TechCrunch reports that Google is in negotiations to buy Yelp. Makes perfect sense. Google is ready to make an assault on local with its Place Pages and QR codes on local establishments and augmented maps and directions and mobile…. This turf was newspapers’ and phone companies’ to lose and [...]
Since then, it has been used to map [...]
In July 2009, The Media Consortium published Tony Deifell's The Big Thaw -- Charting a New Future for Journalism. The comprehensive review not only examines the current state of journalism, but also maps out potential ways the media can adapt for the future.
Written in three volumes ("Dissonance and Opportunity,"' [...]
Just listened to a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey, Inventor, Founder & Chairman, Twitter. A few interesting insights:
Q:How did you invent Twitter?
A: “It took a long time. I’ve always been fascinated with how cities work, fell in love with maps, obsessing with [...]
As little as a year ago Google Maps had no geographic information about San Javier La Loma, a small working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Medellín where the ConVerGentes group of the HiperBarrio citizen journalism project is based. Some progress has been made, but as you can [...]
The new Bing Maps geotargets Twitter tweets.
I spent Wednesday at the Supernova conference in San Francisco, which has morphed over the years from [...]
