GeoWeb 2008 conference recording of presentations, including Google's Michael Jones' keynote
From the cool GeoWeb event taking place in Vancouver this week, the organizers have generously archived recordings of some of the presentations... enjoy...
Michael Jones, Google Earth
Alex Miller, ESRI
Michael Kay, Saxonica
Kimon Onuma, Onuma Inc.
Source: http://gisuser.blogspot.com/2008/07/geoweb-2008-conference-recording-of.html
lørdag den 26. juli 2008
ESRI UC 2008 Q&A
Resultatet af ESRIs UC konference Q&A er kommet.
The results of ESRIs UC conference Q&A is here.
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We appreciate the strong response to our conference questionnaire. It's quite lengthy and we value the time you spent answering our questions. Your input gives us insight into your interests and the direction you would like us to take. We have already made a number of strategic decisions based on your comments and we will work aggressively to be both responsible and responsive to your suggestions. I urge you to read our responses to your questions before arriving at the conference.
Source: http://events.esri.com/uc/QandA/index.cfm?ConferenceID=85D7FF7F-1422-2413-199D382F1109DE0A#222
The results of ESRIs UC conference Q&A is here.
/Sik
We appreciate the strong response to our conference questionnaire. It's quite lengthy and we value the time you spent answering our questions. Your input gives us insight into your interests and the direction you would like us to take. We have already made a number of strategic decisions based on your comments and we will work aggressively to be both responsible and responsive to your suggestions. I urge you to read our responses to your questions before arriving at the conference.
Source: http://events.esri.com/uc/QandA/index.cfm?ConferenceID=85D7FF7F-1422-2413-199D382F1109DE0A#222
fredag den 25. juli 2008
Google opens its templating technology
Written by Mike Gunderloy - Jul. 24, 2008
Google is on a roll. Hot on the heels of releasing its internal Protocol Buffers data interchange format, it has open-sourced Google XML Pages (GXP). Though the project page reports this as version 0.2 beta, don't be fooled: according to a presentation about the technology, this is the templating language behind AdWords, Blogger, Google Reader, Google Analytics, and other properties.
As it currently exists, the GXP technology is firmly tied to Java, although a C++ code generator is in the works (and the existing code is included in the open source download). Now, if you're building web sites with Java backing, especially within the enterprise, the odds are pretty good that you're currently using JSP. Given the number of tools and frameworks that support JSP, why should you consider switching?
The first obvious reason is that this is clearly proven technology: you have to assume that if Google has put this code into major production, it works. But beyond that, GXP implements a number of useful and interesting features. My favorite is automatic escaping and quoting of content: using GXP automatically protects you against a huge range of cross-site scripting attacks. Another nice feature is validation (according to document type) of the content you include. For example, in an HTML document, GXP's compiler will flag things like unknown and misused elements and attributes.
Other key differentiators of GXP include built-in space collapsing, well-designed modularization, and built-in internationalization support.
Despite the attractiveness of its design, though, tackling GXP at this point is definitely a task for early adopters. That's because the documentation varies from "sketchy" to "nonexistent." The authors have promised to remedy this, but for now, reading the source code is your best bet. A good place to start is with the contents of the java/test/com/google/gxp folder - the unit tests will give you a strong sense of what markup you can pass to GXP, and what the results will be.
Source: http://ostatic.com/169539-blog/google-opens-its-templating-technology
Google is on a roll. Hot on the heels of releasing its internal Protocol Buffers data interchange format, it has open-sourced Google XML Pages (GXP). Though the project page reports this as version 0.2 beta, don't be fooled: according to a presentation about the technology, this is the templating language behind AdWords, Blogger, Google Reader, Google Analytics, and other properties.
As it currently exists, the GXP technology is firmly tied to Java, although a C++ code generator is in the works (and the existing code is included in the open source download). Now, if you're building web sites with Java backing, especially within the enterprise, the odds are pretty good that you're currently using JSP. Given the number of tools and frameworks that support JSP, why should you consider switching?
