What do Water, Sunshine, and stereos blasting music at Night have in common? Thanks to MIT, not just Spring Break in Florida anymore…

MIT released news today of a “Major Discovery” that could change the way solar energy is collected and stored, making solar energy available at night and splitting water molecules in the process. The idea takes a page out of old mother nature’s book, using a conceptual approach similar to how plants manage to store all that sunlight they convert to energy.

First thoughts on the Wordpress iPhone app…
Like Tom Raftery, I’m writing this post via the app. Setup was ultra-easy, took less than a minute to setup blog integration. Writing screen is quite plain, to add photos you have to save and return to the homescreen…. glorified wordpad interface. I’m assuming that adding links [...]

I recently had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Joel Grossman cover a bunch of work he’s done in recent years, and as usual i was totally blown away!  Using historic maps and methodical research, he’s been able to stitch together a historical snapshot of colonial Manhattan that’s totally shattered the widely accepted geography of [...]

Outside.in has taken another huge step down the path of location based innovation, bringing us one step closer to better connecting content with geo-context; introducing the GeoToolkit.  Launched yesterday, this beta program aims at helping content authors better pinpoint the geographic relevance of their work through a simple online toolset. The core of the [...]

So what do Broadswords, evil temptresses, and GIS have in common? The Governator answers…
Sifting through the transcript of  governor Schwarzenegger’s May keynote address at the Conference on California’s Future:
“… we are moving full steam ahead. A perfect example is, for instance, GIS. GIS is a form of digital mapping technology, kind of like Google Earth [...]

The era of goofy SEO hacks finally comes to an end:Google announced last evening that they are launching some enhanced crawling technology that will have the ability to better index content within Flash. Swf’s have always been a blackhole for SEO, prompting web designers to come up with numerous workarounds for making sure Flash site [...]