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Jesse from the Pink Cake Box sent me a screen shot of Google testing a different form of Google Sitelinks. Instead of showing Google Sitelinks under a search listing, Google was showing relevant blog posts from her blog. read more »
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"Google Operating System reports that Google Maps is testing out walking directions in some locations. I was personally not able to replicate the walking directions, but Ionut has a screen capture as proof." read more »
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Another 3D Digital Globe (U.S. imagery only along with a number of info layers) that has been available for some time as a plug-in for Windows is from SkylineGlobe.com.

http://www.skylineglobe.com

It utilizes Skyline's TerraExplorer technology read more »
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Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be read more »
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Here are a few more images from NOAA.

#1
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCnargis123_MTL.jpg

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http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCnargis123_MT.jpg

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http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCmargis122_GJL.jpg

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On a related note, we've posted the full text of the complaint on ResourceShelf. It's a 12 page; PDF file.

http://tinyurl.com/4lsatk read more »
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A new layer for Google Earth.

Details and URLs here:
http://tinyurl.com/4uan4p read more »
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If you're looking now, today, for street-level imagery for major cities in France and Spain, PagesJuanes has offered this content (and maps) for several years.

In this post we link to PagesJuanes and a few other street-level services.

http:/ read more »
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On a related note, Virtual Earth from MS added 42+ terabytes of new/updated imagery in the past week or so. Part of the new content includes Bird's Eye imagery.
This page lists it all.
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/03/25/new-im read more »
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"Google's rolled out a new tool at Google Webmaster Central, a robots.txt generator. It's designed to allow site owners to easily create a robots.txt file, one of the two main ways (along with the meta robots tag) to prevent search engines from inde read more »
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"If New York Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has his way Web companies that track a user's online behavior in order to target them ads would be breaking the law. Brodsky recently drafted a bill that would require Web advertising companies, such as AOL, read more »
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A brief article from The Guardian reporting that the BBC is in talks with Blinkx to power video search for the iPlayer on the Beeb web site. read more »
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From the article:

"Online professional network LinkedIn Corp. on Friday launched a new company profiles feature.

Mountain View-based LinkedIn said the profiles combine network information with a company's description, key industry statistics, read more »
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New online is the SI Vault that contains the complete full text of the magazine (and web site) back 53 years. It also includes thousands of images and all covers. It's full text searchable and search results can be refined by date. Access to databas read more »
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The FCC announced the winners of the wireless spectrum license auction today.

Verizon was the big winner.

Google, who was one of the bidders, did not win any licenses. read more »
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Greg Sterling writes, "Google is now reporting that it is seeing a rapid up tick in mobile Internet search and usage on several platforms. According to an interview with Reuters, Google mobile product manager Matt Waddell said, 'We have very much hi read more »
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Barry:
If you or others are interested, the full text (PowerPoint slides) of the investor presentation can be found here.
http://digbig.com/4wppe read more »
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Another place on the web that offers a service similar to Google Sky (web-based) is http://sky-map.org/ and/or http://wikisky.org.

Also, coming sometime this Spring will be the World Wide Telescope (from Microsoft) that you can learn more about read more »
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In this post we mention how several police and ems services offer real time data on the web including one service that mashes-up Seattle EMS and Fire Data with Google Maps. It's been around for some time.
http://tinyurl.com/2fu7na

For more real read more »
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Sounds like a job for media librarians who catalog (with metadata) video, audio and other multimedia material each day.

Remember, a movie like The Breakfast Club and tens of thousands more have been cataloged by many libraries and can be found ( read more »
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Barry points to some new imagery on Google Earth of Spain.

Don't forget that MS Live Maps also has both aerial and "Bird's Eye" imagery for major cities in Spain (and other European countries) for over a year. Here's an example.
http://tinyurl. read more »
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Couldn't been to the first sphinncon evar?
Never mind. It is all covered... read more »
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Greg Sterling reports on using Google Maps and Twitter to monitor Super Tuesday results and other election information.

I'll add that Ask.com has developed "Smart Answers" for all States/Commonwealths having primaries both today and on other dat read more »
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SphinnCon Israel was an exciting event. I am not familiar with the final number of guests, but for my eyes it seemed very similar to ~200 SE’ enthusiasts mingling, networking, debating, eating, drinking etc.

In a way, it reminded me my first SES read more »
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Interesting discussion about potential brand strategies for Microsoft to adopt if acquisition of Yahoo were to go ahead. In a nut shell, go for a Google look front page or stick to the bulky portals. What do you all think would be best? read more »
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