William M. Hartnett

New Birds Eye and 3D cities in Virtual Earth. Portugal, Italy, and Austria get big updates - Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Tons of new oblique coverage, particularly in Europe.
(tags: mapping virtual-earth birdseye)

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I’m in Houston at the CAR Conference and, as usual at these conferences (recent sites: Cleveland, Newark, etc.), I’m loving the view from my room. Consider this admittedly low-quality shot from my phone:

Two more pictures for my amusement, and possibly yours. Both were ads in the sports section of today’s Houston Chronicle, and both convey [...]

Last week’s imagery update in Google Earth was just rolled out in Google Maps, reports Google Maps Mania. The update includes Martin County, which is the first time in, without exaggeration, 83 years that Google has brought new aerial imagery to my area down in southeast Florida. See the full list of updates at the [...]

I’m relocating to Houston through this weekend for the IRE/NICAR computer-assisted reporting conference. Maybe I’ll be posting, maybe I won’t. What’s it to you, anyway? In the meantime, have a look at this trippy photo of the Houston skyline by Flickr user telwink.

Did I just blow your mind?

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Google webmaster tools - IHT.com Developer Blog
Too-long video box temporarily gets the IHT booted from Google News. “There is an important lesson in this for all product development people out there and that is this: just because you can does not mean that you should.”
(tags: google-news iht web-development newspaper.com)

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I’ll be off to Houston on Wednesday for the IRE/NICAR computer-assisted reporting conference, so here’s the Houston Chronicle in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Readers who also will be at the conference are invited to track me down there, though I can’t guarantee I’ll be willing to talk about anything other than cats. Also, I’ll be in [...]

That’s the new fella on top of my pile o’ notebooks, making the PCs (one defunct, one semi-defunct, one fully, uh, funct) look bad. Missing from the family portrait is a PowerBook G4, also funct.

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GT-R Waiting Game About to End - New York Times
“The anxiously awaited Nissan GT-R may be the first car whose reputation was forged primarily in the virtual world.” Oh, the hours I’ve squandered playing the various incarnations of Gran Turismo over the years.
(tags: auto gt-r nissan nyt)

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Neighborhood of the week is Sailfish Point, an exclusive oceanfront enclave in Martin County where the homes are priced up to $24 million.
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