ElPasoBurgers.com? LaJollaShoresFishTacos.com? MiddlesexPizza.com? Go to any of these domains and they won’t exist. Well, they might after the web crawlers get a hold of my blog post; but, at the time of authoring this blog they don’t. How did I find them? No, not senseless hacking away at the GoDaddy’s web site. I used their [...]
One of the most interesting things going on today on the Internet is the notion of the real time web. The idea of accessing data in real time has been an elusive goal in the world of search. Web indexes in search engines update at pretty amazing rates, given what it takes to crawl the [...]
Several months ago, a caller to the radio show I host with my father asked our advice on his wife’s plan to take their 16-year-old daughter to Paris. He wasn’t interested in which sights to see, or which hotel to stay in. Instead, he questioned whether the trip itself was a wise move. Seeing Paris, [...]
I am at the GEOINT 2009 conference in San Antonio, Texas, extolling the virtues of Bing Maps and the Virtual Earth Server to the geospatial intelligence crowd. “The Virtual Earth WHAT?” you may ask. Microsoft’s geospatial subsidiary, Vexcel Corporation, offers an scalable standalone appliance solution that includes the Bing Maps basemap imagery, geocoding, map control and APIs [...]
Watch short videos featuring two “Will Code for Green” contest winners, who introduce their innovations based on the Bing API. Patrick Colin McGraw discusses his winning entry, GreenZig.com — a site that illustrates energy-saving costs he developed with the Bing API. And Ed McConnell describes his winning entry, the Climate Times Help Engine.
Video: Save [...]
