Around the 5 boroughs there are an increasing number of Living Walls beginning to sprout up, giving a more literal meaning to the phrase urban jungle . This technique of building construction is said to improve thermal efficiency,  increase air quality, and improve the overall visual aesthetic of the design. Most of these are pre-grown [...]

At 7am this morning the water started flowing, and from now till October you can see it in 4 different locations around lower Manhattan . The New York City Waterfalls is a collaboration by artist Olafur Eliasson  and the Public Art Fund, and was pulled off with the support of a long list of City, State, and [...]

The GIS old guard gave a collective shudder this morning, as Google inched one step closer towards traditional GIS capabilities: introducing Google Map Maker.  While some folks hardly looked up from their koolaid, i decided to set mine down and kick the tires a bit. As someone who’s run the gauntlet of clunky feature editing [...]

Plazes posted some big news this morning,  announcing an agreement for their acquisition by Nokia .

Based in Berlin, Plazes started out strong in 2005 as an early LBS social networking concept. While European adoption was far greater than US audiences, the general spotlight on it’s value seems to have shifted over the last year to [...]

As i was preparing to eat my own body-weight in lobster last night, i happened to be streaming some video of the lobster boats in the Camden harbor. Afterwords as i was viewing the video (buttery fingers gliding across the keyboard) , i happened to notice a new feature in the Qik interface ‘Add to [...]

Thanks to Damian Spain’s recent photos of the Google StreetView car getting pulled over, we’ve all had a good laugh at some poor driver’s expense. But, taking a closer look at the sensor array mounted on the vehicle we also gain some new insight into the evolving immersive video capture method Google is using.

Notice the [...]

Social Networking for our Stuff? While that’s still a bit of a stretch,  a new protocol implementation hit the street today that could definitely make that concept a reality. C02 sensor in Barstow, meet cell-phone in Bangalore.
At long last, OpenSpime released their first developer library today along with the launch of their new Developer [...]

Dear N95,
First off, it’s not you. I’ve met someone else, who up until today didn’t do everything i needed. But now, i think I’m done fooling around with you, i’m leaving you for my iPhone.
We’ve had some good times… you know you’ve always held my attention like some Upper East Side socialite, sexy, exclusive, refined…. [...]

Gas prices ruining your dream of driving to exotic Newark NJ this summer, well today’s your lucky day. You can thank Google, who announced this morning a HUGE release of new imagery available via Street View, 37 new areas, 15 updated/expanded areas, and 10 new parks. Yes, you too can take in the awe and spectacle [...]

For a guy that shoots 90% of his video with an N95, i’m far from a day to day frame puller. But, like most gadget-obsessed techies, i’ve lusted over the Red One since the day i saw it’s first glossy prototype rendering.  I finally got the chance to check it out in person this weekend, [...]