The first obvious reason is that this is clearly proven technology: you have to assume that if Google has put this code into major production, it works. But beyond that, GXP implements a number of useful and interesting features. My favorite is automatic escaping and quoting of content: using GXP automatically protects you against a huge range of cross-site scripting attacks. Another nice feature is validation (according to document type) of the content you include. For example, in an HTML document, GXP's compiler will flag things like unknown and misused elements and attributes.
Other key differentiators of GXP include built-in space collapsing, well-designed modularization, and built-in internationalization support.
Despite the attractiveness of its design, though, tackling GXP at this point is definitely a task for early adopters. That's because the documentation varies from "sketchy" to "nonexistent." The authors have promised to remedy this, but for now, reading the source code is your best bet. A good place to start is with the contents of the java/test/com/google/gxp folder - the unit tests will give you a strong sense of what markup you can pass to GXP, and what the results will be.
Source: http://ostatic.com/169539-blog/google-opens-its-templating-technology
Soon on my way to UC 2008
Om en uge sidder jeg i flyet på vej til ESRIs Internationale brugerkonference i San Diego. Et sted mellem 12 og 14 tusind deltagere kommer fra hele kloden for at høre seneste nyt fra ESRI. Det er 5. gang jeg tager af sted og det er hver gang med stor spænding at jeg ser frem til konferencen. Udbudet af sessions er som sædvanlig overvældende og man må med det samme indse at man får ikke det hele med.
Traditionen tro inviterer Informi på sejltur for alle danske deltagere og et par internationel gæster. Vi ses!
In one weeks time I will be sitting in the plane on my way to ESRIs International User Conference in San Diego. Some where between 12 to 14 thousand participants from all over the world will be joining to see and hear the lastest from ESRI. It is my 5th time going and as always I do look forward to the conference with great anticipation. The number of sessions is as usual tremendeous and you won't be able to get it all.
True to tradition Informi (the Danish ESRI distributor) has invited all Danish participants and a couple of international guests as well. See you there!
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Microsoft trueSpace: Free Alternative to 3ds Max, Google Sketchup
Skab din egen virtuelle verden - gratis
Create your own virtual reality - for free
/Sik
trueSpace is a 3D modeling and animation software for Windows that lets you create realistic 3D scenes from scratch, walk-throughs, games, etc. You can also import characters created in other software like AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
trueSpace used to sell for $600 but then Microsoft acquired the company and released trueSpace as a free download probably in response to SketchUp that’s owned by Google.
The idea is to let users create building and landscapes for Virtual Earth just like one can use SketchUp to create 3D models for Google Earth (SketchUp review).
If you are from the education community, you’ll especially love trueSpace for simulations.
Like with any other 3D authoring software, there’s a steep learning curve involved with trueSpace but if you are looking for a good alternative to 3DS Max or Blender, Microsoft trueSpace is available at a price that may be hard to beat.
Source: http://www.labnol.org/software/microsoft-truespace-free-alternative-3dsmax-sketchup/3965/
Create your own virtual reality - for free
/Sik
trueSpace is a 3D modeling and animation software for Windows that lets you create realistic 3D scenes from scratch, walk-throughs, games, etc. You can also import characters created in other software like AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
trueSpace used to sell for $600 but then Microsoft acquired the company and released trueSpace as a free download probably in response to SketchUp that’s owned by Google.
The idea is to let users create building and landscapes for Virtual Earth just like one can use SketchUp to create 3D models for Google Earth (SketchUp review).
If you are from the education community, you’ll especially love trueSpace for simulations.
Like with any other 3D authoring software, there’s a steep learning curve involved with trueSpace but if you are looking for a good alternative to 3DS Max or Blender, Microsoft trueSpace is available at a price that may be hard to beat.
Source: http://www.labnol.org/software/microsoft-truespace-free-alternative-3dsmax-sketchup/3965/
We knew the web was big...
Information er kun noget værd hvis man kan finde den, få fat i den og bruge den. Hvad Google har gjort og stadig gør er intet mindre end fantastisk.
Information is only of any value if you can find it, get it, and use it. What Google has achieved and still do is no less than fantastic.
/Sik
We knew the web was big...
7/25/2008 10:12:00 AM
We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.
So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer.
We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.
To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.
As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.
Posted by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, Web Search Infrastructure Team
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
Information is only of any value if you can find it, get it, and use it. What Google has achieved and still do is no less than fantastic.
