William M. Hartnett

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is the Montgomery Advertiser. The following is an absolutely true fact: We’ve never before featured an Alabama newspaper here at Paper View Monday HQ. Unless we have. No way to tell, really, as we don’t keep track. Mash your mouse on the picture below [...]

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about  Bella Terra in Royal Palm Beach.
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Ultra-Wide Screen Virtual Earth 3D – Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Bum-blowing video of Virtual Earth's 3D views as displayer on the 20-foot-wide, 180-degree screen at The Avanced Cognitive Engineering Lab at Carlton University in Ottawa.
(tags: mapping microsoft virtual-earth video omg 3D)

G.M. Merger Talks With Chrysler Said to Intensify – NYTimes.com
"Discussions between General Motors and Chrysler are said to be gaining momentum, as both sides want to reach an agreement within the next two to three weeks."
(tags: auto nyt gm chrysler)

Geocoding … in Reverse! – Google Geo Developers Blog
"A much smaller (but important) percentage of developers [...]

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is the Duluth News Tribune, which is in Minnesota, which is in Canada. Mash your mouse on the picture to map-fiddle.

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Jonathan’s Landing in Jupiter.
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I noticed some visitors on Microsoft corporate networks landing on my post about a little glitch in Live Search Maps and decided to have a look at which browsers and operating systems they used. It goes without saying that I’m not trying to make any broader points here. On the other hand, I just said [...]

I very nearly forgot to post the September site statistics, but not even forgetfulness, laziness and general indifference can stop the pointless review of meaningless statistics here at Hartnett HQ. Probably the only thing of even middling interest is the appearance of Google’s Chrome browser, which was introduced at the beginning of the month and [...]