I have been holding off on buying the Ocarina application the iPhone despite it’s rise to the number one application as I couldn’t get myself to spend the 99 cents for an unknown application. After seeing Mike Arrington’s post on it this afternoon, I had to download it. The application is spectacular in that it enables users to play any song in any tone and has all of the features of a standard wind instrument (aside of course the lack of a place for air to exit to increase reverberations). I downloaded the application and suddenly got sucked into one...
[This post recently appeared on the new Content Central blog; it's a great look where some of our geospatial data comes from and how organizations can share data with us. -Ed.]Have you ever wondered how your organization could add your geospatial data, such as aerial imagery or places of interest, to Google Maps and Google Earth? Maybe you're using the Google Maps API and want to enrich our basemap with your own data. Or perhaps you'd just like to expand the reach of your organization's investment in GIS (geospatial information systems) by putting this data in places where people in...
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie talked about the company’s vision for the future of computing and the web this morning at the Emerging Technology Conference at MIT. Mundie outlined Microsoft’s plan for a computing future he called the “client + cloud,” which marries computing devices with web-based services. Said Mundie, the platform of the future will combine the Internet (the cloud) with devices (the client) including desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, video game players, appliances, and other web-connected devices. The client + cloud computing platform will be characterized, according to Mundie, by a more humanistic, adaptive, and...
Of course I couldn’t resist not to play a little bit with Skyrails after I saw it at Flowing Data blog. Skyrails is a graph visualization system that was designed with expandability and awesome look in mind. All menus can be programmed in odd-looking, but quite easy to learn language, which helps in writing customized interface to particular data. My quick attempt was to take some sample data from STRING, feed it into Skyrails and see if that makes any sense. My choice was #1 example from STRING main page, which was trpA protein from E. coli K12. The main...