/Sik
We knew the web was big...
7/25/2008 10:12:00 AM
We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.
So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer.
We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.
To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.
As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.
Posted by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, Web Search Infrastructure Team
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
Google's Wikipedia killer "Knol" is open to everyone
Knol (unit of knowledge) er navnet på den nye tjeneste, som Google er ved at etablere. Det drejer sig om et leksikon, der fokuserer på forfatteren. Google mener, det er en gevinst for brugeren at vide, hvem der har skrevet artiklerne, og det er et at formålene med det nye leksikon.
Hvor Wikipedia er et leksikon, der er centreret om oplysninger, der er redigeret af en gruppe af skiftende sammensætning, og hvor forfatteren – i princippet – er nærmest ligegyldig, så fokuserer Knol på den enkelte forfatter og dennes troværdighed. Det skal altså være synligt hvem, der har skrevet oplysningerne. Det vil være 100 % åbent for alle at skrive – og kommentere artikler. Google vil sørge for at prioritere Knol-siderne over sider fra for eksempel Wikipedia, når brugere søger i Google. Brugere kan også risikere at støde ind i reklamer, for Google vil give penge til forfattere som siger ja til at bringe Googles reklamer.
Endnu er Knol i en testfase, og måske kommer Knol aldrig til at fungere. Foreløbig deltager kun personer, der er blevet inviteret til at være med.
Kilde: http://www.informationsportalen.dk/artikelarkiv/artikler/art2040.htm
Knol (unit of knowledge) is the name of a new service Google has in beta. Knol is an encyclopedia with a strong focus on the author. Google think it advantageous for the user to know who wrote the article.
Wikipedia has primarily focused on the information not so much the authors - principally they aren't important. Knol will put focus on the author and their credibility. It will be 100% open for all to write and comment. Knol-pages will rank higher in Google search than say Wikipedia and you will see Google ads.
Knol is still in beta and perhaps it never will get to work. As of now only invited writers can contribute.
/Sik
Knol is open to everyone
A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.
The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.
The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.
With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!
Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.
We are happy to announce an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's extensive cartoon repository. Cartoons are an effective (and fun) way to make your point, even on the most serious topics.
Everyone knows something. See what people are writing about, then tell the world what you know: knol.google.com
Source:
Hvor Wikipedia er et leksikon, der er centreret om oplysninger, der er redigeret af en gruppe af skiftende sammensætning, og hvor forfatteren – i princippet – er nærmest ligegyldig, så fokuserer Knol på den enkelte forfatter og dennes troværdighed. Det skal altså være synligt hvem, der har skrevet oplysningerne. Det vil være 100 % åbent for alle at skrive – og kommentere artikler. Google vil sørge for at prioritere Knol-siderne over sider fra for eksempel Wikipedia, når brugere søger i Google. Brugere kan også risikere at støde ind i reklamer, for Google vil give penge til forfattere som siger ja til at bringe Googles reklamer.
Endnu er Knol i en testfase, og måske kommer Knol aldrig til at fungere. Foreløbig deltager kun personer, der er blevet inviteret til at være med.
Kilde: http://www.informationsportalen.dk/artikelarkiv/artikler/art2040.htm
Knol (unit of knowledge) is the name of a new service Google has in beta. Knol is an encyclopedia with a strong focus on the author. Google think it advantageous for the user to know who wrote the article.
Wikipedia has primarily focused on the information not so much the authors - principally they aren't important. Knol will put focus on the author and their credibility. It will be 100% open for all to write and comment. Knol-pages will rank higher in Google search than say Wikipedia and you will see Google ads.
Knol is still in beta and perhaps it never will get to work. As of now only invited writers can contribute.
/Sik
Knol is open to everyone
A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.
The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.
The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.
With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!
Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the proceeds of those ad placements.
We are happy to announce an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's extensive cartoon repository. Cartoons are an effective (and fun) way to make your point, even on the most serious topics.
Everyone knows something. See what people are writing about, then tell the world what you know: knol.google.com
Source:
torsdag den 24. juli 2008
Simply Javascript
Simply JavaScript by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams
SitePoint © 2007 (432 pages)
ISBN: 9780980285802
With help from this step-by-step introductory guide, you'll learn how easy it is to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events, and design eye-catching animations.
