easily share your real-time location in the Internet directly with your Ipoki URL (http:www.ipoki.com/maps/username ).
Ipoki API for developers to send and retreive users’ location.

Website: http://www.ipoki.com

2008 Web Trend Map

nikkey — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:55:47 +0000

This time we can see almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites pinned down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, Information Architect Japan enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0.
What’s New?
All the lines are new and they laid the tracks in perspective, but they kept the look, feel, and story line consistent with Version 1 and 2.

Plenty of insider jokes, ironic hints, and sarcasm are included

Predictions for 2008

The short version: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and eBay open-up, change the economics of online property, Microsoft starts panicking and everbody fights against everybody in one big battle.

Download the Web Trend Map 2008 from the Information Architect Japan website
Have a look at the map last year: Web Trend Map 2007

Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

nikkey — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:42:36 +0000

The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. We have done it again – and better. Upon popular demand – here is iA’s next Web Trend Map:

Download it:

The author: iA is a strategic design agency in Tokyo, Japan.

Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps

nikkey — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:53:53 +0000

Google Maps do not display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.

Looking up an address in Google Maps will center the map on that address if it was found. Because this trick provides the latitude and longitude of the center of the map, moving the map around manually after that will change the center position and this technique will not work accurately.

When the location you want is in the center of the map, copy and paste this code into the location bar of your browser and press enter:

javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

A little dialog box will pop up displaying the coordinates which can be copied and pasted for use elsewhere. This code can be bookmarked and then used in the future by selecting the bookmark.

Thanks to Tech-Recipes Get Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps