Year: 2006

Flickr has been geo’d

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date August 30, 2006

Flickr has introduced a new geo mapping service where you can drag your photos to a map (or provide longitude and latitude) and it will geotag the photos for you. The site has also added new search facilities that incorporates this capability. Millions have geotagged their photo, including 1.1 million photos of his cat from Danny Ayers (who, we think, we hope, was joking).

I had some questions out at the blog and the developer group and Stewart B. from Flickr was kind enough to respond in detail. I’m on deadline with the book (past really), but as soon as I get caught up, I want to try out a few things and then I’ll have a long writeup over at ScriptTeaser. Or maybe the new photo site.

Just a reminder, you can subscribe to all my stuff through Planet Powers.

Technology

Dried apples

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date August 30, 2006

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

John Dvorak writes on the possibility of a Sun/Apple merger now that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, has joined the Apple Board. I must admit to scratching my head, and going ‘huh’ on that one. Apple + Google = Sun?

If this does occur, I wouldn’t expect the customers to benefit. All three companies are SillyValley-based (a strike against in my book), indifferent to freedom of speech and protection against censorship if it impacts their bottom line, and arrogant to boot. Three wrongs won’t make a right.

Weblogging

Wag the Valley

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date August 30, 2006

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Geez, ValleyWag has been good lately.

Six Effects of Eric Schmidt Joining Apple’s Board, including Cloud of Smug.

The pointer to the great story about half.com, Oregon.

Pointing to a disappointing but telling photo from the Women 2.0 pool party. It’s nice to have a visual to go with my words when I write about the new Web 2.0 and women.

The best FOOCamp Poll ever.

Diversity

Unequal and poor

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date August 30, 2006

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Two excellent from Sour Duck:

21st Century Employment: For Many it’s all work, no benefits which is disturbingly true.

Links to stories related to August 26, Women’s Equality Day. I don’t, and won’t, celebrate any holiday which promotes the belief that women are ‘equal’. The day celebrates women getting the vote in the United States, but that doesn’t mean we’ve achieved equality.

Photography

Cool baby

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date August 30, 2006

Today dawned unseasonably cool, which meant wonderfully comfortable. I grabbed my camera and headed to the zoo to meet the new baby elephant, Maliha, a name that supposedly means “strong” and “beautiful”.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in the midst of a group in as good a mood as the those who were at the zoo today. I stopped to look at some pink flowers, and a mother with her two small kids stopped and said she thought they were lilacs. At the elephant compound, mothers and fathers were trying to make a path through their kids so that I could get closer to take photos–even going so far as to point out where the baby was, and did I catch it doing such and such?

I think it was the cooler weather–it really was an awful summer. I also think it’s my miracle 70-200 mm vr lens. People are friendlier and more accommodating when I use the Big Lens. I don’t mind it; in fact, I like it. It’s really nice to chat with a group of people, as we look at a baby elephant romping about or another elephant rocking from stress because the weather is changing.