Already in use in Europe and many other parts of the World, NFC is a simple, convenient way to use your mobile device to make payments at select merchants – Nokia devices have supported NFC for some time now. Well now, thanks to Google, the USA is finally being introduced to Near Field Communications, aka. […]
New Belgium Libation Location Map – Find Awesome @NewBelgium Beer near you
Great news for fans of Fat Tire and other awesome New Belgium beers (@newbelgium) … the company has rolled out Libation Location, a Google Maps API driven web service that enables you to locate places where you can get your favorite beer! Using the service, simply enter your location (or where you think you’ll be), […]
NYC crowd map – Crowd sourced damage reports
An interesting crowd-sourced hurricane response initiative in New York – The New York City severe weather crowd map. Built on Google Maps, the service enables the community to report issues related to storm damage and the like. Using the service, the community can report issues like downed trees and power lines, no water, property damage […]
Video Tip – New Google +1 Button Features and +Snippets
New features coming over the next week… From Google, Today we’re launching two new features that make the +1 button more
Google Maps for Android OS + Navigation
Looks like Android users have been treated to a new release of Google Maps Mobile for the Android OS – now including free voice guided navigation – grab the latest release (updated August 16) in the Android Market
Check The Weather in Google Maps
We all know you can easily get directions and even traffic updates via Google maps, well now you can check the weather as well. From the official Google Blog … To add the weather layer, hover over the widget in the upper right corner of Google Maps and select the weather layer from the list […]
Google Mapping Outreach For Non-Profits (Vancouver)
A discussion recently with Mano Marks of Google (gMaps developer evangelist) introduced me to very interesting and potentially innovative event scheduled to take place in Vancouver BC in September. This workshop is intended for Canadian nonprofit technology specialists and those that would like to use google maps and Google Earth solutions and service in their […]
Connect Your Google+ to facebook and Twitter with Agent G
Have you had a chance to mess around with Google+ a bit now? IF so here’s a handy tip that will enable you to post directly within google+ and sync directly to your facebook and Twitter account. A couple of short steps are required, first you’ll need to Add “Agent G” to a circle in […]
Using Google Plus – First Look, features, mobile client and Google + CheckIn
A quick look at Google + – Like many of you, I’ve been banging around with Google +, this after finally receiving an invitation from a colleague. Initially, the biggest question from people was how the heck does one get an invitation. For me, the solution was to simply Tweet and ask.. voila, several invitations […]
Google Earth Builder Serving up data from businesses and government agencies to the World
Some interesting news announced officially today from Google. On the stage at Where2.0 Google’s Marissa Mayer revealed details of Google Earth Builder, enabling users to upload, process and store your geospatial data in the Google cloud. Commercially available in Q3 2011 – The idea is via Google’s cloud supporting all data formats, extracting all relevant […]