Google Makes a Game of Maps
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Spatially Adjusted Geospatial Technology , Web Mapping and Spatial Services RSS Blog Colophon Contact Archives Google Makes a Game of Maps Apr 30 th 2012 Comments Yesterday Google released their game based on the Google Maps API and WebGL Note to Safari users , you’ll have to enable WebGL through the Develop menu to get it to work Basically you use your mouse to tilt a 3D cube and have a ball travel down the transportation networks road , trails , subways , etc Since we in GIS all know about topology in these networks , the game isn’t as hard as you might expect . Still it’s a pretty amazing example of using HTML WebGL for web mapping . Open or not , the Google Maps API clearly is well ahead of others . If you can stomach the licensing , you’ll continue to have access to tools that other
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Account Login How it Works Pricing Docs Get Help Blog International Space Apps Challenge is Out of This World April 26th , 2012 by cmoe Space Apps Challenge San Francisco with Astro_Ron The International Space Apps Challenge was held this past weekend for the first time in 17 countries and 25 cities with over 2,000 developers participating to work on 71 different . challenges Tropo was a sponsor and I was fortunate enough to participate in the codethon with members of NASA including Astronaut Ron Garan Chief Information Officer Linda Y . Cureton and Kristen Painting Project Manager for the NASA Open Government Initiative all in attendance at TechShop San Francisco with great . enthusiasm Despite the abnormally warm San Francisco weather , developers kicked off the weekend presenting their
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Voxeo Talks A view inside Voxeo Upcoming Webinar : Using Personalized Self-Service To Deliver a Better Customer Experience NPS Survey Results Translate into Unparalleled Customer Obsession Initiatives April 25th , 2012 by Karen Phillips Tweet At Voxeo , we take our Net Promoter Score NPS survey results seriously because it’s like receiving a grade directly from our customers . Voxeo’s overall NPS score , which we’re proud to report was the highest in our industry in 2011, was a result of feedback from individuals like executive decision makers and budget owners to developers and users . We’re also attuned to our transactional score , which is derived from our ticketing system . It tells us on a daily basis how we’re doing from a customer support perspective . Last year we averaged 80
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It's here The OpenStack Conference Design Summit is happening now Details Registration Open Stack Home Projects User Stories Community Blog Wiki Documentation OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 April 16-20, 2012, San Francisco , California April 16, 17, 18 : Design Summit April 19 20 : Conference Design : Summit Mon , Tues , Wed For OpenStack Developers : Conference Thurs Fri For Users , Vendors , CIOs , Developers Register Design Summit Conference San Francisco 2012 Overview Dates Location Sessions Speakers Register Sponsors Event FAQ Our Headline Sponsors Event Organizer Join Us In San Francisco One week , two OpenStack : events For active OpenStack developers gather to plan the next release at the Design Summit , April 16-18 For : Everyone attend the OpenStack Conference , April 19 20 The
Wow, what an awesome event that the Railsberry team put on last week in Krakow, Poland! It’s difficult to describe in words the attention to detail and coordination by the Applicake and Future Simple crews put into making this a truly memorable event. The Railsberry team put together some awesome videos as well such as [...]
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Account Login How it Works Pricing Docs Get Help Blog Philly Tech Week and the News Innovation Hackathon April 23rd , 2012 by Adam Kalsey Once again , Tropo will be in Philadelphia attending Philly Tech Week events and presenting the Hackathon at BarCamp News Innovation BCNI Tropo’s sponsoring the Media and Transparency Track at Tech Week , and we’re looking forward to a great week of events . From robotics to open government to startups to interactive art , there’s a little something for everyone . Heck , there’s even some lock picking . workshops On Friday night , Tropo will have a table at the Signature Event so be sure and stop by and say hello . Then on Saturday , come hack the news at the BarCamp hackathon We’re going to be helping development teams create tools to help improve how
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Apache Hadoop and Pig provide excellent tools for extracting and analyzing data from very large Web logs.
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On the Speech Technology Blog yesterday, an article popped up entitled “Offbeat Clients Need IVR Too.” The author, Allison Smith, is a well-known IVR voice, and she discussed some of her more interesting IVR voice-over projects. An example: I voiced an entire IVR system for a dog (“If you are one of Scout’s friends from [...]
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An interesting set of articles came out over the past few weeks that look at the future direction of ERP and supply chain management. While these two solutions spaces are not the same, there is an overlap—in terms of functionality and also because the big ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle have both developed supply [...]
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