Få styr på dine kvitteringer!
Hvis dette ikke bliver en success så ved jeg ikke hvad der kan. Jeg har en aftale med at mødes med folkene bag konceptet og jeg ser virkelig frem til at møde dem og høre hvor langt de er nået og om hvad de brygger på for fremtiden. Jeg udtænkte et lignende koncept tilbage i 2006, men jeg er ikke den fødte entreprenør så det er godt at der er andre som er.
If this is not going to be a huge success I don't know what will. I have a meeting appointment with the guys behind eKvittering later today - and I really look forward to learn how they are doing and what they are preparing for the future. Back in 2006 I had similar thought about digitally storing all receipts and added a lot of GIS as well - unfortunately I am not this great entreprenuer kind of guy so I can only applause those who are.
/Sik
Få styr på dine kvitteringer!
Hurtig, sikker og nem opbevaring af dine kvitteringerGlem alt om irriterende små kvitteringer, der bliver væk på et øjeblik - tilmeld dig eKvittering og få styr på dine kvitteringer.
eKvittering er en elektronisk version af din kvittering. Det eneste du skal gøre er at tilmelde dit betalingskort, så sker resten helt automatisk næste gang du handler i en butik med eKvittering, og du vil altid kunne finde dine kvitteringer når du skal bruge dem - hurtigt, sikkert og nemt.
Source: http://www.ekvittering.dk/
If this is not going to be a huge success I don't know what will. I have a meeting appointment with the guys behind eKvittering later today - and I really look forward to learn how they are doing and what they are preparing for the future. Back in 2006 I had similar thought about digitally storing all receipts and added a lot of GIS as well - unfortunately I am not this great entreprenuer kind of guy so I can only applause those who are.
/Sik
Få styr på dine kvitteringer!
Hurtig, sikker og nem opbevaring af dine kvitteringerGlem alt om irriterende små kvitteringer, der bliver væk på et øjeblik - tilmeld dig eKvittering og få styr på dine kvitteringer.
eKvittering er en elektronisk version af din kvittering. Det eneste du skal gøre er at tilmelde dit betalingskort, så sker resten helt automatisk næste gang du handler i en butik med eKvittering, og du vil altid kunne finde dine kvitteringer når du skal bruge dem - hurtigt, sikkert og nemt.
Source: http://www.ekvittering.dk/
eBon
En gammel ide som måske snart bliver virkelighed. Se http://gisdk.blogspot.com/2008/07/f-styr-p-dine-kvitteringer.html
An old idea soon to be real. See http://gisdk.blogspot.com/2008/07/f-styr-p-dine-kvitteringer.html
/Sik
Vil du have bon en med ?
Jeg handler mange gange om ugen i den lokale brugs, det hænder også at jeg tager i Netto, og endelig en sjælden gang forvilder jeg mig ind i Bilka. Op til jul hvor julegaverne skal handles ind, farer jeg rundt i byens mange specialforretninger efter bogen til moster Anna, computerspillet til fætter Frands og ørevarmerne til svigerinden. Ud over det jeg kom efter, varerne altså, så samler jeg også en masse kassebon er med hjem, som for en lang stund fylder i pengepungen, for siden hen for en stor dels vedkommende, at ende deres dage i skraldespanden. Hvis jeg nu gad, så kunne disse bon er blive til et fint budget, hvor der var styr på mængden af indkøbt kolonial, antallet af røde vine og størrelsen på konens kosmetik og anden forskønnelsesindkøb. Men jeg gider ikke, jeg orker det ikke!
Vi bytter med et smil men husk at tage bon en med ...
Det er efterhånden blevet almindeligt at disse endeløse baner af smalt papir også gør det ud for
garantibeviser, og det er derfor vigtigt at man gemmer disse uvurderlige lapper, som dog desværre har det med at falme og helt forsvinde med tiden sammen med garantien.
garantibeviser, og det er derfor vigtigt at man gemmer disse uvurderlige lapper, som dog desværre har det med at falme og helt forsvinde med tiden sammen med garantien.
Kan det ikke gøres smartere?
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