I was on my way to grab some lunch today when this guy caught my attention. He was handing out cards for New York Dolls (which claimed they had Best Lunch around City Hall), and I realized I had a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one proverbial stone: Lunch at NewYorkDolls, and a chance [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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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 [...]