With the cool SXSW event taking place this week in Austin, TX, everyone who’s anyone in social and social location seems to have rolled out updates this week, making your choice for how to check-in to your social media bookmarks even tougher to decide on!
Google sharing data via the Google public data explorer
Continuing with their mandate to index the World’s data, Google has rolled out yet another data sharing resource, the Google public data explorer.
GIS Education – 10 Colleges Offering Suggested Programs in GIS
The GISuser LinkedIn Group is a popular social resource with more than 6,000 participating GIS professionals and growing strong. Recently, a discussion thread has been quite active, resulting in dozens of comments from members. Members have been commenting and providing tips and leads on their favorite, suggested GIS programs at Colleges and Universities around the […]
Feature – GIS Mapping—Campus Style
When Craig Moore switched from the academic side of Virginia Tech in October 2004 to become an engineer for site development in the campus’ Facilities Department, he inherited a GIS that was not easily updated, and maintaining it was a problem. As a result, "it trailed off to nothing," he said.
geoXMF Enterprise GIS Technology Brief – Advancing the State Enterprise GIS Performance Management
Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a key part of overall enterprise IT where high performance requirements are demanded and governed by service level agreements or other types of performance contracts. The need for enterprise GIS performance monitoring and management is a mission-critical need for any CIO and GIS Manager. Software tools are available to […]
Is GPS enabled Social Location and Check in Getting Boring?
An article in Business Week raises some good points and touches on a topic that I’ve been thinking about for some time now… is social location check-in getting old? Like other social techno geeks, I frequently check-in to my social media profiles using some of the fun, mobile services out there including: foursquare, Yelp, GoWalla, […]
10 Awesome GIS and Mapping apps for the iPhone
I recall last year at the ESRI UC when an iPhone was on stage showing a prototype app (think ArcPad on iPhone). It was then that I realized the iPhone platform is going to be BIG in mapping and there’s a ton of opportunity for developers.
Twitter Social Location Check-in Clients and Supported Mobile Devices
There’s a number of ways that one can check-in and share where they are and what they are doing via Twitter (many have facebook connect also)
First Look – Nokia Booklet 3G, unboxing video and image gallery
Those of you in the USA who pop in to Best Buy occasionally, you may have seen a stand showing off the Nokia Booklet 3G… a slick, 3G enabled, SIM slot (AT&T) sporting netbook.
Alleviating Poverty in the Developing World—Leveraging Property Rights with Geospatial Technology
According to renowned economist Hernando de Soto, the inability of persons worldwide to gain formal recognition of their real property rights is a major stumbling block to alleviating poverty.