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Florida Home 87: 2008-10-25 »

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about  Bella Terra in Royal Palm Beach.
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links for 2008-10-25 »

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)

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links for 2008-10-23 »

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 [...]

Paper View Monday: Duluth News Tribune »

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.

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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 87 »

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Florida Home 86: 2008-10-18 »

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Jonathan’s Landing in Jupiter.
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How Microsofties and Googlers visit Hartnett headquarters »

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 [...]

September 2008 stats report »

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 [...]

That right there is a map labeling fail »

A totally unaltered screengrab from Microsoft’s Live Search Maps. Seriously, click the picture to see for yourself. Check out Ryan Pitts’ corrected version, too.

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links for 2008-10-15 »

Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API - Open
"The initial version of the Campaign Finance API offers overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. In addition, the API supports a contributor name search using any of the following parameters: first name, last name and ZIP [...]